Glasgow's march and
rally, Day of Action, today, November 30, was probably the largest
protest march seen in the city since the demonstration against the
Iraq war. It was large by anybody's standard. Chatting to people on
the pavement as I gave out leaflets I was pleased by the welcome
response I was receiving and the eagerness for a leaflet and
information. On Glassford street as I handed a leaflet to a woman who
was standing watching the march go past, she smiled and said, “That
is the most beautiful thing I have seen in years, good on them.”
That I believe is the most common response among the ordinary people
of our city.
The public are
aware that they are being ripped-off by a bunch of wealth parasites,
they are aware that the millionaire government are lying to them,
they are aware that the politicians are in the pocket of the corrupt
bankers, and they are pissed-off with the lot of them. Let's hope
that the public in their anger, come together not just to protect
pensions, not just to stop the cuts, but to change the system. Our
living standards are heading to the Victorian era, our kids education
is being decimated, our social services are being dismantled, our
health service is being privatised, if we have to stop all of that we
have to change the system.
The system that
this government willing presides over and eagerly pursues, is
responsible for callous and cruel criminal acts. It is responsible
for throwing well over 1 million of our young people on the dole,
stifling their potential for a decent life, and destroying a
multitude of dreams and hopes. Their system is responsible for
another brutal crime, that of massively increasing child poverty in
this country. Their attack on the ordinary people, is at all stages of
their life, increase child poverty, massive youth unemployment,
soaring adult unemployment, and decimation of pensions. Add to that
the wage cuts/freezes, and destruction of social services, while the
rich get richer and you see the extent of their attack on the
ordinary people and you can only come to one conclusion, they see it
as what it is, class war. Only when we see it as the same, and fight
back to destroy their power and change the system, to one that sees
to the needs of all our people, only then will we eliminate all the
problems listed above.
