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A GOOD EDUCATION – IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY.

            Herein the UK we pride ourselves on being a civilised country yet ourelected millionaire representatives are creating an education systemthat is tiered according to you place in the class system, a classsystem that they rigorously adhere to, it is built into the way theythink. Since this bunch of millionaire parasites came to power, thiscountry by 2014/15 will have seen, in real terms, a 13% cut in publicspending on education. What this does is create a very high level ofeducation for those super rich friends of the millionaire cabal incharge, a second, and lower level of expensive education for thelower caste, (middle class) and the lowest level of poorly fundedsticking plaster education for the peasants, the “untouchables”,in this class ridden society that we tolerate.
       Dr Bousted, who heads the most moderate of the three teachers' unions stated: "This Coalition Government's attack on poor children is a blight upon our conception of ourselves as a civilised society. They remind me of a former Prime Minister who said there was no such thing as society." She also stated that among cuts that had affected the poor were:
A 22 per cent cut ingrants to Sure Start centres designed to give the under-fives a goodstart in life. This has led to the closure of 124 centres;
The removal of the ring-fence on funding forschool meals at a time when the number of children entitled to freefood at school has risen by 110,000;
Cuts in local authority funding which have led toone in five councils axing the supply of library books to primary andsecondary schools;
The withdrawal of education maintenance allowancesof up to £30 a week which encouraged poorer students to stay on inpost-16 education;
A real-terms cut of 13 per cent in public spendingon education by 2014-15.    
        What we should never lose sight of is fact, thatthis “deficit reduction” is all to save the bankers and bondholders from losing any of their ill gotten gains. So on who side doesthat put our elected millionaires? Just whose benefit are theyworking for, those that they throw into the dustbin of societythrough unemployment, decimated health care, underfunded education,or their millionaire friends the bankers and bond holders who get allthat public money?


        Since they believe in, and work at perpetuating a class system, then we have no alternative but to recognise that fact and to engage in earnest in class war.


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THE CURSE OF CAPITALISM.


     In Europe all the bankers and their yes men the politicians, are running around trying to find ways to save their billions. They keep coming up with grand plan after grand plan, only to find that it isn't working. Though they can hold their meetings in luxurious hotels and wine and dine their way through a multitude of exotic menus, the people at the receiving end of the grand plans are sinking fast.



    Under the present system of bankers corporate fascism, what has Europe got to offer the people? Country after country is seeing unemployment soar, some countries are at the moment away ahead of the others. At the forefront is Greece with youth unemployment almost at the 50% level, while total unemployment is at 18.3% and rising. Spain is in a similar position with total unemployment running at 22.8% and youth unemployment also approaching the 50% mark. Portugal and Ireland have approximately 30% youth unemployment, here in the UK it running at about 20%. All other countries in Europe have varying degrees of this malaise.



    This is the stark reality of conditions for the next generation of young people growing up in Europe, poverty and unemployment. These figures are an indictment against a system that can pour unbelievable wealth into the coffers of the few, while the vast majority struggle to keep their heads above water. A system that, to protect the unearned wealth of the few, is quite prepared to sacrifice country after country to a life of deprivation.



      Unemployment never comes alone, it has constant companions, the obvious is poverty, less noted but just as cruel is mental health problems, then there is the usual rise in suicides, violence, drug addiction and malnutrition. All this brings about the destruction of our social society, but only at our level. The millionaire class responsible for all this misery and destruction, go unscathed and will continue to take their yacht to the Med. fly to Dubai, and soak up the sun at St Moritz.

CRISIS!!  What crisis?

      As across the continent unemployment and poverty rises to scales not seen since the 30s and the 1% parasite class continue living in luxury on the backs of the ordinary people, it is surely obvious that the system doesn't work for the majority of the people. If the people want an end to this corrupt, unjust and exploitative system, they have to take control away from the financial parasites, remove the corrupt political class, (the parasites' managers) and organise society from the grassroots, creating a society that sees to the needs of all our people. A society based on mutual aid and sustainability, one that is free from the profit motive. Capitalism doesn't work.


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Molly’sBlog 2011-11-30 18:38:00

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:DEMOCRACY VERSUS THE BANKERS:The following item on the international finamcial crisis is from the Anarkismo website. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Europe & the BankersThe limits of democracy in Project EuropeWh…

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THE MAILING REVOLUTION!!


        Perhaps you agree with the Occupy Movement but because of circumstances you can't take part in the actual occupation. Well there are ways of doing your bit to let the wanker bankers know that you are aware of their corruption and greed and you support the occupy movement. You can also cost them money and time. Just follow the instructions in this video and you are part of the movement, but like the man says, try to get out there on the streets, that's where our power can be seen.


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COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU!!!






         Greece isshut down, the people have called a 48 hour general strike againstthe extremely severe “austerity” cuts being imposed by thefinancial puppets of the IMF, (International Mankind Fuckers), theGreek government. 70,000 on the streets of Athens, over 15,000 on thestreets of Thesilonika, riot police fire stun grenades and tear gasinto the protesters, running battles across the city centre. This isdemocracy Western style, the people don't want the policies thegovernment is forcing on them, so they try to beat the shit out ofthe people to intimidate them in the hope that they will meeklyaccept poverty and deprivation.



       What the Greek people have had inflicted on them over the last 18months or so, is unacceptable in any so called civilised country.They have faced massive pay cuts, not just one but in some cases twopay cuts, cuts to their pensions, if it is over 1,00Euros a month, itis cut by 20%, also lump some retirement payments cut, increasedtaxes, tax threshold lowered from 8,000 Euros to 5,000, VAT increasedto 23%, plus new taxes. One such new tax is the property tax, wherebyyou have an extra tax if you have a house, it is worked out at somuch per square metre. Prices are rising and unemployment is soaring,the health budget has been cut by 40%, health problems are mushrooming plus alcohol problems, drug problems and suicides are on the increase. Perhaps it wasn't the best health service in the world, but whatever itwas has now been decimated. Students complain of not having books,30,000 public sector workers have been put on “reduced” pay, 60% pay,with the possibility of being made redundant after a year. Newreduced pay and conditions for all civil servants, and an end to paybargaining, Still the IMF (International Mankind Fuckers) claim it isnot enough, their puppets in Athens must do more. Apart from thesavage dismantling of the social fabric of the country, they havebeen ordered the sell-off of 59 billion Euros of public assets. TheIMF puppet government that is hell bent on pursuing these policies,will in no way suffer themselves, no, the “necessary” hardshipsthey claim that must be imposed are for the people, not for theimplementers. Western capitalist democracy at work.



       What we are witnessing is the Greek people being sacrificed on thealter of corporate greed, a blood curling and savage process toappease the world's billionaire bankers. The will not suffer anylosses, if they can take the money from the general public, and ifGreece is not enough then other countries will have to be sacrificedon that same alter. Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, are all beingprepared for the sacrifice. With the rest of Europe being held in thesame trap in case that last list is not enough. France isn't far downthe list, and so it will go on until they own everything and theircoffers are secure. All this misery and deprivation to save thewanker bankers from losing their unearned billions that they gambledand lost.



        Thefight that the Greek people are involved in is our fight, we are notimmune from the greedy tentacles of the corporate greed machine.Whatever it can do and get away with, to protect its wealth andpower, it will do. It has no nationality, it knows no borders, theonly pain it can feel is the loss of money. People are of noconsequence, wealth and power are all that matters. We have to thinkthe same way, solidarity across nationality, solidarity across allborders.


JUST A WEE THOUGHT!!

           
   
           Just a wee thought. TheAmerican taxpayer bailed out the American financial sector to thetune of $700 billion, that's a lot of money. What can you do with$700 billion. Well for starters, you could fund the two illegal warsin Afghanistan and Iraq, well almost, the total cost so far, to theAmerican tax payers for these to brutal and inhumane wars is astaggering $750 billion, so you would need some more taxpayers pettycash. Or you could go a long way to sorting out the 850 million humanbeings who are starving in this world. Perhaps we could fix the 2.6billion people who lack sewage services. Then of course there arethose 800 million illiterate in the world, what would $700 billion dofor that problem? Then in a loving way, we could sort out the problemof the 640 million children who lack adequate housing. The list couldgo on and on, there is so much we can do in this world to alleviatedeprivation and suffering. If we add up the bail-outs across thedeveloped world and threw it at the problems facing the deprived,what a wonderful change there would be, but no, we prefer to throw itat the bankers and the bond market, to try to unsure that they don'tlose any of their billions that they have salted away. That'sdemocracy for you!!
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FREEDOM PRESS AND WILDCAT.

   
  The longest running anarchist newspaper in Britain is Freedom, established in 1886. As well as fighting the sysyem for the last 125 years, publishing lots of interesting and informative articles, keeping you in touch with what anarchists are up to, it also has "Wildcat". "Wildcat" has some wonderful insights and words of wisdom, this little session is from 16 July Freedom issue Vol. 72 No. 14.






Why not get your copy of Freedom and enjoy Wildcat and keep in touch with what is going on.

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annarky’s blog. 2011-06-29 15:21:00

     A CLASSY MAYFAIR FIRESALE!!!


     For those poor deluded souls who still think that "their" government is driving the fiscal policy in their respective countries, the extract below helps to clear the smoke from the bankers and bond markets smoke and mirrors illusion. Austerity cuts, as I keep spouting, have nothing to do with deficit reduction, it is all to do with flogging off everything in sight to the corporate world at "firesale" prices. Everything must go, ports, airports, land, anything that the corporate world can make money from will be handed to them on a plate, social services will be starved of funds letting the corporate world step in and sell the service to you at a price and profit to them, all of this at the dicate of the IMF and ECB. "Your" government is selling "your" country and the money raised will of course, not go to those who actually own these assets, the people, no, it will all go to the bankers and bond markets to cover their losses, and "your" government will comply, even if it decimates the living standards of the people, even if the people take to the streets in mass protests making it quite clear that they do not want this policy to continue. The state's minders will also be on the streets dealing out brutal repression with baton and tear gas, and if that doesn't work their is always the army. So much for democracy. 

     The short extract below was taken from from an article that appeared in The Guardian June 29 and was written by Aditya Chakrabortty and  titled, Greece crisis. As Athens erupts Mayfair hosts a classy firesale,.  The full article is well worth reading. The graphics are not The Guardian's.

     'At first, yesterday's meeting looked like a thousand other upmarket business events; suits gathered at Claridge's hotel in London's Mayfair for a day's discussion of how to reform Greece and its economy. But listening to the presentations from Greek ministers and officials about the airports, the ports, the land they were auctioning off to the highest bidder, the real purpose of the day came into sharp focus. Here in an art deco room with five chandeliers and too many mirrored surfaces to count, was the beginning of a classy firesale.

       The men from Athens were not calling it that, of course. “A professionally run privatisation plan” is how George Christodoulakis, the man in charge of Greece's asset sales preferred to describe it. But even he conceded that the pace and scale of the government's scheme to flog €50bn (£44.8bn) of assets within the next five years had been forced on it. “One can say; is this the best time to sell assets?” '
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Molly’sBlog 2011-02-20 12:56:00


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Molly’sBlog 2010-03-20 21:41:00


AMERICAN POLITICS:
BANKER GUILTY AS CHARGED:


The following item is from the AFL-CIO Blog. It describes a recent action in the city of Madison Wisconsin where a mock trial of JP Morgan Chase executive Jamie Dimon. The action was part of an extended campaign to put pressure on American financial institutions to create jobs.
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JPMorgan Chase Greed Brings ‘Guilty’ Verdict

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was found guilty yesterday of conspiracy to wreck the economy, destroy jobs and the immoral use of taxpayer bank bailout money for millions in Wall Street bonuses.
The courtroom was on a Madison Wis., street in front a JPMorgan Chase bank branch and the jury included dozens of union and community activists. The street theater was part of the AFL-CIO union movement’s two weeks of action across the country to Make Wall Street pay to create jobs and fix they economy they ravaged.
Jim Cavanaugh, president of the South Central Federation of Labor, which organized the curbside drama, says:
We bailed out Wall Street now its time for Wall Street to bail out Main Street.

More than 200 “Good Jobs Now, Make Wall Street Pay” actions are planned through March 25. The rallies and marches will demand that the Big Six Wall Street banks–Bank of America, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wachovia-Wells Fargo–take the following actions:
**Pay their fair share to restore the jobs their actions destroyed.
**Stop their multi-million dollar lobbying blitz to kill financial reform.
**Start lending to communities, small businesses and others starved for credit.
Also yesterday, union members distributed leaflets in front of JPMorgan Chase branch in Baton Rouge, La., and rallied at a Bank of America office in Charleston, S.C. Today union activists in Butte, Mont., will march in the town’s St. Patrick’s Day parade carrying “Make Wall Street Pay” signs and banners. This afternoon, the West Virginia AFL-CIO, along with community allies, staged a rally in front a Wells Fargo/Wachovia Bank in Charleston.
Find out about events in your area here. If you take part in an event, be sure to send us your photo or video here.

You also can tell Wall Street executives to pony up and create good jobs by sending a letter urging them to do the right thing. Just click here.
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The Letter
I have to admit that I have my doubts about this one. Petitioning bankers to go against their self interest is something like petitioning the Devil to cease being the High Lord of Hell. Still, for what it is worth you can go to this link to send the following letter to assorted lords of finance.
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Dear [ Wall Street Banker ],
I am part of the fight to create the 11 million good jobs America needs--and I call on you and all the big Wall Street banks to:
1. Pay your fair share to restore the jobs you destroyed.
2. Stop fighting financial reform.
3. Start lending to communities, to small business and to others starved for credit so they can create jobs.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]