Text of flyer:

“Capitalism is a social relationship and not a citadel of power. It is starting from this banality that one can deal with the question of summits and counter-summits.”
-Where Is The Festival?

Originating in 1976, the G8 is the annual meeting of the eight most politically powerful countries in the world. Whilst its defendants lavish poetics over the summits intent on discussing the “important global issues of the day”, with the aim to “advance growth and prosperity across the world”, it is clear from the UK coalition government’s statement of priorities that their only intention is to further the wealth of the rich and ruling class.

Focussing on trade, tax and transparency, Cameron’s emphasis on these fundaments of Capitalist mediation show that the only benefactors of this theatre of superpower are those who have made it their work to usurp the activity of the the most oppressed in this society. The media and their extended circle of linguistic specialists continue to bombard us with concepts that are beyond our comprehension, creating a realm of political and economic deities; abstract and intangible to the reality of life upon these streets.

As those who are forced into the vicious cycle of work-consume-work-consume, it is time to physically oppose the farcical ramblings of the political elite. As trade within the EU continues to open, creating greater opportunities for economic and political profit, the fortress of control extends its insidious grasp. With the price of survival growing every day, the bureaucratic welfare-state evermore refusing our existence, digital and visual surveillance expanding its scope, the prison industrial complex growing, and the ‘radical left’ ever more liaising and compromising with the political framework, the only answer to this modern totalitarianism is social revolution.

A number of demonstrations, carnivals and rallies have been planned in opposition to the summit, but their emphasis on these supposed ‘centres’ of wealth and capital only touch the surface. Capitalist relations exist in every production process, commodity, valuation and exchange. They control us from the morning’s alarm to our designated rest time. The price of a drink is our dictated pleasure and the cost of antidepressants the expense of our pain.

It is not necessary to march on West London in order to disrupt the infrastructure of capital, for the rebellion of every day is far more effective. From rent strike, refusal to work and the theft of commodities, to an organised attack on the manifestations of capital, rejection of power’s domination of our lives can come in many

For up-to-date news and reports of actions against the G8 and capital as a whole, both local and international, check out: 325.nostate.net and actforfree.nostate.net