Anti-Capitalism 2005 - Day School
• Iraq - can the insurgency beat America?
Will the phoney elections pacify the resistance or split the country?
• The anticapitalist movement - a new internationalism?
Report back and analysis from delegates to the January 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• What kind of unions for the global workforce?
US union leads call for a radical shake up, but is it radical enough?
• Are women working harder?
Sexism, the double shift and globalisation
• Latin America: the fires in Uncle Sam’s backyard
Are radical movements a threat to US control of Latin America?
• The world economy: boom or stagnation?
Is modern capitalism heading into a new long boom ... or into trouble?
For more info Tel: 020 7820 1363
Sat 5th February
11am – 5pm
Conway Hall,Red Lion Sq,
London WC1
(Nearest tube Holborn)
£3 waged
£1 unwaged
Organised by Workers Power
• Iraq - can the insurgency beat America?
Will the phoney elections pacify the resistance or split the country?
• The anticapitalist movement - a new internationalism?
Report back and analysis from delegates to the January 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• What kind of unions for the global workforce?
US union leads call for a radical shake up, but is it radical enough?
• Are women working harder?
Sexism, the double shift and globalisation
• Latin America: the fires in Uncle Sam’s backyard
Are radical movements a threat to US control of Latin America?
• The world economy: boom or stagnation?
Is modern capitalism heading into a new long boom ... or into trouble?
For more info Tel: 020 7820 1363
Sat 5th February
11am – 5pm
Conway Hall,Red Lion Sq,
London WC1
(Nearest tube Holborn)
£3 waged
£1 unwaged
Organised by Workers Power
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Better Never Than Late.
21.01.2005 01:42
You do still want to take control of the government and state by a coup d'etat, like the SWP, Socialist Party, and a dozen or so other Leninist sects did, as per the Russian Bolshevik revolution, dont you? Or has that gone out the window?
Humphrey
SOCIALISTS in *our* movement??? THIS WILL NOT DO!!
21.01.2005 10:04
I thought only anarchists were allowed to organise this stuff (and only anarchists allowed to attend).
non-aligned
Read our manifesto...
21.01.2005 11:14
(Available online).
squatticus
Every alternative to capitalism has failed!
21.01.2005 11:29
Micheal
Re: Michael
21.01.2005 12:48
I accept that this view may make sense to you but to those who are familiar with anti-capitalist politics you come across as naive, ignorant, and dare I say it not very bright.
Sorry, just letting you know.
If you are totally unfamiliar with revolutionary politics today then by all means it's a good idea to read up on it on websites like this. But try 'lurking' for a bit before you disagree / totally dismiss the entire movement, it's tedious for all of us if you can't offer us an argument that's any more sophisticated or original than the one you gave. I'm afraid I can't be bothered to engage with it this time because I've had this debate so many times before. But I'm sure other readers will be able to explain why you're talking nonsense.
never stop trying
Michael dearest
21.01.2005 14:06
patroniser
irony-(&comedy-)value
21.01.2005 14:38
r u 4 real mikey??
irony-(&comedy-)value
21.01.2005 14:38
r u 4 real mikey??
More remedies for stale thinking...
21.01.2005 14:49
Movement Of Movements (Edited by Tom Mertes).
Change the World Without Taking Power: the meaning of revolution today. (John Holloway)
Also check out New Internationalist magazine to keep abrest with current issues such as WTO / IMF / World Bank / War / GM corporate takeover of the food chain / Bio-piracy / indigenous people / international debt / forced privatisation / the crimes of big business / the arms trade / unions / Palestine / etc...
make capitalism obsolete
Good try
21.01.2005 17:43
The latest "good" idea is some sort of loose Anarchist / Vegan / Anti-capitalist / Anti-Globalisation clap trap that keeps them busy for hours. It mostly consists off empty meanigless protests - US Embassy, Medical Research Labs, MoD etc (you can guess the rest)
The reallity of real life and the success of free market democratic capitalism is not something many of them yet grasp but in time they all realise it. It just takes a while for the less bright ones !
Ho Hum
NICE TRY TO YOU TOO
21.01.2005 20:42
SUCCESS???
Sweatshop labour all over the third world, in conditions of near slavery?
The gap between the rich and the poor growing larger every year?
Hundreds of thousands killed in wars for oil?
The profiteering elite growing fat on the hard work of ordinary people?
HOW THE HELL can any of this be considered "success"?
Success for who???
Does capitalism give you a job you enjoy? (If so you're one of the lucky few!)
Does capitalism foster a sense of community and togetherness? Does it not isolate people and divide them from eachother when they could be fighting together in solidarity to overthrow their dictators or build new non-hierarchical institutions which could by-pass the system and make capital obsolete?
Do people receive the full benefit of their work under capitalism or is it syphoned off to the people at the top of the pyramid?
HOW CAN THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST SYSTEM BE DESCRIBED AS A SUCCESS?
Has it "succeeded" in Africa and Latin America, which have been (and continue to be) plundered for such a long time by the West? I dare say it's been a relative success for the west itself - we've grown rich out of exploited the rest of the world. I don't call that success, I call it injustice.
Again, what are your criteria for success and like I say, SUCCESS FOR WHO?
This system is a failure and it is unfair.
And has it been an ecological success? Has it f*ck - deforestation, climate change, rising sea levels, mass extinction... all in the name of higher and higher profits (which cannot ultimately be sustainable in the long run) for the small majority who milk the system.
How dare you call us thick when you have NO knowledge of our political philosophy at all?
Our so called """latest "good" idea is some sort of loose Anarchist / Vegan / Anti-capitalist / Anti-Globalisation clap trap that keeps them busy for hours and that mostly consists off empty meanigless protests - US Embassy, Medical Research Labs, MoD etc (you can guess the rest)"""
is a well thought out school of thought and method of practice which is fast becoming the most important global world-wide political movement on the planet. Ever.
How are protests at the US Embassy, etc, meaningless? And what about the enormous street battles surrounding summits of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organisation, World Economic Forum, Free Trade Area Of The Americas, G8, and all the rest of them?? They were hardly empty - and as for "meaningless" either you haven't looked very hard at all or you are refusing to see the meaning.
The phrase "clap trap" is a term used to try to rubbish something you don't understand. Or know is true but wish to deny.
You clearly have no understanding whatsoever of what we are protesting about and what we aim to do about it and yet you are only to quick to show of your prejudice and small -mindedness and try to dismiss an entire movement with the wave of your hand.
Trust me, you're making yourself look like an idiot.
Hugh
!
21.01.2005 21:33
Some of them get so excited. It is fun !
Ho Hum
fight the war, fuck the norm
21.01.2005 21:57
LDT
LOL !
22.01.2005 10:44
We, the Middle Class, White, Capitalists rule the world. We have money, power, and privalige. You have this platform to talk to each other !
Type away little boy, type away.
HA HA HA HA HA
Ho Hum
Ho Hum, you couldn't make it up!
22.01.2005 15:00
dinzy
Re: Ho Hum
22.01.2005 21:27
the dude
trolls
23.01.2005 16:24
Krop
Whats the point?
24.01.2005 13:32
db