“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice… Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality” - Michael Bakunin.
One of the big themes of last night’s nonsense was that the royal ‘we’ will occupy the Liberal Democrat HQ on the 24th November. I must have missed the memo, and so it seems, did everyone else. This rhetoric amounts to nothing more than a complete abdication of social responsibility by the politically immature.
The accepted truth amongst activists working on a consensus basis is that it is generally a bad idea to announce publically, in advance, what illegal activities everyone will be doing and when and where they will be doing it without first agreeing the action with the group concerned. But then, who are we to comment.
What is patently obvious is that democratic socialists are trying to hijack and control the student movement, using the students anger for their own political gains. What is not mentioned at the meetings is what they intend to do when the proles take arms. These people envisage themselves as a new elite of bureaucrats, administering in their own interests rather than in the interest of those they are supposed to serve. They encourage dependency and conformity by threatening to withdraw their aid and by rewarding those they favour.
For those who couldn’t see the nepotism in the choice of speakers by the chair, the hierarchical form of socialism reared its ugly head with the notion of the relative importance of signatories. The people chairing the meeting deemed that they had some ‘important’ signatures and mentioned the names of a few fellow paper sellers and then said they had some ‘even more important’ than that. These people believe implicitly in their own importance, which is rated, I am sure, on the length of their paper-selling career. Your signature is just as important as anybody else’s, so too is your voice. Don’t let them tell you anything different.
I am still unsure as to whom the occupying royal ‘we’ refers to exactly. I’ll say one thing; the LDHQ is the last place I intend on occupying on the 24th and I am damn well sure those who were saying ‘we’ yesterday will also be absent. Any qualms the force had about surrounding it with a small army will certainly have disappeared after the diatribe yesterday. Any attempt of occupation will be smashed quicker than you can scream cavalry charge.
The social democrats, with their irresponsible speeches born out of a naïve belief in a call to arms against the state will be singlehandedly responsible for the death in the sudden upsurge in the student movement. The rhetoric used of poll tax riots etc is misleading. The riots did not stop the poll tax, civil disobedience did (nobody paid it). Lets not forget that after the poll tax riots, much of the left came out denouncing the riots and blamed the riots on the anarchists.
In contradiction to what was said at the time by the London police, the government, the Labour Party and the labour movement and most of the Marxist and Trotskyist left, the 1991 police report concluded there was "no evidence that the trouble was orchestrated by left-wing anarchist groups". Does anybody get a sense of Déjà vu?
In contradiction to what was said at the time by the London police, the government, the Labour Party and the labour movement and most of the Marxist and Trotskyist left, the 1991 police report concluded there was "no evidence that the trouble was orchestrated by left-wing anarchist groups". Does anybody get a sense of Déjà vu?
Why didn’t we occupy the theatre yesterday? Because it was full of the elite, they want the students to do the dirty work whilst they are at arms length, ready to condemn or condone dependent on whether or not it suits their career fantasies. Any talk of action at the meeting was either ignored or shouted down, revolutionaries worried about room scheduling. They do not stand in solidarity with the students; they stand as uncommitted Generals addressing their army.
As for solidarity, only if the social democrats adopt a libertarian and decentralized form of socialism can anarchists join them in their endeavours. We will continue to encourage the principles of voluntary federation and association and will not stand by and watch you brainwash a new generation. The disgustingness of what happened yesterday I cannot, and will not be any part of. I do not stand in solidarity with you. Lets get one thing straight, 50,000 unarmed students are not your personal red army to take on the state. I pray the coming destruction of a student march doesn’t have any lasting casualties other than that of your nasty form of politics.
Please people, don’t let the benevolent face of the Education Activist Network fool you. There is much that can be gained from individuals within the group (read Clare Solomon for one) but do not forget that they have their own agendas. You do not need the network to organise your own actions and you certainly don’t need to jump when they say.
The easily led will all be back to marching from A to B soon rest assured. The resistance movement will return to the small but steadily growing anarchist and libertarian socialist movement it was before.
Either that or this thing will explode, and then who knows.
Organise with consensus, resist, strike and occupy.
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