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.

 

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         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!

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           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.

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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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entertainment.

 

         Wednesday's Red and Black Clydeside Poetry and Music night at Red Rosa's,  was  a great night of pleasant and sometimes moving entertainment. A great mix of guitar, banjo, mouthorgan, singing and poetry. If you missed it don't fret, there will be another one coming along soon. A big thank you to the performers and those who turned up to enjoy the night.

 

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Insurrection.

 

         For May “Read of the Month” our choice is Insurrection, No’s 1 to 3, so once again Spirit of Revolt brings you three anarchist magazines to give you a wee insight to what we at Spirit of Revolt carry in our archive.The selection is from our Bratach Dubh Collection SOR 5-6-40. If you like what you read here, and live local to Glasgow, why not volunteer an hour or two a week to help with the scanning, listing etc. you would helping to digitise the largest anarchist libertarian socialist archive in Scotland, making the material free and easily available to the public We will cover your bus fares.  Visit Spirit of Revolt Contact page.

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Poetry.

 

             A reminder that the next event by Red and Black Clydeside to mark May Week, will be the Poetry and Music Night at Red Rosa's, 195 London Road, Calton, Glasgow, May 3rd. A night to come and chat then settle down for some poetry and music, a pleasant night guaranteed.  

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May Day.

 

          Spirit of Revolt's May Day picnic on the Green, despite changing weather, can be counted as a success. Though not as many turned up as we would have liked, but the Workers Memorial display attracted lots of passers-by, and by the amount of literature that we managed to hand out, it certainly was a great success. We managed to distribute lots of Anarchist Critic, Glasgow Keelies, Red and Black Poetry night leaflets, Red and Black Bookfair and Gathering leaflets, Spirit of Revolt business cards, plus lots of Radical Glasgow History Project leaflets. Encouragingly they were all taken with some enthusiasm. A big thank you to all those who turned up.

Two further coming events to mark Red and Black Clydeside May Week

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