Here Comes Britain, Again

[Rakhmetov]

Workers of all countries, Unite!!! Kick the bastards out. Smash the state!!! Let the nonviolent criminals from the prisons!!!


http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/26-1

[Le Socialiste]

Organizers said up to 500,000 people participated in the march, whose carnival-like atmosphere was briefly marred by black-clad anarchists who smashed a few shop windows, flung paint bombs and attacked luxury icons such as the Ritz Hotel.

In Hyde Park, the leader of the opposition Labor Party ridiculed Prime Minister David Cameron's vision of a "Big Society" full of citizen volunteers who plug the holes left by cuts in government spending.

"You wanted to create a Big Society. This is the Big Society, the big society united against what your government is doing to our country," Ed Miliband said in a speech that invoked Martin Luther King Jr. and the American civil rights movement. "We stand today not for the minority. We stand today for the mainstream majority of Britain."

The Labor Party, which was kicked out by voters in May after 13 years in power, acknowledges that some cuts are unavoidable to shrink a deficit built up largely under its watch. But it says the scale and pace of the austerity plan put forward by the Conservative Party-led government will strangle Britain's fledgling economic recovery and hurt the most vulnerable members of society.


Right...:laugh:

This always gets me! People marching peacefully down streets, chanting their political slogans...then the protest ends and they go back home, to work, only to watch the ruling-classes implement the very things they demonstrated against. Peaceful protest has its place, surely, but the people require a sense of militant solidarity in order to ensure the success of their movement. And surely socialism cannot be wholly achieved listening to the bankrupt cronyism of the Labor Party. They are just as beholden to Big Business as the Conservatives! Elect them, only to receive the exact same exploitative measures? Come on, folks. Surely we can do better.

[human strike]

In fairness, it was more than a few smashed windows...

[Le Socialiste]

Were you there?

[Rusty Shackleford]

the anti-cuts protests in the UK are part of a movement. it has impact and potential.