From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: Scottish anarchist leaflet
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:33:03 -0000




I don't know if either Iain or myself ever sent the anti-war
leaflet which the Scottish anarchists have been distributing
to the anarchy-list. Anyway, here it is, or at least the text
of it. The actual printed version has, as well as the text,
a ragged black banner heading designed by Iain, and a photo
of a cop beating a demonstrator with the caption "WARNING:
Continued willingness to follow leaders is getting us nowhere".

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FIGHT  THE  RICH

NOT  THEIR  WARS !

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 mere 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.

YOU  HAVE  THE  POWER  TO  END  THIS  WAR :  USE  IT !

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: You can contact several different groups

GAIA  (Glasgow Anarchists and Independent Autonomists)
(gaia2k-AT-hotmail.com)

Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh
(www.autonomous.org.uk)
17 West Montgomery Place,
Edinburgh EH7 5HA
0131-557-6262

Anarchist Federation of Alba
(www.afed.org.uk)

Class War
(glasgowcw-AT-hotmail.com)

IWW  Clydeside
( www.iwwclydeside.org.uk)

heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk
01382-770877

IWW Edinburgh
(edinburghiww-AT-yahoo.co.uk)
or write c/o ACE

for Tayside, ring Andy
on 07712 045 376

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