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The Other Campaign - don't vote, organise!

The Other Campaign 2010 | 03.04.2010 22:00 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Zapatista | Liverpool | World

A RADICAL, WORKING-CLASS INITIATIVE IN RESPONSE TO PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTIONS…



The Other Campaign 2010 was initiated by Liverpool Solidarity Federation. The aim is to build a loose network of anti-capitalist, libertarian groups and individuals who believe that:

1) politics must be liberated from the rotten influence of politicians and bureaucrats. As individuals we must take back control over of our lives and not allow power to be exercised on our behalf.

2) the anti-working class agenda of our corrupt political elite (such as the imminent wave of public sector cuts) will not be defeated through the ballot box, but on the streets and picket lines.

In response to the inevitably grotesque spectacle of the upcoming General Election campaign in the UK, we will promote ideas including:

• direct action
• working-class anti-fascism
• mutual aid
• solidarity
• non-hierarchical community/workplace activism

To find out more or to add your organisation to the list of sponsors, please email:  theothercampaign@hotmail.co.uk or visit:  http://theothercampaign2010.wordpress.com

:: Everyone participating in the campaign has the right to author leaflets, pamphlets, posters etc. These can be uploaded, shared and critqued on the campaign's Google Group. ::

"The belief in parties is the main reason for the impotence of the working class; therefore we avoid forming a new party—not because we are too few, but because a party is an organization that aims to lead and control the working class. In opposition to this, we maintain that the working class can rise to victory only when it independently attacks its problems and decides its own fate. The workers should not blindly accept the slogans of others, nor of our own groups but must think, act, and decide for themselves." - Anton Pannekoek, 'Party and Class'.

The Other Campaign 2010
- e-mail: theothercampaign@hotmail.co.uk
- Homepage: http://theothercampaign2010.wordpress.com/

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Don't understand

04.04.2010 11:15

Public sector jobs are jobs working for the government. As such they are controlled by the political elite.

anon


@ anon

04.04.2010 15:34

Public service users (i.e. the public) are going to feel the effects of cuts, as well the workers themselves. The cuts won't be stopped through direct action, not by voting for a 'nicer' political party...

Kronstadt1921


Correction

04.04.2010 15:49

/will be stopped through direct action

Kronstadt1921


Vote conservative

04.04.2010 16:44

At least they will do something. Don't throw away your vote.

Voting for no-one will just be that. A big fat nothing.
Happens every year and no one fucking even notices.
Complete waste of time.

don't vote labour


vote labour

04.04.2010 16:52

better to have them in power where every worker can see what rotten bastards they are, than out of power where they can make all the lefty sounding promises that people want to hear. Revolutionaries have more influence in the workers' movement when Labour can't lead it.

disillusioned


@ Toryboy

04.04.2010 17:13

"Voting for no-one will just be that. A big fat nothing.
Happens every year and no one fucking even notices.
Complete waste of time."

Fuck, is Cameron and his Etonian cronies really the best we can do?

The campaign isn't saying 'don't vote, do nothing', it's saying: stop letting politicians/bureaucrats control politics and use direct action to bring about fundamental change, rather than just passively voting for someone different to be corrupted by power.

Kronstadt1921


posting on Liverpool indymedia

04.04.2010 20:56

Stop the bossing around, given enough time and space I can find my own way around here thank you very much :-)

They're all bossy bastards because they're afraid of people like us. People who think for ourselves.

smiler


Vote Libdems

04.04.2010 23:15

Its time we give this party a chance. Labour and the Tories have continually screwed everything up. The libdems have some real good policies and I thing we should give them a chance.

Y


Send a message of no confidence

05.04.2010 11:15

Vote for the most miniscule parties possible.

Even these votes will be registered, such votes sending a message out to the main parties that those main parties have been deprived of those votes, whereas if the main parties had been genuine, totally honest, etc, those miniscule party votes may well have gone to the main political parties.

Francis H. Giles


It's (not) my party...

06.04.2010 13:14

"The libdems have some real good policies and I thing we should give them a chance."

They've been given a chance in places like Liverpool where they control the council. They've done nothing but plough money into the city centre and build lots of new shiny shops and let the council estates rot.

We don't need a 'nicer' party with 'nicer' politicians. We need to stop politicians running our lives and fight for a totally different way of doing things.

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"Vote for the most miniscule parties possible."

That won't make any difference whatsoever. George Galloway got elected as a Respect MP last time and made NO difference at all.

Kronstadt1921


The 6th May 2010

06.04.2010 17:09

Will you be voting for any of them? I might have voted for the local anti-fascist campaigners in the council elections but now I'm expected to give my support to some mainstream party. Bollocks to that.

Do these lying thieving bastards still expect us to prop up their gravy train, and every station on their journey?

smiler


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The usual fucking shite

06.04.2010 18:42

The usual fucking shite from some horrible shitbag who thinks she knows better. But it's us who have to live with it it, you twat!

Phil


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