Called by Coalition of Resistance and Black Activists Rise Against the Cuts
Video from the public meeting called by Coalition of Resistance and Black Activists Rise Against the Cuts. What do the recent riots in Britain mean? Why are they happening? What can we do in response?
John McDonnell MP
Lee Jasper (Barac)
Clare Solomon (ed Springtime: the new student rebellion)
Zita Holbourne (PCS and Barac)
Andrew Murray (Unite the Union)
Josie Fraser (mother of Demetre Fraser death in custody)
Merlin Emmanuel (Smiley Culture)
Symeon Brown (youth activist in Haringey)
James Meadway (chief economist New Economics Foundation)
Thursday 11 August
7pm
The Venue, University of London Union
Malet Street,
London, WC1
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If you ally yourselves with the scum from the present riots you will have played into the hands of Capital.
The Political and Economic Situation is an Oblivion of Hopelessness
under the Eternal Monopoly Capitalist Clique of Rich Politicians .
We Need Social Justice and the Redistribution of Wealth Not Nuclear
Weapons or an Mps’s Expenses Gravytrain
We Need a New Government that Serves the Many Not the Few
Burnt Cars and Smashed Shop Windows by Youths is one Thing but the
Bloodshed and Misery Caused by the UK Regimes since 2000 Invasion of
Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya is Far Higher .
Do these Politicians have to Live with the Consequences of their
Shops being Burnt to the Ground or Go Hungry in Inner City Squalor
and Deprivation.
No they just Grin their Faces turn up for Press Conferences and Photo
Opportunities and Live the Lives of Riley .
The State of the Country is a Disgusting Mess and We Need Better
Domestic Policies and a Truly Ethical Foreign Policy
They Attack Libya but Yet what is Done about the Plight of Tibet ?
Having Experienced Anti Social Behaviour in Town Centres from Yobbos
I Regret the Lack of a Community Police Presence as Town Centres can
be Frightening and Dangerous Places but this is the Fault of Politicians
as they have Taken Police Off the Streets and Will Not have Yobs Flogged
for their Harassment and Threatening Conduct like Kicking Phoneboxes and
Hitting Phone Boxes with Metal Sticks
A Good Strong Police Force that Protects People as Well as Property is
a Public Service that Destructive Public Spending Cuts Denies Ordinary
People outside the Ivory Tower of Power and Influence
How the left should respond to the riots http://tmponline.org/BK
It is my Conclusion that Many ” Mainstream ” ” Newspapers ” are Just
Regime Propaganda .
We Do Need Streets Safe to Walk On but the Actions of Idiotic Politicians
in Removing Police from the Streets has made Not so Safe as Back in the
1950′s.
We Also Need as a Necessity a Common Sense Government which Puts the
Welfare of the Poor and Vulnerable before War Mongering as in Afghanistan
Iraq and Libya since 2000
A Government Free of Politicians and their Divide and Rule Political Parties
Well done John McDonnell and the others in calling for this meeting.
What is needed is courageous leadership from the opposition (evidently lacking from others in the Labour mainstream) and a social analysis of what has happened leading to immediate action. I suggest calling for the end of this government and a general election asap.
I cannot believe how devious, arrogant and ignorant the ConDem are. Those in positions of power are morally bankrupt, our government/media/financial system is evidently shallow/insensitive/greedy and corrupt, therefore calling these riots simply “mindless” violence is just a well aimed tactic to distract us from THEIR OWN MINDLESS VIOLENCE – THAT MINDLESS VIOLENCE OF TORY POLICIES against the social fabric of this country.
Down with this government!
Whilst Rioting by Council Tenants May Not be the Most Peaceful of Pasttimes
Neither is Politicians who have Dragged Us into the Bloody Wars of Afghanistan Iraq and Libya
The Arrogance of ” Prime Minister ” David Cameron in Saying that Council
Tenants could Face Eviction from Council Housing if Found Rioting is
Beyond Diabolical.
Will Politicians who have Supported the Bloody Wars Face Eviction
from their Mansions ?
All Calls for State Repression must be Resisted .
The Destructiveness of the Regimes Cut’s are Beyond Question.
That their Resignation is in Order is also Beyond Question.
Save Public Services and Scrap Parliament
We have such short memories do we not? For me right now nothing better sums up the sorry and sick state of Britain than this juxtaposition.
A woman thieves £18,000 from the taxpayer (It’s actually thought to be closer to £33,000 if they could prove it). She is allowed to pay it back and keep her job and living. On Thursday afternoon last this woman even had the gall to stand up and speak in Parliament on the ‘Lawlessness’ of the riots. Without even the need for a hoody or any form of face covering.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/11/mps-expenses-scandal-hazel-blears-fighting-for-job-over-18k-tax-dodge-115875-21348438/
Juxtapositioned with this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/poll/2011/aug/12/riots-water-theft-punishment
Says it all. If anyone calls that justice you need to buy some new scales me thinks. It’s fecking obscene.
Maybe when a prime minister or leader of the opposition can bring to justice the ‘sick grasping yob’s’ sat alongside and behind them, the young would start to have role models other than ‘Hand in the bloody till’ criminals like Hazel Blears and the rest. Of all parties.
This needs a damn site more than an election, does it not? Otherwise we just go on swopping new gangsters for the last one’s.
It is Out of George Orwell’s Animal Farm British ” Justice ” .
War Criminal Politicians are Still Living the Life of Riley
In 2010 The UK Sold Tear Gas,Crowd Control Armament and Sniper Rifles
to Bahrain
There was £6.8 Million of Arms Trade with Egypt under the Evil
and Tyrannical Mubarrak Regime in 2010 and £19 Million to Jordan.
Money for Warfare What about Public Services
The Lack of Opposition from the UK Regime by Still Far too Many
the Diabolical Cost of Existing and what One Hears about Rip Off
Railway Fares being Increased makes One Realise what a Cloud
Chaos and Cuckooland the UK under the Cameron Clegg Regime is.
Politicians Are in Cloud Cuckoo Land to Expect the Poor to be
Any Further Impoverished
Redistribution of Wealth from Rich to Poor Now
Abolish Paperwork Bureaucracy and Parliament
We Need Government that Cares Not Paperwork Dummies and Lackeys
People Need to be Out Protesting Not Saturating Infront of the
Oblivion Box of Television
Nothing Less than Revolution Political and Economic is the Answer to
Saving and Rebuilding Public Services and Having a Decent Government .
We Need a Fresh Start Away from the Lib Lab Con Eternal Monopoly
Money for Public Services Not the Destructive Violence of the War’s in
Afghanistan and Libya
The Evil of Capitalism has Spawned Greed and Selfishness together with
Suffering and Oppression
From Diabolical Price Rises in Food Items by a Third to Over Priced
Postage Stamps which Disgusting Enough at 36 Pence some Greedy Corner
Shop Owners Arrogantly Charge More.
Profit Profit Profit for Some and Poverty Poverty Poverty for the
Oppressed Victims
Studying Huey Long’s Share the Wealth Program it makes for Far
Better and Fairer Sharing of Wealth and Access to Advancement than
the Present Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer Situation of Today.
Here are Key Planks of the Share Our Wealth Program of the Kingfish
Huey Long
No person would be allowed to accumulate a personal net worth of more than 300 times the average family fortune, which would limit personal assets to between $5 million and $8 million. A graduated capital levy tax would be assessed on all persons with a net worth exceeding $1 million.
Annual incomes would be limited to $1 million and inheritances would be capped at $5 million.
Every family was to be furnished with a homestead allowance of not less than one-third the average family wealth of the country. Every family was to be guaranteed an annual family income of at least $2,000 to $2,500, or not less than one-third of the average annual family income in the United States. Yearly income, however, cannot exceed more than 300 times the size of the average family income.
An old-age pension would be made available for all persons over 60.
To balance agricultural production, the government would preserve/store surplus goods, abolishing the practice of destroying surplus food and other necessities due to lack of purchasing power.
Veterans would be paid what they were owed (a pension and healthcare benefits).
Free education and training for all students to have equal opportunities in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions for training in the professions and vocations of life.
The raising of revenue and taxes for the support of this program was to come from the reduction of swollen fortunes from the top, as well as for the support of public works to give employment whenever there may be any slackening necessary in private enterprise
More Social Justice than the Present Abyss of Slave Market Capitalism
Sadly Freeman/Freedom you seem to be talking to yourself. Literally. Sums this shabby little ‘spiv’ market stall called Britain up. Does it not? Though I am still listening and shouting.
‘If Thatcher wins tomorrow, do not be old, do not be sick, do not be young, do not be unemployed’. Neil Kinnock at the 87 election. Prophetic what? I wonder what ever happened to him. I wonder what ever happened to a Labour Party. Who knows? Answers on a postcard please.
All I know is Thatcher did win. She and her chums, including in the Labour Party, still are winning. We have the huge economic success before us now. Are you enjoying it?
Just how many more fucking ‘losers’ does the bitch and her chums have to create from street to street, from workplace to workplace, before most get she is not exactly ‘good’ for any of us. Never fucking was.
4th May 1979. Something in the UK died that night.
So seemingly it’s just ghosts now talking to ourselves. Wake up.
Indeed it is like Talking to a Brickwall this Capitalist Oblivion
that Britain is .
I Agree that Something Died upon the 4th of May 1979
Common Sense and Compassion
Shame Thatcher was Not made to Resign Earlier
Britain Wake Up
Resistance to Tyranny and Oppression via Peaceful Political Protest is
our Right.
It is Capitalism which is a Crime against Human Rights