Reclaiming May Day in London

anarcho | 25.04.2004 19:17 | May Day 2004 | Social Struggles | London

Reclaiming May Day in London -- anarchists on the Trade Union march

Reclaiming May Day in London

May Day was born in the struggle for freedom.
Four anarchists were framed and executed by the
American state for being union organisers and at
the head of the eight hour day strike movement in
Chicago in 1886.

Anarchists in London are organising a bloc on the
London May Day trade union march and rally. This
bloc is a propaganda bloc only. We want to get our
ideas across to our fellow workers and trade unionists.
We are also looking for people we want to hand out
leaflets and sell Freedom on the march.

If you support workers' control of our own organisations
and struggles, think direct action and solidarity are the
only ways to fight and win the class war then come along
and join the Anarchist bloc.

Assemble at Clerkenwell Green at noon on 1st May (nearest
tube Farringdon).

Bring black and red and black flags!

anarcho

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more info...

25.04.2004 23:13

The official site for the TUC demo:

http://www.glatuc.org.uk/mayday.html

repost

SWP must be amused by this one...

26.04.2004 12:39

well, after so many years of accusing the "trots" of falling in behind the "official" trades unions, (the very dullest and most conformist of all left organisations) you now do the same thing. not, we are told, in "support", but to form a propaganda bloc, which is precisely what the "trots" have been doing for ages , with no success i should add.
but WHY no success in this ? to answer, oddly enough, let me point out quite succintly that workers have made a conscious choice to reject socialism and to support capitalism. its undeniably true. most workers know the basic tenets of socialism, as they do capitalism, and thus we have the labour party, dedicated to capitalism (which indeed it always was, and not just just recently with blair and co). cant anarchists at least familiarise themselves with MARXS CONCEPT of the ARISTOCRACY OF LABOUR, because if you pander to the unions, then thats what youre dealing with. im logging off before i switch to auto-rant. *!*!*!*!*!*!

Hollo Lafter

better just stay at home, then

26.04.2004 19:52

firstly, what have the SWP to do with socialism?

secondly, your analysis would suggest we just stay
at home on May Day. Very revolutionary...

thirdly, "cant anarchists at least familiarise themselves
with MARXS CONCEPT of the ARISTOCRACY OF LABOUR, because
if you pander to the unions"

well, we don't need to as Bakunin expressed a similar
analysis on this issue. Also, we are do not "pander to
the unions" -- we are spreading our ideas to ordinary
union members, all of whom are exploited and oppressed
by capitalism. And they known enough to organise as
workers. perhaps by discussing our ideas with them we
can break them from labourism? or is that too much work
for one afternoon?

anarcho
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