Never Mind The Ballots, Create the Resistance
The coming to
power of a radical right Tory administration will mean direct assaults on the
NHS, further austerity measures, increasing moves to a police state, and a
widening gap between the super-rich and the mass of the population. They will
wage class war against us and we must respond with the strengthening of our
networks of mutual aid and solidarity, with the growing of social movements
independent from political parties, based on mass assemblies and mandating of
delegates. We must develop activity in the workplace, among tenants and
renters, with anti-eviction actions, with migrant solidarity with mobilisations
against deportations, to protect our services, whether the NHS or local
services under threat from councils. Remember, in France a vast strike movement
has developed under the Macron regime. Like Johnson, Macron has launched
ferocious austerity measures against the working class and anger against his
rule is on the rise. Alongside and intimately connected to these social
movements, must be the development of a culture of resistance, of inclusive
social centres and food networks. We have seen the power of the billionaire
press in the last month or so, as well as the blatant bias of the BBC. We must
develop our own media, that means not just our social media, which can often
operate in a bubble, but the development of street agitation with the
production of widely distributed newssheets and other printed propaganda.
The new Johnson
administration seems powerful and now deeply entrenched. But remember, the
British ruling class is divided like never before. On one hand we have social
democratic nationalists like Plaid Cymru and the SNP looking towards exit from
the United Kingdom, increasing problems in Northern Ireland, and a Conservative
Party seriously damaged by Brexit. As well as this there are continuing
problems for the monarchy, a cornerstone of the system. Not only has Labourite
social democracy been hit below the waterline, but the project by factions
within the ruling class to construct a new centrist party made up of the
LibDems, One Nation Tories, and the Labour right and centre, has ended up
wrecked on the reefs. In this scenario, we should look towards developing a
response in the spheres mentioned above. This will not be an easy fix, but will
require determined action and propaganda over the coming months and years.
Convened by the London Anarchist Communist Group.
Speakers from the ACG, Angry Workers of the World and South Essex Radical Media
(other speakers to be confirmed.
2pm, Sunday January 19th at May Day Rooms, 88
Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DH, Nearest tubes St Paul’s, Blackfriars.
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