The Other Campaign - don't vote, organise!
The Other Campaign 2010 | 03.04.2010 22:00 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Zapatista | Liverpool | World
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'.
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
anon
@ anon
04.04.2010 15:34
Kronstadt1921
Correction
04.04.2010 15:49
Kronstadt1921
Vote conservative
04.04.2010 16:44
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
disillusioned
@ Toryboy
04.04.2010 17:13
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
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
Y
Send a message of no confidence
05.04.2010 11:15
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
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
Do these lying thieving bastards still expect us to prop up their gravy train, and every station on their journey?
smiler
The usual fucking shite
06.04.2010 18:42
Phil
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