What kind of nonsense is going on at Occupy London?
Old Fart | 09.12.2011 15:15 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements
Yes, what kind of nonsense is going on at Occupy London? Meeting with UBS and The FSA? Hanging out with The Guardian?
In the US the Occupy movement has been assaulted violently by cops and the local state from pillar to post and subject to vicious intimidation and eviction. In response they continue to re-occupy central locations and to spread the actions to point of immediate conflict such as the ambitious West Coast Port Shutdown on Dec 12th and the amazing 50 city strong re-occupation of foreclosed homes on Dec 6th. They might call this 'sticking it to the man!'.
http://westcoastportshutdown.org/
http://occupywallst.org/article/americans-re-occupy-their-homes/
In London it seems the point of interest is to meet with bankers and hang out with other total waste of spaces such as Polly Toynbee so as to appear fair and well-balanced and engaging with all sections of the political class. And to jolly up to The Guardian too.
http://occupylsx.org/?p=2204
This is truly depressing shit, my friends. It's hardly a new form of politics. It's the same old class ridden politics of the UK for the last 300 years - liberal, sensible, reforming, balanced all the while the class war continues unabated with no concern for such niceties as fair play, a nice chat and a handshake. Austerity is class war. It takes from those who have the least because that's the current way the capitalist class can make it's money, the profits of finance being so fucked up now.
Occupy London G.A can agree a statement that on the one hand calls for banks to be reformed and then further down notes that the problems of inequality are systemic. Yes, that's right, the global financial institutions and government are the system that creates the poverty and violence of capitalism. How do you reform this?
Certainly not by meeting folks from UBS, the FSA, the corporate media and having a nice chat. What a luxury! Maybe the starving masses of Haiti should convene a nice reconciliation meeting between the 5 ruling families of Haiti and the corporate business and themselves and see what is possible.
Here was a good response from the folks of Bhopal to Dow Chemicals and the London Olympics:
http://vastminority.blogspot.com/2011/12/indian-protesters-block-trains-and.html
Maybe they should all sit around a table instead?
http://westcoastportshutdown.org/ http://occupywallst.org/article/americans-re-occupy-their-homes/ In London it seems the point of interest is to meet with bankers and hang out with other total waste of spaces such as Polly Toynbee so as to appear fair and well-balanced and engaging with all sections of the political class. And to jolly up to The Guardian too.
http://occupylsx.org/?p=2204 This is truly depressing shit, my friends. It's hardly a new form of politics. It's the same old class ridden politics of the UK for the last 300 years - liberal, sensible, reforming, balanced all the while the class war continues unabated with no concern for such niceties as fair play, a nice chat and a handshake. Austerity is class war. It takes from those who have the least because that's the current way the capitalist class can make it's money, the profits of finance being so fucked up now.
Occupy London G.A can agree a statement that on the one hand calls for banks to be reformed and then further down notes that the problems of inequality are systemic. Yes, that's right, the global financial institutions and government are the system that creates the poverty and violence of capitalism. How do you reform this?
Certainly not by meeting folks from UBS, the FSA, the corporate media and having a nice chat. What a luxury! Maybe the starving masses of Haiti should convene a nice reconciliation meeting between the 5 ruling families of Haiti and the corporate business and themselves and see what is possible.
Here was a good response from the folks of Bhopal to Dow Chemicals and the London Olympics:
http://vastminority.blogspot.com/2011/12/indian-protesters-block-trains-and.html Maybe they should all sit around a table instead?
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