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‘Democracy’ has arrived in Libya

Marie Lynam
26th August 2011 at 09:41
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Hello comrades

A peoples’ rising - in this case by ‘the youth of Libya’, according to Stuart - that follows behind an NTC with the air-and-ground support of the US & NATO, cannot possibly have opened the road ‘to a democratic period’, as Stuart would have us believe.
The foreign workers of Libya, the large amount of them who were working in Libya, were scared away by the peoples’ rising. The workers returned massively to Tunisia and Egypt, and overflowed into Southern Europe.
In not trying to incorporate this huge proletarian force, the peoples’ rising showed exactly was it was not: Not of the people, and even less of the working class. And it showed exactly what it was: An arm of the world bosses.
Proofs are aplenty: monarchist flag, mercenaries, concealed SAS and Israeli trainers, no end of lies, no socialist demand, no mention of better trade unions, submission to the NTC - and the NCT, devoid of social support, having to rely entirely on the United Bombs of Global Capitalism.
‘Now the workers and students must use the democratic space they have won’, says Stuart.
But there is no democratic space won. For the good reason that no democratic space was asked for.
If democratic space means ‘genuine trade unions or socialist organisations’, as Stuart puts it, the popular rising never mentioned it; for the good reason that, for the masters of the popular rising, ‘democratic space’ means privatisation, personal enrichment, destruction of the structures for the collective good, just as in Iraq.
Having placed itself between the teeth of the imperialist beast, several things now face the peoples’ rising: [continue/comment...]

Aggravated shopping

Andrew Fisher
26th August 2011 at 08:12
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My eyewitness account of the rioting in Croydon town centre on 8 August (also appears in September issue of Labour Briefing) [continue/comment...]
Tags: croydon (1) | looting (2) | police (3) | riots (4)

A Cabinet of Looters

Andrew Fisher
14th August 2011 at 06:51
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Most of them were already millionaires, but here’s what they allegedly tried to ‘loot’ from the taxpayer before the MPs’ expenses scandal broke in 2008/09: [continue/comment...]
Tags: coalition government (1) | looting (2) | riots (4)

You’ve never had it so bad

Andrew Fisher
13th August 2011 at 15:27
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Like many others, my youth shaped my politics. Born in 1979, I believe there were several events and experiences that shaped me and the politics I have today. But although growing up under Thatcher – witnessing the bigotry directed at single mothers like my own, the introduction of the Poll Tax, the freezing of the student grant when my sister went to university in 1989 (which appears like a golden age now) – I consider myself lucky. [continue/comment...]
Tags: education (1) | police (3) | riots (4) | unemployment (1) | university (1) | young people (1) | youth (1)

Try the High Finance Looters

Marie Lynam
9th August 2011 at 08:47
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Hello all the comrades
The general press talks of ‘mobs of looters’ (and criminals).  [continue/comment...]

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