Prepare.

 

       The Covid19 seems to be on the decline here in UK, though we should still be very cautious on how we conduct ourselves in public. However, I think we should be shifting our main focus on the aftermath. We are facing massive unemployment and that of course, will hit the ordinary people hard. The list of companies planning to pay off workers grows by the day. Yes, we will get the usual rhetoric from our bungling political ballerinas  about how they will put in place schemes to help get the unemployed back to work. This usually translates into giving big business millions of tax payers money to employ some more people. The money will be taken up, but the jobs will be minimal. 

     With the downturn in employment there is a downturn in tax revenue to the state apparatus, this added to the monumental debt that the government has run up, will mean a savage cut in government spending. You all know what that means for the ordinary people of this country. A freeze of public sector workers pay, possible cuts, or having to do more work for the same pay, as the government cuts staff levels. more zero hours contracts, decimating working conditions, there's a queue waiting to take your job, drastic cuts to all social services, closure of public facilities, libraries, swimming pools, etc. and of course more privatisation as the state farms out more services to the private sector and sells of public assets to its corporate buddies, to help raise cash. Under our economic system there will be no quick fix, we the ordinary people will have to grin and bear it for some considerable time to come.

 I'm a very rich banker, trust me!!

    Or of course, we can start to organise our communities around mutual aid, that grows independence and solidarity across our communities and at the same time frees us from the dependency of the profit making market place of capitalism. There are a multitude of ideas from swap shops, clothes, books, toys, etc. to skill sharing schemes. I'm sure our imagination and skills can come up with a catalogue of ways we can enhance our lives and at the same time, short circuit and undermine, the corporate beasts that would rather you starved than they run without a profit.

   There is a storm coming, we can prepare to defend ourselves, or we can appeal to our rich and wealthy lords and masters, to please help us and give us a wee handout.

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People Power,

        Civid19 has woven a strange new world, the worst of it has yet to unfold. Unemployment, poverty, slashing of social services, cutting back on working conditions, increase in zero hours contracts and part-time jobs. All siting on the near horizon. Sorry if I depress you, but I don't see an alternative, unless we smash the existing system and think again but building one fit for purpose, of seeing to the needs of all our people, with fairness and justice. As long as we tolerate pampered privilege based on wealth and hereditary status, having all the power, we are going to repeat the viciousness of this economic system inequality and injustice.

We Have The Power.

Empty streets,with empty shops,
queues forming at the job centre,
doorway beds and hungry children,
watched over by mean eyed cops,
Food-banks growing by the hour.

City razzle-dazzle just rusty remnants,
shopping malls now empty caverns,
home to starlings, pigeons, magpies,
zero hours, part-time workers, live in
homes where ambition fails to flower.
Shiny politicians peddling illusions,
grin and bear it, there’s pie in the sky,
follow the Messiah, he’ll get you there,
quietly swallow their empty promises,
so they can live in their ivory towers.
This world exists by our acceptance,
blindly following their biased rule-book,
failing to realise that we the people,
builders of the world by sweat and pain,
are the ones who really hold the power.

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A Concerted Attack, Requires A Concerted Defence.

      The living conditions of the ordinary people of this country are under attack as never before, and on so many fronts it is imperative that we join all our campaigns into one massive revolt against the financial Mafia's grand plan. This grand plan is being implemented by the Oxbridge millionaire cabal, sitting in The Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption, and consists of slashing all social services and the demolishing of our hard won working conditions, We have ATOS destroying the lives of the sick and disabled, we have the bedroom tax attacking the poor, we have workfare getting you to work for the multinationals for no wages, and then we have the "zero hours" contracts, tying you to a phone in the hope that you get a few hours work. This is not going to stop until we stop it, you will not wake up tomorrow and find that they have turned all compassionate and are reversing the damage done by their brutal and vicious assault.

      If you don't know where to get involved you could contact your local Clydeside IWW, Anarchist Federation, or Glasgow Against ATOS, a good place to start would be the Glasgow Games Monitor 2014. Here is some info from them:

A wee digest of new posts up on the site. Note especially the important new documentation of Alex Salmond's visit to the Accord Centre:

Accord Centre:    Alex Salmond vist to the Accord centre (video and full transcription): http://gamesmonitor2014.org/2013/08/08/alex-salmond-at-the-accord-centre-a-promise-unfulfilled/

Image gallery of selected City Council and Scottish Government letters to the Accord: http://gamesmonitor2014.org/2013/08/03/save-the-accord-letters/Atos:

Image gallery of Chris Hoy Velodrome occupation: http://gamesmonitor2014.org/2013/08/03/photos-from-the-velodrome-occupation/

Games Monitor comment on 'Atos kills' and the Games: http://gamesmonitor2014.org/2013/08/08/atos-kills-and-it-has-accomplices/

Documentation of the 'Dirty Laundry' event on Glasgow Green, 3rd, August (Atos protestors included): http://gamesmonitor2014.org/2013/08/07/documentation-of-glasgows-dirty-laundry-event/

Cheers, Glasgow Games Monitor 2014: http://gamesmonitor2014.org/

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