What we have at present is a collection of disparate groups and campaigns, some local some national. We by no means have an anarchist movement capable of strategic thinking and building momentum at a national level. For this reason anarchists are non-existent to the vast majority of people and opportunity aftrr opportunity to buid momentum is lost.Incapable of initiating any national acton ourselves anarchists wait hopefully for the TUC to organise a yearly demo which we can tail end. The rest of the movement can not even mansge this – preferring to give us the benefit of their analyses and reasons not to do anything from their computer screens.
June 22nd gives us an opportunity to break out of this cycle of invisible irrelevance. Our ideas that more hot air posturing and inaction from the Assembly of Notables is useless and that we need action this day against austerity will resonate with many. The absence of any anarchist speakers or speakers from groups like Occupy confirm that Left Unity talk is a hollow sham. Action on June 22nd provides the opportunity for a pluralist collection of anarchist groups to take united action and generate momentum for once.. Over to you comrades.
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wheres the venue for the first meet?
The old politics is dead.
Normal people do not give a shit, about lefties, anarchists or SWP; It’s all BORING, IRRELEVANT & REMOTE from normal people’s real lives.
The old politics is dead.
The failure of ALARM should have rung a bell.
Time to stop clinging to the wreckage.
The old politics is dead.
The old politics is dead maybe…
“A minority of troublemakers bent on disruption” is still well and truly alive
Let the feeling grow…
Remove the old ways, remove the old guard…
SMASH THE FUCKING SYSTEM
Why are these events always in London?
Its as if “Anarchists” wish to replicate the existing geographical power hierarchy. What? Some kind of ‘alternative parliament’ but still based in Westminster. For fucks sake.
The revolution must be everywhere, not (yet) another sideshow in the back streets of Whitehall.
Why can’t we organise some kind of alternative Parliament / assembly / whatever on Dartmoor, in Staines, Rotherham or wherever else?
get on with it then – what’s stopping you
Maybe it should start by occupying Parliament Square on June 22nd?
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/peace-at-last-final-antiwar-protesters-leave-parliament-square-after-12-years-8608893.html
Paid a visit there 2 or 3 years ago. The whole place stank of stagnant urine. The local public toilets cost 50p on the turnstile and the peaceniks had some theory that pissing onto bales of straw would save the planet.