Crackdown on legitimate protest
anon@indymedia.org (Libertarian) | 26.02.2012 12:55 | London
Daily Hate Mail reports that the government have ordered the police to crackdown on anti workfare protests.
This is in the wake of trotskyist political parties such as the socialist party & SWP jumping on the populist bandwagon as usual & apparently hijacking the fantastic work Boycott Workfare have been doing this past year, informing people of the Mandatory Work Activity, Work Expirence & other work for your benefits schemes. These protests have been non violent direct action on multi million pound profit making companies mandating people to work for free. It seems that the only threat of violence, once again comes from the state & it`s apparatus, the police. It is hoped that the rank & file Police Federation will see sense & refuse to allow it`s members to be stormtroopers for the government & it`s right wing pogrom against vulnerable members of our society. The right to work, a front for the socialist party have jumped on this bandwagon. They also have a front; Defend the right to protest, who have been putting political prisoners safety at risk by publishing names, prisons where held & prison numbers, without prior consent of prisoners. These front organisations, which has been proved many times in the past, jump from one popular protest subject to the next. Not bothering about any damage caused in their wake, all in the intrest of bolstering membership & selling papers.
As far as I`m aware, Boycott Workfare is a grassroots non political campaign without any political mandate or hidden agenda. See www.boycottworkfare.org
anon@indymedia.org (Libertarian)
Original article on IMC London:
http://london.indymedia.org/articles/11785