Perfoming Members Of The Prancing Prick's Clubs.

       The circus game of Crooks and Liars, known as the general election, is being thrust upon us with all the usual hysteria, by that babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, all the usual slight of hand and smoke and mirrors will be in use. It will of course, be the same old boring waffle, the usual attempt by the Crooks and Liars to prove they are the best Crooks and Liars in the game. To take part in the Crooks and Liars contest, you are expected to be a member of one of the prancing pricks clubs, sometimes called political parties. 

        In the ensuing weeks we will be smothered in the same old crap, spouted from the same old privileged Oxbridge educated millionaire parasite class. They will, with the obligatory smiling face, be telling us how much they care about us peasants, how we are all in this together, promising you and I, the same old pie-in-the-sky, if we will only let them screw us for another five years. They will be asking you to legitimise their entrenched power and pilfered wealth, seeking your approval as they bolster the wealth and power of their buddies in the financial/corporate Mafia. Sadly, the greatest fraud show on earth, the general election, will be seen my those who indulge the Crooks and Liars with their X on a piece of paper, as having achieved something. It will of course, no matter how few actually vote, be taken as giving the charade of the Crooks and Liars game, the stamp of legitimacy. They will then be entrenched for another 5 year spell of helping themselves, and their corrupt corporate cronies, in their continuing plundering of the public purse. 

      By then, as George Carlin said, "they have you by the balls". Of course, we could turn up at their performances and have a good laugh and expose it for the smoke and mirrors illusion that we know it to be. We could also spend the run up to the Crooks and Liars competition in a concerted effort to reveal the hypocrisy, corruption and self serving reality of the Crooks and Liars competition they call the general election.

      Though there is a call for change, there doesn't seem to be too great a ground swell to scrap the ballot box and take control of our lives. So perhaps Ian Bone's Class War election campaign has something going for it. An opportunity to use that platform as a propaganda exercise, a chance to talk class war politics to a wider public, to put class war on the agenda, to once again get more people talking about class, and the realisation that we are being conned, and this is a class war situation.

From Ian Bone's Blog:

     We are standing Class War candidates in the general election on May 7th 2015. We are doing this to launch a furious and co-ordinated political offensive against the ruling class with the opportunity an election gives us to talk politics to our class. We in no way see the election as an alternative to direct action. By the brick and the ballot.
We are not talking community politics here. It’s too late for a patient slowbuild like the IWCA. The ruling class have us by the throat -they need a short sharp kick in the bollocks. Our election campaign will use any means necessary. we won’t be ushered away by PR minders – we will make ourselves central to the campaign in a funny, rumbustious combative and imaginative way. We will be on the streets and in their faces.
Comrades whatever our yesterdays you are welcome now. join in. reject cynicism. have fun.
FULL STEAM AHEAD THROUGH THE SHIT 

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From Pandora To Pinata, The Repression Continues.

      Operation Pandora, the Spanish state's fascist tactics during December, when in the early hours of the morning it raided the homes of anarchists and kidnapped the inhabitants, is now being repeated under a new name, Operation Pinata. In the early hours of the morning of March 30th. the Spanish state broke into various squats and arrested at least 26 individuals. It is obvious that the Spanish state feels threatened and a need to repress any resistance to the austerity plans of its masters, the financial Mafia. So much so, that it is prepared to make this a way of life for the Spanish people. This is not an isolated case, it is not so long ago that the Greek state carried an assault on anarchists and squats in that country. This is a tactic that will be repeated across Europe as the financial Mafia continue with their austerity manoeuvres, as they attempt to drive the whole of Europe down towards a sweatshop continent.

 From squat.net

       This morning in Operation Piñata (following Pandora in December) cops have raided social centres and arrested people (at least 26) in Barcelona, Madrid, Palencia and Granada.
      La 13-14 in Madrid announced it was being raided this morning.
      CSOA La Redonda in Granada released a communique condemning the raids, which they said occurred without a warrant.
      Centro Social (re)Okupado La Quimera in Lavapies, Madrid was evicted. It also stated no warrant was shown after its doors were smashed at 06:30 and added:
     “This is just another attack on the anarchist movement with intent to criminalize and victimize our struggle.” Other raided social centres were, la Magdalena and La Enredadera de Tetuán.

In solidarity!
On squat.net:
Estado español: Zarpazo represivo, al menos 26 detenciones. Desalojan el CSOA La Quimera

La policia espanyola deté 27 persones en una operació contra col·lectius anarquistes

Some mainstream press: 20minutos /
Directa / Diagonal

   

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Capitalist Success Breeds Mass Unrest.

       I didn't see much of the riots and mass demonstrations that were going on in Frankfurt, appear in our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media. Somehow or other, mass anti-austerity demonstrations on the streets of Europe's most "successful" capitalist nation state, was not considered suitable for mass distribution. Of course we expect that sort of manipulation of events from the corporate owned babbling brook of bullshit, so we seek our information elsewhere. The demonstrations started at the opening ceremony of the new multi-billion Euro headquarters of the ECB, a player in the financial Mafia cabal, known as the Troika, (ECB, European Central Bank, EC, European Commission, IMF, International Mankind Fuckers). It brought thousands onto the streets, who displayed their anger and dissatisfaction with the present system of blatant exploitation.

Obviously on the wrong diet.

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Details Of The Greek Prison Hunger Strikes.

       The hunger strike in the Greek prison system has now been going on for almost a month, having started on March 2, two have been removed to hospital. The Greek state, even with Syriza in power, is arresting and imprisoning family members of those in anarchist groups. Guilty by association is one form of state repression, but guilty by blood line? There is no depth the established power will go to abort any form of democratising society. It is important that we support the hunger strikers and broadcast their case far and wide, solidarity knows no borders.

 Click on image to listen to broadcast.

      This is an English broadcast from Athens, explaining the details of the hunger strikers' case from Radiozones of Subversive Expression radio98fm.org

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The People Verses The System.

        We all know that "law and order" is there to protect the established power base, the land and property owners. We know that in this society, property rights trump human rights, if you take your grievances against property owners through the "judicial system", the dice is loaded against you, who makes the laws, who does the ordering? So when it does happen those of the ordinary people who find themselves forced into this situation, need all the support they can get, it should immediately be a call across the land for solidarity, every way possible.

       This is an appeal from the Sweet Ways occupation, a stand against the gentrification, and the developers, who have called in their minders, the "judicial system", to fight their unjust battle.

29 Mar 2015 — There are now more than 60,000 of us that have taken a stand together against social cleansing! Thank you!
Last Monday we were in court against Annington and the judge reluctantly agreed to give us another week to prepare our defence. But this Monday we will be back at Barnet County Court and regardless of the quality of our arguments, will be fighting against generations of British law which gives greater legitimacy to private property rights, than it does to human rights.
      Can you come to the courts with us on Monday morning to show your support?
https://www.facebook.com/events/433124830197068/
…Even if you can’t, can you keep sharing the petition on Facebook, Twitter, email… or at your office, or in your mosque or church? Or could you Tweet your support on Monday morning and let Annington know what you think of their plans? (We are @SweetsWayN20, they are @AnningtonHomes)

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Let's Sort This Mess Out.

       We should always be alive to the fact that everything we take as decent conditions in our lives, was never given to us by the system and the powers that be. Everything from half-decent housing to medical care, from the length of the working day to holidays with pay, from lunch breaks to forming a union, all of these things were extracted from an unwilling system and its managers, by the long, bitter and determined struggles, of our forefathers. No matter how confident you may feel about your standard of life, the powers that be are always working hard to take back what we have won by our struggles. As far as the system is concerned, our conditions are a drain on profit and this drain must be limited to as little as possible. Today we are seeing a dramatic and determined attempt by the system, to take back everything we have won over the last hundred years or so. Increases in unsociable working hours, zero hours contracts, dramatic drop in living conditions, slashing of social benefits, and services, and a massive wages depression. These are just some of the fronts where their attack is gaining ground.

     It is sad to think that, what conditions we won by hardship, imprisonment and in some case death, are now being taken back by stealth and propaganda. It is also futile to expect that the political system in place at the moment, will do anything about this plundering of our living standards. The only debate among the political classes is by how much will we be plundered, at what rate will we be plundered, and how far can they go down this road. None of them come up with an alternative, it is austerity rapid, or austerity slow, austerity permanent, or austerity temporarily, only to be administered to our class of course. 

      Meanwhile the country gets richer and richer, the parasite class and their political puppets move into ever more splendour and grandeur, they wallow in luxury that you and I can only imagine. You would need to be an idiot to expect them to start to reverses this pattern of their own accord. If we continue trying to wrest more crumbs from from our masters table, the pattern will just keep repeating itself, we will grab a crust here, perhaps a wee cake there, and then they'll get round to sweeping it all up again. We create all the wealth of this country, by right, it is ours to distribute as we see fit. Isn't time we got round to doing just that? 

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Doon Possil Wiy.

     A wee bit late with this, but still time to get involved doon Possil w'y.

From The Concrete Garden:

The weather is changing, time to get out and about. Come and help our brothers and sisters to build their bothy in the Concrete Community Garden, Possil. We want to finish it for our busy summer activities. If you have some time pop in. No experience necessary – but if you have all the better. Banter is passable, good crack, and the food is good. We will even pay your bus fare and you will learn something. Hod me back!

28th 29th March 11th 12th April
Check the video
https://www.facebook.com/theconcretegarden        

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Retired,----You Scrounger!!!

         Cameron recently spewed out a load of sickly syrup about how the Tories will take care of pensioners. Triple lock protection, and all that crap, but what is in the pipeline doesn't look quite as comforting to that army of elderly who retire and want to enjoy their life as they live longer. Already the murmurings from the back room Tory planners is all about “encouraging” elderly to work longer. They see a group that is receiving money and not working, and they could be another regiment of free workfare for their corporate buddies. Of course it will all be done with the smoke and mirrors of the illusion that pensioners really want to work until they drop dead. The state propaganda machine will see that, slowly, slowly, the tide will be turned, and those pensioners that want to enjoy their retirement in doing things they like doing, will be cast in the role of scrounger, taking tax payers money and not contributing to society. 

       I worked all my life and when I retired it was probably the richest period of my life. At last I had some control over my life, I could come and go as I pleased. Though not much money I could get on with lots of ideas I had put on the “back-burner” for years. If somebody had come along and suggested that I should get into some sort of training for a new job, I would probably have strangled them. I hope the present and future pensioners will think similarly. Retired people don't want to work until the drop, they just want a decent pension, which they have paid for, by helping create the wealth of this country, and then left to get on with their lives as they see fit. 

This from Johnny Void:

       It is important to point out that Altmann talks about encouraging people to work longer or take up an apprenticeship, not forcing them.  They are not yet that confident. But this is exactly the kind of smiley faced rhetoric that was eventually used to justify workfare and benefit cuts for sick and disabled people.  Altmann even proposes an Age Confident campaign, modelled on the DWP’s current Disability Confident initiative, the shoddy PR programme introduced to provide soft cover for cutting disabled people’s benefits.
     Workfare for your pension may be some way off but that is no reason to be complacent.  Reports like this are how it begins.  Encouraging people to work longer is presented as helping them, or ending age discrimination.  Liberals will cheer, the Labour Party will applaud.  Charities for older people will start thinking about all those juicy contracts to train pensioners in how to write a CV that might be on the way.  Middle-class professionals, who earn more in an hour than some do in a day, will think it’s just common sense to do a few hours work after you retire – as long as the money’s right of course.  And slowly those who choose to retire at 65 will be start to be criticised for not taking up all the exciting opportunites now available to work for the  minimum wage until the day you die.

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Capitalist Crisis, People's Opportunity.

      Slogans or truths, "Capitalism is Crisis", "Capitalism isn't Working", "Capitalism a Failed System", "Capitalism Crashed, Install a New system", I happen to believe that they are in fact truths.

Two interesting Videos from A World to Win:

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Just Thinkin'.

       Looking around we can see lots of campaigns, all highlighting failings in the economic system we live under. There are those who point to the injustice of workfare, the bedroom tax, disability assessment process,, the viciousness of “sanctions”, winter deaths from fuel poverty, the ever increasing need for food banks, homelessness, the lack of care in the community for the elderly and the sick, mentally and physically, low wages, zero hour contracts. Then we move on to MP's fiddling, cronyism in high places, massive bonuses to the corporate bosses, the ever widening gap between rich and poor, and this list only scratches the surface. 

      Surely a system with this volume of flaws and injustices, can honestly be assessed as, not fit for purpose. Wouldn't it be better if all those sincere and dedicated campaigners, accepted that it is not their particular issue that is the problem, it is the economic system that is inherently flawed, and it is to that problem we must direct our energies. Capitalism is a beast of exploitation, it can't be other than that, that's how it works, the primary object of any “business” is to make money for its owners, not to serve the public. If it doesn't make money for its owners, then screw the public, it will shut down, no matter the need of that public. We have to get away from the sticking plaster mentality when we are dealing with a terminal cancer. Capitalism has to be put to rest, deposited in the dustbin of history, it has passed the point of being a bit unfair, it is now destroying the planet, and forcing civilisation to extinction. Its continual drive for growth in a world of finite resources, is a recipe for disaster, there are no redeeming factors in capitalism. It spawns wars, increases poverty, widens the gap between rich and poor, its basic principles are greed and exploitation.

       I personally don't think we have that much time to avert a world wide catastrophe, as our insane system drives ever increasing climatic changes, rapes and plunders the earth of all its finite resources, and all in the name of profit for the few. We know we can organise our lives in a more sane and just manner, we know we can manage the earth's resources in a manner that will preserve them and serve all. We have had hundreds of years of an ever failing system that has never delivered what its proponents claimed it would. Let's focus on bring this system down, not trying to patch its festering last days. Let's focus on creating that better world based on the co-operation and will of the ordinary people, a system based on justice, sanity and fairness, one that attempts to live in harmony with the ecosystem that supports us, not destroy it, for the benefit of the few. We have to spread the anarchist dream and work towards making it a reality, the alternative is a profit driven, rapid descent into extinction. 

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AK Press Up Date.

      An up date from AK Press, looks quite horrendous, apparently two people died in an adjoining building. Loss of stock and trading is one thing but loss of life is something else.

From AK Press:

     AK Press is currently dealing with the aftermath of a major fire. You are in the right place if you want to help. 

A lot of people have been asking what is the best way to help us recover. We still aren't sure the exact amount of stock that is ruined, or how long we will be unable to enter our warehouse building. But we do know that we've lost a lot, and that we're effectively shut down for business so we're not able to sustain ourselves without your help.

If you are able to make a financial contribution to our Fire Relief Fund, please do so. We'll see that any donated funds are divided up between AK Press, our neighbors at 1984 Printing, and building residents who have lost their homes and belongings.

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Greece, December 2008.

       Let's Disappear, is a summary/critique of the events in Greece around December 2008, by the Invisible Committee, and is certainly worth a read. I was in Athens on that December 2008, and was filled with a strange array of mixed emotions, there was apprehension and exhilaration, I was awestruck by the shear volume of anger and camaraderie, of united people on the streets, a feeling that I have never forgotten to this day. I sometimes wonder if I will ever find myself in a similar situation that will re-kindle those powerful emotions, that feeling that something wonderful and new was about to happen. Of course it hasn't--- well not yet.

Let's Disappear:

    Anyone who lived through the days of December, 2008 in Athens knows what the word “insurrection” signifies in a Western metropolis. The banks were in pieces, the police stations under siege, the city in the hands of the assailants. In the luxury shops, they were no longer repairing the windows, which would need to be done every morning. Nothing that embodied the police reign of normality was untouched by this wave of fire and stones whose bearers were everywhere and representatives nowhere—even the Syntagma Christmas tree was torched. At a certain point the forces of order withdrew, after running out of tear-gas grenades. Impossible to say who took over the streets then. They say it was the “600 euros generation,” the “high schoolers,” the “anarchists,” the “riffraff” from the Albanian immigration, they’ll say anything.As usual, the press blamed the “koukoulofori,” the “hooded ones.” The truth is that the anarchists were overrun by this faceless outpouring of rage. Their monopoly on wild, masked action, inspired tags, and even Molotov cocktails had been taken from them unceremoniously. The general uprising they no longer dared to imagine was there, but it didn’t resemble the idea of it they had in their minds. An unknown entity, an egregore, had been born, a spirit that wouldn’t be appeased till everything was reduced to cinders that deserved to be. Time was on fire. The present was fractured as payment for all the future that had been stolen from us.
    The years that followed in Greece taught us the meaning of the word “counter-insurgency” in a Western country. Once the wave had passed, the hundreds of groups that had formed in the country, down to the smallest villages, tried to stay faithful to the breach which the month of December had opened.
     At one spot, people might empty the cash registers of a super-market, then film themselves burning the loot. At another, an embassy might be attacked in broad daylight in solidarity with some friend hounded by the police in his or her country. Some resolved, as in Italy of the 1970’s, to carry the attack to a higher level and target, using bombs or firearms, the Athens stock exchange, cops, ministries or perhaps the Microsoft headquarters. As in the 1970’s, the left passed new “antiterrorist” laws. The raids, arrests, and trials multiplied. For a time, one was reduced to militating against “repression.” The European Union, the World Bank, the IMF, in agreement with the Socialist government, undertook to make Greece pay for the unpardonable revolt. One should never underestimate the resentment of the wealthy towards the insolence of the poor. They decided to bring the whole country to heel through a string of “economic measures” more or less as violent, although spread over time, as the revolt.

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