Bullshit.

         Capitalism, a system that has always represented only the uppermost echelons of the financially affluent and their parasitical banks. This coterie of self seeking financial fraudsters, though chicanery and bribery convinced the political menagerie, that no matter for what purpose it may have been set up, government is in thrall and dependent on this financial cabal and must follow its bidding. So finance dictates what can and cannot be done. The will of the people must bend to the demands of the financial Mafia, or the threat of societies collapse will ensue. Well that is their mantra that is shouted loud and clear. This preached bullshit is treated by the powers that be, with reverence and respect, with the belief that there is no alternative.
       However, you and I should know that there is an alternative way to structure our society. One based on mutual aid, co-operation, sustainability and community, freed from the greed drive profit motive. The injustices and inequalities of capitalism are not set in tablets of stone. It is a human devised system of selfish greed and can be replaced with a human devised system of fairness. All it requires is the will of the majority of the people to take matters into their own hands and do that restructuring. We can’t wait for the powers that be to do that restructuring, they are very happy in their little bubble of affluence, and to hell with you.

 

 

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Our Streets.

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         A comment I received form an unknown source so can't certify its validity, but thought it was of interest.

THEN
        A reminder to those whose memory fails them.....
On Saturday 13th June 2020 large numbers of people defied lockdown restrictions to resist the eviction of Glenfrome Road. GRC Baliffs attempted to clear a big traveller site on the old gas works site in Bristol.
        Despite the large police presence, and the increased use of state power through the 'Coronavirus Act', the eviction went on for over 12 hours and solidarity was strong. GRC failed to evict the site.
NOW
        The company that paid for the eviction was Wales and West Utilities. They have just built a new £4 million Gas Haulage Depot on the Glenfrome Road site, and its up and running so we thought we'd pay them a visit.
        In the early hours of Friday 26th May, shots were fired with a slingshot over the perimeter fence of Wales and West Utilities, taking out two large first floor windows... A small reminder that we hold grudges, and that there are many ways to resist.
       Wales and West Utilities talk of 'sustainability' (the site is part of their "commitment to biodiversity") and new gas tech... Bristol City Council have helped fund the site. Wales and West own 35,000km of gas pipeline.
        Near the depot (unconnected to us) we noticed some graffiti: "Power to the Peaceful!" but we don't buy that concept.... and have no time for "pacifism"....... in the face of ecological collapse.... we call for rage and rowdy responses. Not peacefulness...
        The police were not peaceful when they used grenades at Saint-Soline against those who resisted the mega-basin. Solidarity with Serge Duteuil-Graziani who is in a coma and sustained major head injuries due to the grenades.
        The police were not peaceful when they killed Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans in Cardiff this week. Solidarity with the Cardiff rioters!
         Many companies with a shiny public image like Wales and West Utilities pay baliffs to do their dirty work.... Evicting people is big business, and there will be many more in Bristol this summer.
         There were beautiful riots when the 'Police Crime Sentencing and courts Bill' (PCSC) was passed (strength to those inside or awaiting trial!).
         This action is a reminder that the bill doesn't just effect those resisting, it also criminalises people's way of life if they choose not to live in homes made of bricks.

For a summer of disobedience and anarchy!
See you on the streets!

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Liberation.

 

        We live in hard times, poverty is increasing, more and more children go hungry, food banks are multiplying, destitution multiples, basic food is galloping out of reach of many, but hard times should be fertile soil for anarchists. It is so much easier to point to the anomalies and inequality of the system and should be obvious to most people. However, that is not always enough to rouse the people to anger and direct action. So what should anarchists do, perhaps Errico Malatesta points us in the right direction.

Quote from Great Anarchists by Dog Section Press, chapter on Malatesta.       

        "The important thing is not the victory of our plans, our projects, our utopias, which in any case need the confirmation of experience and can be --- developed and adapted to the real moral and material conditions of the age and place. What matters most is that the people--- lose their sheeplike instincts and habits which thousands of years of slavery have instilled in them, and learn to think and act freely. And it is to this great work of moral liberation that the anarchist must specifically dedicate themselves."

 No mean task but sounds like excellent advice.

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In Memory.

 

The following from Act For Freedom Now.

¡Punky Mauri Presente! In memory of Anarchist Mauricio Morales, 22 MAY 2009 -22 MAY 2023.

Before Going to Sleep

Before going to sleep I reflect on modernity
and I don’t get used to the artificial smell
Nor to the plastic that envelopes water,
nor to machines nor to military helmets,
Nor to ties and their suits.

My hands don’t get used to the artificial connection in virtual universes
Connected lives in wireless networks, my eyes search for the eternal fire of
rebellion among the multitude of corpses and only in isolated gazes, the
conscious individual emerges with dagger eyes that resist dying in the
democratic cemetery.
Before going to sleep I embrace chaos
as an idea that liberates my body and my mind
Because after all, it makes me feel alive.
I do not want to search for the grail that will liberate future societies.
My fingers search for the bloody flight of the destruction of the chains of
the rhythmic fire, of the close fire of power and its masters.
Upon sleeping, my actions are designed so that tomorrow, after waking up,
I will
Break the routine, in a solitary action, with my chest like a swollen stone,
by the destruction of this and of any society.
Do me a favor: see to it that anarchy lives.

---

Before dying in the sludge of the street we will imitate Mauricio Morales!

“Love yourself and be violent, beautifully violent, until everything is des- troyed. Remember that whatever violent action against those who promote equality is completely justified for the infinite amount of violence they sub- mit us to.

.…. Love yourself and combat terrorism, burn, conspire and sabotage and beviolent, beautifully violent, naturally violent, freely violent.”
-Mauri

 Comrade Mauri
You are with us!

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Keelie 41.

           Issue 41 of the Glasgow Keelie is out. As usual you'll find it at pickets, protests, demos and on the street, grab your free copy. Again it brings you all the dirt that the mainstream media brushes under the carpet. Catch up on how to get involved in making that better world for all, find out about the underhand dealings that are everyday occurrences for councils and businesses. You can also send in your personal stories on this insane economic system that shackles us to crap jobs, lousy wages and a never ending struggle for a decent life. Contact us here at Glasgow Keelie.

Read The Glasgow Keelie on line

 

 

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Bookfair.

          One week to go until the Red and Black Clydeside Bookfair and Gathering, the culmination of their May Week Celebrations. it takes place on Saturday 27th May, at the CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow. This is an event not to be missed. 21 stalls, discussions, talks, films, a chance to ramble through a variety of view all fighting for that better world for all. A chance to meet old friends, make new ones, chat, learn what is going on in our city, get involved.
         One of the stalls to look out for would Spirit of Revolt Archive, probably the largest collection in Scotland of anarchist and libertarian socialist history, comprising of, letters, post cards, banners, photos, serials, memorabilia and much more. Why not pay their website a visit before dropping in to have a chat with them at the Bookfair on Saturday. 

 

 

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Thoughts.

  Thoughts.

Image courtesy of Do Something

WAKE-UP CALL.

As the West grows fat
the Third World squirms and dies,
poverty devours their tomorrows
while the West swims in a sea of lies.
Look,   see their lacerated lives,
their pot bellies and spindle limbs
with hands stretching out towards you?
They’re not begging,
they’ve earned the right to demand.
Their poverty has kept us fat and warm
as we shaded our eyes from the light of reality,
well,    now they’re demanding.
Demanding we wake from our soft slumber
see their suffering,   grasp their hand,
 pull them from the blood sucking morass of poverty
inflicted on them by our sightless greed.
Our blindness stole their dad’s bowl of rice
our lassitude slew their brother
our flights of fashion starved their sister
our arrogance maimed their mother.

Image courtesy of Quora

 

FIRES OF THE FUTURE.

I am fire,
I surge, I hiss,
sometimes bursting forth in a flame
that lights up the world
illuminating unimagined dreams.
Then the black cloak
blankets out the glow.
Again all is dark,
but, still


beneath the surface
I surge, I hiss,
I endure, waiting, seeking,
building up pressure.
One day I will explode
destroying forever
the Tartarean crust of oppression.
I am fire,
I am the people. 

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Shafted!!

          If you are one of those who are still trying to work out who this government and system works for perhaps the following wee article will help you make up your mind.
         While the powers that be repeat their mantra that there is not enough money to pay NHS workers and others a decent wage, they can find plenty of money for propaganda for UK imperialism. Take Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, tax payers forked out £162 million of tax payers money for that pompous circus to please the parasite class. Then shortly after that we had the pomp to celebrate British imperialism with the circus coronation of Charles III costing the tax payer somewhere in the region of £100 million +. On the matter of this extortionate over the top lavish pomp and circus, Cabinet Officer minister Oliver Dowden had the audacity insisting the government and the king were 'mindful of ensuring that there is value for the taxpayer' and there will not be lavish or excess. So this is his idea of modest normality. All in all the The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) estimated that the addition of an extra Bank Holiday weekend would cost the Government £2.39 billion. Of course you have to factor in the cost of the massive security operation that these two circuses required in the eyes of our lords and masters.

No wonder they are laughing.

 

Image courtesy of GraziaDaily.

         Of course the parasite class are boasting about the fact that The British Beer and Pub Association estimates the coronation will generate an extra £120 million for pubs across the country with the hospitality industry also expecting a significant boost. So be happy, your money has helped the hospitality industry as it will gain immensely from you generosity.
       Away from the imperialist propaganda machine, other facts on who this system supports. While we all struggle to pay our bills and heat/fed our families, ASDA is consulting on cutting the wages of 7,000 workers, BT is paying off 55,000 workers and replacing them with AI.

      With a crumbling NHS, a decaying education system, a totally broken social service system, an increase in poverty and the an increase in the resulting mental illness, where in this jamboree of spending and job/wage cuts do you see anything that is for you benefit or well being? Enough is enough, we must support all workers taking strike action, their fight is our fight. We have to create that better society that is based on fairness, mutual aid, and freed from the profit motive that sees to the needs of all our people. 

 

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$ Demise!

Image courtesy of Youtube.

           We live in very dangerous times, what we are witnessing is the de-dollarisation of the world, in other words the crumbling of a very powerful empire. America ruled the world since the end of the second world war, by means of the SWIFT organisation. This used the dollar as the world's reserve currency, meaning that practically all the world had to deal in dollars for world trade. They had to buy those dollars from the U$A and the power of the SWIFT organisation meant that any country that did not play by their rules could be sanctioned and more or less excluded for world trade. All this made U$A a very rich and powerful country.
          More and more countries started to be totally dissatisfied with the power the U$A held over their country and sought other ways to try and trade. BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) grouping was born from this desire to control their own affairs. More and more countries have joined this grouping, making it an extremely large proportion of the world's trade who now trade in their own currencies, breaking loose for the dollar domination.
         Why do I see this as dangerous? Well the psychopaths that control the cesspool that is American politics are at the same time warmongers and will do anything to hold onto that dollar dominance as their fortunes depend on the dollar being dominant. Their bitter hatred of Russia and China has nothing to do with regimes or human rights, it is all to do with the fact that these two countries are the mainstay of the de-dollarisation of the world.
        The U$A at this moment has ringed China with nuclear bases, and is fighting a war with Russian on the Ukrainian front. If the dollar continues to lose ground they will have no hesitation in bombing China and Russia on the pretext of defending Taiwan and Ukraine and protecting democracy. The propaganda machine has already whipped up hatred of both Russia and China, this will be maintained until it reaches fever pitch, making the annihilation of millions seem like a good idea.
        The answer is not to get a new leader in Washington or else where, the only answer is to rid ourself of the state system and the capitalist economic system that keeps these psychopaths alive and gives them power to endanger the world for their personal gain.  

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Anti-War.

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         Monday May 15th. is International Conscientious Objectors Day, a day when we rightly mark in honour of all those who had the courage to refuse to be drafted into the state's military killing machine. Two world wars have seen thousands of individuals take a stand against the state process of murdering citizens who happen to live on another patch of this planet, and all the blood and misery shed is for power and wealth to the few. We owe a debt to these courageous individuals for their courageous stand in the face of brutal and savage state reprisals.
        Glasgow like most cities, towns and villages across the country has a proud band of conscientious objectors. To them we raise a clenched fist and say thank you.  

      The two short pieces from our Spirit of Revolt Archive T SOR 1-1-2 refer to Allan Burnett one of Glasgow's young courageous conscientious objectors who eventually ended living in New Zealand.

 

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A Con.

            

           It must be obvious now to anyone looking at the the way this government is throwing legislation through, they don't give a shit. They are fully aware that if they lose the next election there is no chance of the so called opposition reversing any of the draconian legislation they have passed. Anti-protest legislation, anti-strike legislation, anti-immigrant legislation, it is all perfectly safe in Labour's hands. Those naive enough to think that a change of Messiah sitting in No. 10 will somehow solve their problems, are like generations before them, going to be sadly disappointed. The answer is obviously, not to keep spinning the wheel and hoping it will be different next time round. We need a root and branch cutting of this greed driven exploitative system of insane economics. Why accept a system where the rules that effect the poor, vulnerable and ordinary people, are made by very rich individuals who all have a vested interest in keeping the economic disparity that enriches them at our expense. We pay them to shackle us to economic poverty and deprivation, while they live the life of luxury and opulence. Surely we have the imagination and ability to devise a system that is fair and sees to the needs of all our people, a system that sees the fruits of all our labour being used to build a society that benefits all our people fairly. Rather than live this insanity that feeds the parasite pompous few at the expense of the majority's well-being. At the moment we are being milked, conned and laughed at.

 

                                                 Image courtesy of Clive Lewis.

Image courtesy of CGTN

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Bookfair.

    

           Continuing on from May 1st., Red and Black Clydeside's next event celebrating May is the bookfair and gathering, at the CCA 350. Sauchiehall Street Glasgow, May 27th, 12 noon to 8pm. A must not miss affair, with talks, films, stalls, discussions and merry chatting with new and old comrades. See you there.

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Our Streets.

 

          Anarchist literature/magazines etc. on the streets seems to be disappearing, probably due to the rush to join the social media realm. However we abandon the streets at our peril. Of course there are still papers and magazines on the street, the Glasgow Keelie for one but we need to flood the streets with our ideas, theories and actions. It is on the streets that we meet new people, strangers who could be influenced by what we hand them. On social media we seem to be speaking to the same people all the time, it's not the way to win over the great politically apathetic silent majority, and we need them.
          Some publications from April 2023, try to get your hands on some, reprint if you can and throw them around. Look for more to spread the word, or better still, start your own and get on the street.

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Bent Knee.

 

           Now that the £250 million circus of ridiculous pomp paying homage to the UK imperialist past and parasite class, is over, and all paid for by you and I, I thought I would just make my opinion known. Only a fool or a coward bends their knee to another human being.

No Gods

No Kings

No masters

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