It has been a long time since any
one has seriously said, "Hey—let's try something completely different.
Lets dump all the stuff we do that just doesn't work anymore and let's try
something different." As this statement points out we have used all these
old methods and they just don't work. Almost anything we do different needs to
be tried.
-សតិវ អតុ
From REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS:
With another reactionary Tory government in office
people are wondering what
can be done to beat off further oppression and exploitation of the great mass
of the people. Here are
some answers which won’t work:
· Reclaim
the Labour Party for socialism. Most leftists have been banging on
about this for decades. The
more they try to radicalise Labour the more reactionary it becomes. It is a futile project.
· Form a
new left wing party. Left Unity and the Socialist and Trade
Unionist Coalition have been standing in elections and getting poor
results. They put forward
reformist, social democratic platforms. Their
line is that if only we elect the right people than everything will be all
right. They fail to recognise that we have the wrong system, a fake system of
“democracy” designed to keep the rich rich and make them richer. It’s the system which needs changing.
· Carry
on with the old campaigning methods. Demonstrations,
marches, public meetings, petitions have all been tried as ways to resist cuts
and austerity and it hasn’t worked. The
politicians, both national and local, simply ignore these sort of
protests. To simply
uncritically carry on in the same old way is mindless and useless.
SO
WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
We should start taking direct action to get at the politicians and
those who carry out their dirty work for them. We can:
· Withhold
Council Tax—starve
funds going to local councillors implementing cuts in social services.
· Disrupt
meetings—prevent councils passing cuts budgets and other
bodies turning public
services over to private companies.
· Occupations– take
over council and government offices. Also private companies cracking down on
poor people.
· Harassment—publicly
expose politicians and officials implementing austerity measures. Picket their homes and turn these
people into pariahs.
· Disrupt IT systems—government and business are heavily
dependent on IT. Already
people have hacked into their systems. This
should be taken further.
Engaging in these sort of actions would give people the courage and
confidence to pose real challenges to our rulers and their lackeys—and to go
further.
REVOLUTION—NOT REFORM!
We should also begin to build a revolutionary
movement in Britain
Revolutionary Praxis aims
to help people develop into committed revolutionaries, thoroughly oppose and
expose reformist politics, explain the necessity of violent revolution and
stimulate popular struggles in a revolutionary direction.
Interested? Then
contact:
REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS
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