Central Bristol, with its thriving street communities and local businesses, is now poised for a massive take over bid by corporate retail. On Gloucester Road, we are to have a Sainsbury liquor store. Tesco, ahead of the pack, has 17 stores in Bristol already, with Cheltenham Road poised to be the 18th. These corporations, plus others of their ilk, have bought up many unused retail properties across the city which are currently lying dormant until they choose to activate them. Tesco in Cheltenham Road is therefore only the tip of an iceberg.
Let's not beat about the bush: supermarkets and corporate retailers operate as colonial occupiers. The ghastly Aztec West in Parkway is like US base 'Camp Enduring Freedom' in Iraq. Not content with an already huge bridgehead/base for corporate capital in the West of England, these stores now charge into the centre of Bristol to search and destroy all local business and community life - and they have been given the legal green light by their puppet collaborators in a (take your pick) LabourorTory government.

Exactly as if they were religious settlers in Palestine's West Bank, the settler stores of Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda et al are busy putting 'facts on the ground' at a phenomenal rate of knots in order to deliberately preempt reactive protest and resistance or any half hearted legal/parliamentary restraints that may come after it's too late.

We face a world on the brink of extinction. Another 5 years of global hijacking by self-seeking banks, world resource robbers and monopoly corporations with their PR 'business partners' in corrupt governments and we are all dead. These are extraordinary times, and as such they call for extraordinary action by ordinary people.

'They made a desert, and they called it a competitive marketplace' para. Tacitus.