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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