10th October Protest - no bail out for the bankers
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forwarded email WITH WRONG DATE .. basically it is this friday
''COLLAPSE FASTER!''
FRIDAY 11TH OCTOBER, 5PM, BANK TUBE
-->THE BANK OF ENGLAND, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON.
1989: The wall falls, capitalism triumphs.
1999: Protesters stop the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle, but globalisation continues to deregulate everything and carve up the world for the global economy.
October 2008: Folks, its all gone pear shaped!
Recession has hit. America first, Ireland now, Britain next. Prices continue to rise, food, homes and energy begins to slip out of reach. Wages have stagnated for years, now we all face the chop. The government is getting ready for millions more unemployed over the next five years, and they’ll face the harshest forced-work programs since Victorian times – just to get the pittance of the dole. It is no longer cost effective to employ you. You are not buying anything anymore. The banks have fucked it up, they wont lend because the cash flow has dried up so now they crash. Northern Rock, Lehman Brothers, Bradford & Bingley.
First priority of the politicains who claim to be in control of the market? Bail out our banker buddies! That’s $700 billion of US workers money, to be given to the speculators so they can start playing roulette with our lives again. The millions of us who didn’t actually cause this crisis are told to accept ‘wage restraint’. Down here everyone waits, and works, and worries. We can call for more state intervention, we can moan about how this particular crash is the fault of this particular policy by this particular party or this particular Plc. – or we can accept its not the players, it’s the game.
Capitalism isn’t in crisis CAPITALISM IS CRISIS!
Now is our time, if we are brave enough to seize it, to say that as long as capitalism continues, we can never be secure. But now, for once, they are insecure like us. We say let them suffer their own crimes, no bailouts for the bosses! So, we wont beg for ‘no repossessions’, we will join our neighbours and resist and the bailiffs won’t dare tread on our streets! We wont accept ‘wage restraint’, we will organise in workplaces and unions to win what we need! More than this, one day we will seize control of our own economy, so their system can do no more damage. But for now, we will take to the streets.
On Friday 11th October, we call all anarchists, radicals and people who have their eyes on the ball to join us to pay a visit to the bank manager. We will take more than anger, we will take a clear threat, and one that cannot be soothed. The bankers are our enemies, the bosses are our enemies. Today we will suffer this crisis as we suffer their crimes, but we also see their weakness and in that we find hope. Bankers, bosses, politicians listen up: Your time is soon over, our time is now!"
''COLLAPSE FASTER!''
FRIDAY 11TH OCTOBER, 5PM, BANK TUBE
-->THE BANK OF ENGLAND, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON.
1989: The wall falls, capitalism triumphs.
1999: Protesters stop the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle, but globalisation continues to deregulate everything and carve up the world for the global economy.
October 2008: Folks, its all gone pear shaped!
Recession has hit. America first, Ireland now, Britain next. Prices continue to rise, food, homes and energy begins to slip out of reach. Wages have stagnated for years, now we all face the chop. The government is getting ready for millions more unemployed over the next five years, and they’ll face the harshest forced-work programs since Victorian times – just to get the pittance of the dole. It is no longer cost effective to employ you. You are not buying anything anymore. The banks have fucked it up, they wont lend because the cash flow has dried up so now they crash. Northern Rock, Lehman Brothers, Bradford & Bingley.
First priority of the politicains who claim to be in control of the market? Bail out our banker buddies! That’s $700 billion of US workers money, to be given to the speculators so they can start playing roulette with our lives again. The millions of us who didn’t actually cause this crisis are told to accept ‘wage restraint’. Down here everyone waits, and works, and worries. We can call for more state intervention, we can moan about how this particular crash is the fault of this particular policy by this particular party or this particular Plc. – or we can accept its not the players, it’s the game.
Capitalism isn’t in crisis CAPITALISM IS CRISIS!
Now is our time, if we are brave enough to seize it, to say that as long as capitalism continues, we can never be secure. But now, for once, they are insecure like us. We say let them suffer their own crimes, no bailouts for the bosses! So, we wont beg for ‘no repossessions’, we will join our neighbours and resist and the bailiffs won’t dare tread on our streets! We wont accept ‘wage restraint’, we will organise in workplaces and unions to win what we need! More than this, one day we will seize control of our own economy, so their system can do no more damage. But for now, we will take to the streets.
On Friday 11th October, we call all anarchists, radicals and people who have their eyes on the ball to join us to pay a visit to the bank manager. We will take more than anger, we will take a clear threat, and one that cannot be soothed. The bankers are our enemies, the bosses are our enemies. Today we will suffer this crisis as we suffer their crimes, but we also see their weakness and in that we find hope. Bankers, bosses, politicians listen up: Your time is soon over, our time is now!"
Good luck brothers sisters, let the street raw with anger, lets here the smashing of there banks, bring it back home to the greedy bastards and while you are at it give the trots a swift fist of class justice, time we made the middle class history bankers and trots alike, i was all ways of the thought
RTS= RIOT THROUGH SUBURBIA
(bringing it all back home)
RTS= RIOT THROUGH SUBURBIA
(bringing it all back home)
It was called by SOAS students union (at a mass meeting - proposed by SWP members) and was then supported by some PCS branches and other student bodies.
The Westminster Trades Council and PCS London and South East Regional office are circulating details to their circulation lists. Details are going up on the blogs.
The PCS have this week agreed for the PCS national banner to be on the demo.
The Westminster Trades Council and PCS London and South East Regional office are circulating details to their circulation lists. Details are going up on the blogs.
The PCS have this week agreed for the PCS national banner to be on the demo.
good stuff grouch
Kenny Vermouth
Wankers
Most students don't pay taxes and the protesters will mostly comprise students so it's fair to say it's not really your money the Government is proposing to use.
What's the plan anyway? The usual?
I'll wager it will involve some chanting, waving of placards which look like they were made by a six-year-old, smashing the odd window followed by claims of police heavy-handedness. Why don't you enrol in kindergarten or have a wank instead? Capitalism is suffering a blip, it's not dying.
What's the plan anyway? The usual?
I'll wager it will involve some chanting, waving of placards which look like they were made by a six-year-old, smashing the odd window followed by claims of police heavy-handedness. Why don't you enrol in kindergarten or have a wank instead? Capitalism is suffering a blip, it's not dying.
That's not how democracy works tho' is it? Everyone gets the vote regardless of their tax band. Everyone has the right to protest regardless of their tax band. Taxes are for the collective benefit of the country as a whole.
In any case everyone pays taxes via VAT in shops, at the very least. Students will typically pay a lot of tax over their life-times.
Your argument doesn't really stack up very well.
Are you in favour of nationalisation of banks and limitless tax & spend by government? How much money would you be happy to see spent on this and what conditions do you think should be attached to any assistance?
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
@ KV
This ^^
Even bairns pay taxes
Students are also PAYING for their education so why shouldn't they protest about things?
.. to add to that students get taxed through the damn tuition fees. Since they have to pay an effective tax on education (fee is a bullshit term becasue the "fees" are means tested, the poorer you are the less you pay, like taxes in theory) they have every right to be there.
Good luck to 'em.
TomPaine
Good luck to 'em.
TomPaine
lights.out.london
Black Flag
Udo Erasmus
Well-Known Member
One can imagine Kenny in Paris 1968 lining up with the CP and TU bureaucrats, can't support students getting militant etc.
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
blimey that's great news
....actually i'm kinda jumoing the gun here, that's cos they oppose the bailout,not the economic system. Damnit 'march on the city' gives a boy ideas!
OK so he's assessment of whose allowed to protest at this bail-out outrage is prejudicial, but he p'bly aint wrong on the above score.
I'll be there cos I'm fuckin angry (and not a student), but I am concerned about empty sloganeering by swappies and @'s and their ill-informed ilk, and I don't want to be coralled by cops on a Friday night!
ditto ^^^OK so he's assessment of whose allowed to protest at this bail-out outrage is prejudicial, but he p'bly aint wrong on the above score.
I'll be there cos I'm fuckin angry (and not a student), but I am concerned about empty sloganeering by swappies and @'s and their ill-informed ilk, and I don't want to be coralled by cops on a Friday night!
chilango
Ha! Ha! Armageddon
ska invita
back on the other side
id expect heavy policing on this one - i predict a scuffle
ska invita
back on the other side
A scuffle there was, but the police came out the loosers. A nice write up on the day by Ian Bone:
Udo Erasmus
Well-Known Member
I noticed Indymedia UK censorship where they removed every single post before or after this march on the city.
Iguana
Well-Known Member
An awful lot of "ordinary" people are seriously opposed to the bailout. I'm not in favour of the capitalist system, but even from a capitalist view point I'd be against this, iyswim. If there are to be further protests it wouldn't hurt the organisers to advertise it in more mainstream forums. Even financial ones.
Huh? Doesn't that completely defeat the point of Indymedia in the first place? And why would anyone on the site want to censor this?
Udo Erasmus said:
no one can't
Yeah, one imagines Kenny would have been more of an Occident type of bloke...
Indeed - the Libertarians were discussing attending the event but didn't want it to turn into a punch up between them and the SWP.
Udo Erasmus
Well-Known Member
I don't know -ask them. But post a report or link to a report of the march on there and you will see it won't go up.
Udo Erasmus
Well-Known Member
Why punch each other when there are plenty of cops . . .
Quite.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/410249.html - Up since 8/10/08 without being deleted.
This just went up on the newswire, but it's just links to other sources, which is naughty and will always get removed. Were the other reports like that?
