Friday 31 May 2024

Tory victory.



Election special, 


Final Results

Tories win

Herr Starmer sworn in as supreme leader. 

His first statement as supreme leader was that we would protect the people from extremist and arrest Jeremy Corbyn and Dianne Abbot for crimes against the state. Herr Starmer also  promised to protect the state from protests against a legally elected government.Such protests will not be tolerated.

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Wednesday 22 May 2024

Saturday 18 May 2024

Crime of Homelessness.


         So Richy Sunak's fortune has risen to £651 million while he presides over the worst housing crisis in the Western world. Does he care, of course not, why should he he has several homes dotted around the planet. He doesn't know how to grasp the fact of being homeless. Are these the sort of people we want running our affairs for us? Or do you think we could do a better job if we got rid of the millionaire parasites that gain from the homeless, as it helps to keep property prices high. We live in a system that helps the rich parasites fat bank accounts stuffed by keeping people homeless to boost property prices.This won't change until we change the system and take things into our own hands and rid ourselves of the blood sucking leeches that dominate the property market to boost their ill gotten gains. To preside over homelessness so as to fatten you personal wealth is a crime against humanity and such people must be held to account. Homelessness is a word that hides a multitude of health problems, leads to children being deprived of a decent life with all the future consequences that all that entails, a stunted future for millions of children, children who will be anchored and mired in permanent poverty. The choice is ours bequeath or children more of the same or make a stand and change the whole stinking insane system. Only us will bring about that change the fat cats will fight tooth and nail to keep the system of homelessness boosting property prices.  

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Saturday 4 May 2024

Wednesday 3 April 2024

May 1st.

 


         A small bunch of Glasgow groups , RBC, Glasgow Keelie, Spirit of Revolt have been putting on events leading up to and beyond May Day. the idea is to make more people aware of the importance of May Day to the ordinary people, our continuing fight for a fair and just world for all.
          There will be a special event on May 1st. in Red Rosa Calton 159 London Road. Come along and help celebrate International Workers Day, make new friends, all welcome.
 

 
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Thursday 28 March 2024

Crooks & Liars!!



 

        Once again, in this country, we are approaching what they call elections, what I prefer to call "National Crooks and Liars" competition. Having been aware of these competitions since my teens and now 90 years old it is obvious to see the pattern. The contestants raise themselves into a frenzy, spouting the most barefaced lies with such conviction as they can muster, wear a particular colour tie to denote which camp they are aiming to be part of hoping for a lucrative job and fat pay check with pension and expenses.

       Flunkies leading the Crooks and Liars to their new lucrative job.


                                                      Image courtesy of The Guardian.

          You have all heard the lies and should know them off by heart. "We will end child poverty in X number of years", "We will end the scourge of poverty across our land in X number of years". There other favourite lies they like to spin, "We will end homelessness in X number of years by building X number of house every year." Of course after the "Crooks and Liars Competition" is over things settled down to the usual backhanders to friends and cronies, double dealing and second and third jobs with the various companies that bought them during the competition to safeguard their wealth and profit making. So where does that leave you and I, well as usual right where we always end up, struggling for a decent life.

         The following information is taken from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2024 report.
            Poverty has increased, close to pre-pandemic levels
2021/22 22% approximately 1 in 5 UK population were living in poverty, that accounts for 14.4 million people.
Among them 8.1 million working age adults app 2 in 10 living in poverty. 4.2 million children (app. 3 in every 10)
It has been almost 20 years and 6 prime ministers since the last prolonged period of falling poverty

          In the 1980s, under the Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher, there was then an unprecedented rise in poverty even at a time of high income growth, This has not been reversed, meaning current levels of poverty are around 50% higher than they were in the 1970s. 

            Lots of people will give reasons for The Thatcher push to poverty, but rest assure none of these reasons were for the benefit of the ordinary people.
          So, with these facts in mind, do you think it is worth bothering to support any of those in this ridiculous charade of "Crooks and Liars" Competition??
 
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Wednesday 27 March 2024

Bakunin.

 


            Latest addition to Spirit Of Revolt Archive, read on line is Basic Bakunin, Anarchist Communist Editions No.1. Published by the Anarchist Communist Federation. From https://spiritofrevolt.info John Cooper Collection T SOR 3-52-14-1 Check the website for a host of free to read on line in anarchist literature and much more.


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Tuesday 19 March 2024

Paris Commune.

 

 


               Anarchist history is varied and exciting and on many occasions has changed society dramatically. The Paris Commune is just one example and well worth remembering and celebrating, even if the end was a bloody massacre. The spirit lives on. This from SubMedia, with the promise of more to come.


                    

                     It is worth remembering the Spirit of Revolt is probably the largest archive of Anarchist and Libertarian Socialist history and memorabilia in Scotland. Why not have a browse.  

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Sunday 17 March 2024

Free Event.



           Anarchist Film Group are holding a free event/PowerPoint talk followed by a discussion, in the Electron club CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, Tuesday 26th March 7pm.
            It's on direct action and community activism with specific examples covering housing issues, the 1984/85 miner's strike and the Poll Tax. The Speaker will be John Cooper, long standing member of https://spiritofrevolt.info He will be using material from our John Cooper Collection T SOR 3 and his own personal experiences. This is a must and should prove very interesting.
            If anyone is interested they are welcome to attend.
 
 
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Tuesday 12 March 2024

The Source.

 


          Although they missed a few months of "Read of the Month" the small band of Spirit of Revolt volunteers have not been idle. They continue to organise free monthly events, among other things. The next free event is April 11th 6:30-9:00pm at the Electron Club in the CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow. The subject matter for this talk/discussion/questions/chat will be "A Short History of May Day" the speaker will be Dek Keenan. Come along, learn, have your say, make new friends. Back to "Read of the Month", We catch up with March offering, so here is Spirit of Revolt, March issue of “Read of The Month”  The Source: Independent Monthly Magazine. No. 1. From our Charlie Baird Collection T SOR 6-7-25. Enjoy and perhaps have a wee browse through the other gems held in the Spirit of Revolt Archive, an be surprised at the extent of the content we hold on Anarchist and Libertarian Socialist history and events. 

READ ONLINE.

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Sunday 10 March 2024

Kill Kids!!

 

         Zionism is psychopathic cult, day and daily we hear quotes from its advocates and its leaders. the brutality in their proclaimed beliefs grates against any glimmer of humanity. They are devoid of any traces of decency and humanity. The following quote from "The Cradle" is not unique to this particular individual but is repeated by members of the Zionist government of Israel on a regular basis.Making perfectly clear their real aim in Gaza, the elimination of the Palestinians and claim their land as part of greater Israel.

       

       Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the Shirat Moshe yeshiva (religious school) in the occupied city of Jaffa, called on the Israeli army to kill everyone in Gaza, including babies.
        During a conference on 8 March, Mali said that “according to the halachic principle (a religious-ethical system of legal reasoning in Judaism), all residents of Gaza must be killed.”
        When asked during the conference if babies should be killed as well, he said: “The same thing. You can't be clever with the Torah. Today he's a baby, tomorrow he's a fighter. There are no questions here. Today's terrorists were previously 8-year-old children.”
         “Those who create the terrorists” should also be killed, he said in reference to women in Gaza.

        How long can the so called civilised world allow this regime of killers to continue with their genocidal policies, which they pursue with open vigour, laughing at the Western imperialists who supply them with the money and armaments. Governments that ignore the cry for justice and peace from the vast majority of its citizens? 


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Friday 8 March 2024

Blood Oil.




Image courtesy of Palestine Chronicle.

           So the very compassionate good old U$ of A is building a port on the beaches of Gaza and will protect it with their war ships. The pretext is that they will deliver aid to the Palestinians, however, they won't stop the genocide, for in all honesty that would upset their real plans. Once the Zionist psychopaths have destroy Gaza and dispersed its population, then the U$A is in a wonderful position, with a ready built port, to extract the riches of the Gaza oil fields just of the coast of Gaza and ship it to their markets around the world. A nice wee boost for the economy of the U$A.


 
           The callous barbarity and inhumanity of the western imperialists knows no bounds. Profit overrides the lives of thousands of innocent civilians and the starvation of children. U$A can stand by and let the Zionist psychopaths do the killing, while they wait in the wings to reap the blood soaked spoils of this brutal genocide. Throughout this entire inhuman genocidal attack on the civilian population of Gaza, U$A and its Western puppets have supported the slaughter to the hilt, stood by and arm the aggressor and now they are getting ready to collect their pay back, the riches of the Gaza oil fields. Endless wars are rich pickings for this blood soaked insanity of an economic system. Its total destruction is the only answer to get to a society of fairness and justice for all. A society built on mutual aid, co-operation, that sees to the needs of all our people.
 

Thursday 7 March 2024

Keelie 47.

 


                Once again the great wee pocket rocket of a newspaper, your newspaper, the Glasgow Keelie hits the street. Issue 47 now available at pickets, demos, on the streets, seek out your copy, you won't be disappointed, From what your council gets up to, how we are continually ripped-off by this insane economic system that feed the rich at the expense of the poor. Contact with those who on a daily basis fight the injustices and call for justice and peace. Of course we support Palestine and demand a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Zionist perpetrated genocide.
           You can also read it on line at Glasgow Keelie, ask for copies to distribute among you friends, communities and workplaces, all for free. Or get in touch and gives your grip about the injustice we the people suffer on a daily basis, tell us your story, articles welcome. 


 
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