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Birmingham Anti-Election Campaign

Russ T Spring | 12.05.2010 16:20 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Birmingham

As is the tradition in Birmingham, every election is met with opposition. With all three main parties offering us cuts in services, privatisation, job losses and wage cuts the message that 'Voting Changes Nothing' was even more self evident. Along many of the arterial routes into Birmingham, anti-election boards were hoisted up lamp posts not only encouraging people not to vote but promoting ongoing resistance to our so-called 'leaders'. Responses from the public as they went up were all positive and with the exception of one set of boards they all stayed up....and might be left up ready for the next election after the Con-Lib pact falls to pieces.








Whilst this election bucked the downward trend in voting turnout the anti-election camp are confident that disillusionment will start to creep back. There is a solid rump of none-voters who are not fooled by TV debates and hype. Added to them we can expect a lot of people who made an extra effort to vote this time, to realise that it was of no benefit to them and will think twice about making the same mistake again. The big challenge is whether or not the no-vote can be converted into an active resistance. With the oncoming cuts sharpening the class struggle, progressive anti-parliamentarians need to up their efforts and try and galvanise the discontent and anger that is sure to be generated.

Russ T Spring
- e-mail: dontvote@riseup.net


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