TheVoiceOfTheVoiceless
21st April 2011, 06:37
If I may be so bold as to invoke the language of mister Samuel Fielden: The Law is framed for those who would enslave you; do not think for a moment that those who write and sign the laws do not remember by whom their election campaigns are funded. Therefore we must be rebels against it, throttle it, impede it at every turn, and do all in our power to kill it! A war has been declared upon us and our efforts to secure for ourselves and for our families such lives as all men deserve, being as they are men and not merely machines or beast of burden- and the Law has sided squarely with those who would turn you once again into peasants and serfs. What recourse have we but the strong arm of resistance and refusal? Any animal will resist when it is trampled upon; are men less than dogs? A single man, like a single finger, is weak. Yet when the fingers come together against the palm of the hand, they form the might of the fist. The palm is the union and the hand is all the working men and women of the world! Together, we shall smite the aristocrats of the modern corporatocracy, crush the machinations of the State and grind to dust the system by which they have for so many decades stolen the wealth owned and created by the working class and given it to themselves. The strong hand of the working class can and must build anew a better world and a system which truly serves the People themselves.
Alone, we are weak, but when we stand together we are the unstoppable force of history itself, who hold the power to build up or tear down the foundations of the world. Are the hands which build the rails weak? Are the hands which build up the mighty skyscrapers which tower over men weaker than those which sign the Laws or count the currency to be doled out among the politicians who do as they are told by their corporate masters? Are those who built the roads too weak to hold them for ourselves? Assuredly not! Without us there are no cities! Without us there is no labour! Without us is nothing created! Therefore all that is built by the hands of the proletariat belongs by right of our labour to the working class! If we stand united, they cannot resist our mighty will- there are no police to suppress us if we refuse to turn against our own comrades and without us their armies are without soldiers to fight to oppress our neighbors!
So let us come together, as we once did in the past, all working men and women! We mustn't let them to continue to divide us by race, by artificial loyalty to the nation-states they create in their minds, by religious creed or place of birth, We must not allow them to divide us by sex, gender, or occupation. Nor by imaginary distinctions such as political party or meaningless labels. Do you not see that such divisions are the means by which they are able to conquer us all? Together we must stand, as a single mass, under a single standard, as the unstoppable armies of progress itself. The strength of the proletariat comes from the unity of all who labour.
Alone, we are weak, but when we stand together we are the unstoppable force of history itself, who hold the power to build up or tear down the foundations of the world. Are the hands which build the rails weak? Are the hands which build up the mighty skyscrapers which tower over men weaker than those which sign the Laws or count the currency to be doled out among the politicians who do as they are told by their corporate masters? Are those who built the roads too weak to hold them for ourselves? Assuredly not! Without us there are no cities! Without us there is no labour! Without us is nothing created! Therefore all that is built by the hands of the proletariat belongs by right of our labour to the working class! If we stand united, they cannot resist our mighty will- there are no police to suppress us if we refuse to turn against our own comrades and without us their armies are without soldiers to fight to oppress our neighbors!
So let us come together, as we once did in the past, all working men and women! We mustn't let them to continue to divide us by race, by artificial loyalty to the nation-states they create in their minds, by religious creed or place of birth, We must not allow them to divide us by sex, gender, or occupation. Nor by imaginary distinctions such as political party or meaningless labels. Do you not see that such divisions are the means by which they are able to conquer us all? Together we must stand, as a single mass, under a single standard, as the unstoppable armies of progress itself. The strength of the proletariat comes from the unity of all who labour.