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From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: STUFF  THEIR  WAR !
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:31:26 -0000



STUFF  THEIR  WAR !

King George Bush the Second of America isn't exactly the sharpest pencil in
the box.  He doesn't have the brains to see
the big picture. But then, he doesn't need to. He just does the bidding of
those who are really running America. He is a figurehead selected for office
on a dodgy minority vote, but one thing he does have going for him is the
enthusiastic support of the oil companies. After all, like his daddy,
Georgie is an oil company executive. Oil company executives don't actually
handle the dirty stuff themselves   -   they just handle the nice green
dollars it brings in. The plan to build a pipeline to bring billions of
dollars worth of oil out from Central Asia led to a war in Afghanistan. Now
the oil companies are planning another war against Iraq. It's true that
Saddam Hussein is a very nasty dictator. But the oil companies have no
problem with that. They support loads of nasty regimes. No, the problem is
that Sadam gets in their way.  So the oil bosses demand that many thousands
of innocent people must die in the cause of even greater profits. The
figurehead Bush carries out their orders, and Tony Blair, the puppet of a
puppet, drags  his  reluctant country along.

Despite his puppet-second-class status, Tony has delusions of grandeur. He
thinks He is Maggie Thatcher. Because his idol was able to posture as a
"great war leader" over the Falklands, he thinks he can do the same. He has
a rude awakening coming. Tony has apparently forgotten that we anarchists,
along with masses of other folk,  defeated  Maggie when she introduced the
poll tax, even though she was in a much stronger position than he is now.
Already, the possibility of war has led to the biggest anti-war protests
this country has ever seen. As preparations for war continue, that
opposition will intensify. Also, while Tony has had his eye on warmongering
in foreign parts, the class struggle is very much back on the agenda at
home. One of the best ways the working class of this country can help those
in other countries threatened by our warmongers is by us vigorously
asserting our own demands.

As preparations for war intensify, the anti-war movement will have to turn
more and more to direct action. While obviously a certain amount of
co-ordination is necessary for this, what we do  NOT  want is any Marxist
grouping seeking to set itself up as the "leadership" of the movement,
sounding militant while in practice stifling initiative. The way to defeat
Tony Blair  AND  Georgie Bush is through people being prepared to take
direct action without asking anybody's permission.  So, Stuff Your
Warmongering !  And while we're at it, Stuff Your Calls For Orderly Protest
! The way to defeat the militaristic habit of giving and taking orders is
through disobedience.

For anarchists, direct action and solidarity are the means to change the
world. Only working class folk being in total control of their own struggles
can create a society based on liberty, equality and solidarity. REAL
socialism can only be created from
the bottom-up. By applying our ideals in the struggle today, we build the
world of the future!

{Published by a number of class struggle Anarchist groups in Scotland acting
together. If you are involved in class struggle and/or the anti-war
movement, or if you just want to wipe the smirk off Tony's mug, or if you
want to learn more about class struggle anarchism, get in touch.
Contacts: ...........)




   

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