Radical anti-capitalist Call for #Oct20 TUC demo

anon@indymedia.org (A) | 27.09.2012 12:55 | London

#Oct20. Cut the crap. The problem is Capitalism.

CALL OUT: for a radical anti-capitalist presence on October 20th

The TUC (Trades Union Congress) is organising a mass demonstration in London against spending cuts and austerity. Up to a million workers may take to the streets.

We know an afternoon spent marching through the streets of London will not force the Government to back down. This Government – like any government – has no answers, or solutions. We need to face the real enemy: capitalism.

Capitalism exploits and oppresses the many, for the interests of the few. It is the source of countless hardships. It is the driver for climate change, as natural resources are plundered for profit. Capitalism dictates poverty and austerity.

Over the past 100 years, workers the world over have struggled against capitalism, winning – with greater or lesser degrees of success – a range of “concessions”. In the UK and Europe, for example, workers have won improved wages and working conditions, pensions and the welfare state. Now the elites are trying to claw back these hard-won gains, using the excuse of the financial crisis they caused. But people are resisting: in work places, within communities, on the streets.

The crisis of Capitalism is global. While we are divided and alienated by borders, capitalism moves freely, inflicting its misery world-wide. People across the continents of Africa, Asia, and South America have long lived at the coal face of this destructive system. Cuts and privatisations are imposed upon workers in the Global South to service crippling international debt repayments mis-sold as “poverty alleviation”. Our resistance to capitalism must also be global, linking up strikes, revolts, and solidarity across the world.

The time to join this resistance is now. Hence the call out for a radical presence on the streets of London 20th October. To organise for the day, there will be open meetings held from around 5 October on at the CUTS CAFE (an occupied meeting space in central London opening two weeks prior to 20th October to build resistance to the cuts, and to explore real alternatives to austerity).

For further info contact:
stopg8@riseup.net
https://network23.org/stopg8

WE ARE MANY, THEY ARE FEW, AND WE ARE EVERYWHERE.

signed:

StopG8 – StopG8 formed to prepare a massive anti-capitalist response to the G8 summit being hosted in the Uk in 2013 and help spawn a movement. We hope you’ll join us, starting October 20th.

Smash EDO – is a direct action campaign aimed at closing down the EDO arms factory in Brighton

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ALARM — All London Anarchist Revolutionary Mob

Frack Off

anon@indymedia.org (A)
Original article on IMC London: http://london.indymedia.org/articles/13006

Comments

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Alarm?

27.09.2012 15:48

If that's a bona fide ALARM comment then the @ scene is seriously fucked. But seems like bullshit - no @ group would call for nationalisation and all the other crap in it.

Dirk Straggler

They are many, we are few

27.09.2012 19:47

Thanks for the GCSE rhetoric on the evils of capitalism, but let's be honest about this for a change - the people capitalism oppresses are many, but the people who are willing to actively fight back are few, and our numbers are alot less than the people who're directly involved in imposing capitalism, certainly in the UK at the moment. Unfortunate, but it's a fact.

Because of this our priority must be to build-up our numbers, and that won't be achieved if a bunch of naive activists try to kick-off too early, alienating the broader mass of the general public before our movement's strong enough to have real clout. For the time being our priorities need to remain focussed on actively engaging and retaining the sympathy and involvement of "ordinary" members of the public, not on radical posturing

If you want to know how successful the rhetoric and the campaigning strategies of groups like ALARM have been, just count the number of people who are / were actually in ALARM - maybe 60? - then compare that to the overall population of our capital city. Maybe the kind of tactics used by ALARM aren't the best way to engage the general public after all? Just a thought

To suggest that any demo, let alone a large TUC demo, could ever overthrow the system is just naive - the best we can practically hope to achieve is to send a message to the establishment (and to the rest of society) that the people havn't been cowed into submission, and then take that as a place to build from. The way to do that is to make sure the demo is very well attended, the way to do that is not to go around shouting about Anarchy and overthrowing the State

Bonnie Lass

Ignore the dullards

27.09.2012 22:50

We can change the world without being a boring a-b marching moron not trying to upset ordinary members of the public(whoever they are). To the streets and let's take back our planet from the violent rich fucks who are kiling our planet. No fucking compromise.

acac

ordinary members of the public (whoever they are)

28.09.2012 08:19

i'll tell you who they are - the 59.9 million people who aren't involved in radical politics but who are actually affected by austerity, sherlock

jim g

acac

03.10.2012 21:10

acac = all cats are cool numnuts and if the 59.9 million that are affected by austerity actually got off their arses and took to the streets something may change.

Anon

Probably won't even kick off

11.10.2012 23:17

Probably not even going to kick off (Probably wasn't even the intention), the police will be well on top of it. Also, an anti-capitalist bloc does not necessarily mean 'kicking off', could it possibly mean anti-capitalist politics?

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