En Passant

My hope is to bring in my own small way reason in revolt to the world of tax and end the age of cant. That can only really happen if 2012 becomes the year of revolution, of working classes across the globe – from Egypt to Italy, from Wisconsin to Wukan -fighting back against the bosses and their state and setting up their own profoundly democratic society to satisfy human need.

Loot a shop, go to jail. Loot a nation, get a bonus? This is the name of a new facebook group. Says it all.

A real solution to the despair that creates riots will need a different sort of society, where the needs of the vast majority, rather than a tiny elite, come first.

Riots can shake the system, but we need more—a revolutionary movement capable of tapping a wider power of resistance to counter the ruling class.

We need to use all our strength to unite the fights against racism,the police, the rich, the Tories and capitalism.

That’s the way to get rid of this rotten government, to confront racism and to begin the battle for a better world.