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MAYDAY
Autonomous Workers Block
Tuesday 1st May - 12pm Clerkenwell Green behind the red and black flags
For the last half century we were told to trust leaders that controlled the market on our behalf. That the market could be forced to provide the things we needed to have a good life. But anywhere the market has been managed, it has broken free. Markets do not care about healthy workers, about their free time, about their security – the only thing they need is profit, and profit can never stabilise, it must always grow.
We can never work hard enough. We can never buy enough.
Clothes and food might be cheap, but try buying a house or getting decent healthcare. Our media is more powerful than ever before – so we can watch our governments lie to us on thousands of front pages, millions of channels, 24 hours a day. We work longer than ever – to make sure the gap rich and poor between gets bigger than ever.
We do not have a choice about whether to struggle – we are struggling right now.
We can either try and control the market again a little bit through political parties, or try and reduce the worst of the devastation through charities – or we can learn the lesson of the 20th century and accept that when the economy does not need us, we do not need the economy. When we fight to get back what we have lost and create something new in its place, we cannot let anyone else but ourselves be responsible. Control over our lives is exactly what we have lost, so this is exactly how we can attack - with democracy and independence. These methods are also the most effective because they are the hardest to pay off or mislead. Over the last few years, grassroots democracy has returned or sprung up in a number of different and inspiring ways; on this Mayday we march to celebrate our new resistance to our oldest problem – united in unrepentant struggle against their unrelenting attacks.
Join us!
NB:
rather than the 'event of the century' style happening, or the more modest 'lets all dress up and satirise capitalism', this is an attempt to put anarchism in (our view) its proper place - in the wider struggles, on the main TUC lead march. Also, every year loads of people turn up to the TUC bash looking for anarchists or fellow travellers so we might as well be there.
More importantly, this is an attempt to be a bit more honest and postive:
Talk about things that are happening now or recently, in the UK, which are good: from independent industrial activity (like gate gourmet) to community organising like Broadway market, to the ecological/community struggles - like Rossport in ireland and the gas pipeline in Wales.
Last years block was sizeable, this year it may even be the biggest block on the march if the numbers hold. It was a cracking day in my view - pics available on Redwatch
More info on all the different initaitives being worked on, see you there
Autonomous Workers Block
Tuesday 1st May - 12pm Clerkenwell Green behind the red and black flags
For the last half century we were told to trust leaders that controlled the market on our behalf. That the market could be forced to provide the things we needed to have a good life. But anywhere the market has been managed, it has broken free. Markets do not care about healthy workers, about their free time, about their security – the only thing they need is profit, and profit can never stabilise, it must always grow.
We can never work hard enough. We can never buy enough.
Clothes and food might be cheap, but try buying a house or getting decent healthcare. Our media is more powerful than ever before – so we can watch our governments lie to us on thousands of front pages, millions of channels, 24 hours a day. We work longer than ever – to make sure the gap rich and poor between gets bigger than ever.
We do not have a choice about whether to struggle – we are struggling right now.
We can either try and control the market again a little bit through political parties, or try and reduce the worst of the devastation through charities – or we can learn the lesson of the 20th century and accept that when the economy does not need us, we do not need the economy. When we fight to get back what we have lost and create something new in its place, we cannot let anyone else but ourselves be responsible. Control over our lives is exactly what we have lost, so this is exactly how we can attack - with democracy and independence. These methods are also the most effective because they are the hardest to pay off or mislead. Over the last few years, grassroots democracy has returned or sprung up in a number of different and inspiring ways; on this Mayday we march to celebrate our new resistance to our oldest problem – united in unrepentant struggle against their unrelenting attacks.
Join us!
NB:
rather than the 'event of the century' style happening, or the more modest 'lets all dress up and satirise capitalism', this is an attempt to put anarchism in (our view) its proper place - in the wider struggles, on the main TUC lead march. Also, every year loads of people turn up to the TUC bash looking for anarchists or fellow travellers so we might as well be there.
More importantly, this is an attempt to be a bit more honest and postive:
Talk about things that are happening now or recently, in the UK, which are good: from independent industrial activity (like gate gourmet) to community organising like Broadway market, to the ecological/community struggles - like Rossport in ireland and the gas pipeline in Wales.
Last years block was sizeable, this year it may even be the biggest block on the march if the numbers hold. It was a cracking day in my view - pics available on Redwatch
More info on all the different initaitives being worked on, see you there
