Death for Bread!

           Once again Spirit of Revolt, and Glasgow Keelie Group, with assistance from other comrades put on a very moving and poignant display on Glasgow Green Drying Green area to mark Workers Memorial Day. The display will stay until after the May Day picnic on the Green May 1st. 3pm, to be held on the Drying Green, come along and celebrate workers day, May Day on The Green. This year saw the addition of high vis jackets, listing some of the deaths, illnesses and injuries people suffer from just trying to earn their daily bread. In no civilised society should working to survive risk life and limb, however in this society, where profit is the main motive of production, human welfare is listed as a cost and must be minimised to help increase profits for the shareholders who seldom indulge in the actual work, they just reap the bonuses. Not until we the workers own the means of production and distribution will we see human safety and well being at the top of the list. Only we, the ordinary people can create that environment, don't expect the shareholders and financiers to alter a system that allows them to live a life of luxury at other people's expense.

 

 

 

 

 

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Fiddlers!!

 

                                                  Image courtesy of Dorset Eye.

     How much lying, cheating and corruption will we the public accept from the powers that be before we call, enough is enough, and get rid of the whole rotten bunch of self seeking, money grabbing charlatans for once and for all.  From the top to the bottom of the centre of this power edifice it stinks like a sewer. Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak over £700 million personal wealth, but forgot to mention that tax payers money he was handing out to businesses, that his wife would gain financially. Nadhim Zahawi, ex-chancellor had to pay the tax office millions to settle a little taxable amount that he "FORGOT"  to mention. MPs and ministers being found to have take money for lobbying and had to resign. MPs taking 2nd and 3rd. jobs worth more than their sallary. Peerages for friends and those who donate to the party funds. Others charged with sexual offenses, bullying and intimidating behavior, and let's not forget the partying during lock-down. Most MPs are extremely rich, yet we continue to pay them fat salaries plus extortionate expense and subsidised meals at the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption. They live the life of luxury at our expense, while we struggle for a half decent standard of living. Surely we can come up with a better system than this cesspool that controls our everyday life.

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Democracy!

                                               Image courtesy of Crowdfunder.

       Democracy has never seen the light of day in this patch of land known as the United Kingdom. We have moved from divine rights of monarchs to a so called constitutional monarchy, where a person elected by the people goes to the monarch to ask permission to form a government. That same monarch signs the death warrants of individuals in certain places known as crown dependencies. So it should come as no surprise that the subservient elected government should continue this system of control to keep the power and wealth where it is. This requires total control over the population. Hence all the draconian measures to ban protests, make strikes illegal and censor what you can say or read. The following quote gives some idea of how UK democracy works.

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The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free speech advocates. A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.”

Recently we discussed the arrest of a woman who was praying to herself near an abortion clinic. English courts have seen criminalized “toxic ideologies” as part of this crackdown on free speech.

                                     Image courtesy of The Guardian.

              All this makes it easier for the state to shut you down if it doesn't like what you are saying or doing, hardly the hallmark of democracy. Of course all this clampdown on freedom of expression requires a massive surveillance system, which the state already has but wishes to push this further in their favour. They are now calling for the end of encrypted messages, so that they can snoop on anything and everything you might wish to send to friends and family. It is all backed up by those boys in blue, known for racism, homophobic attitudes and abuse of power.
          If we want a democracy then we have to get rid of the state system, the power structure that reinforces that system, we have to end this system where wealth means power. Democracy can only survive in a free and equal system of mutual aid and co-operation a system without borders, leaders and the profit motive. We could try the one system that stands for these things, it's called anarchism.

 

Image courtesy of Nation News Hour.

 

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