FIGHT THE BOSSES, NOT THEIR WARS!
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King George Bush the Second of America isn't exactly the sharpest tool in
the bag.
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 the United
States of America - big business.
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
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 backing another war against
Iraq. Iraq has the second biggest oil reserves on the planet.
WORLD DOMINATION
Of course oil is not the only reason the US wants to attack Iraq. But don't
believe their lies about concern for the ordinary Iraqi people.
What the US rulers are concerned with is to show that they are the toughest
gang on the planet. They want to send out the message to all potential
rivals - mess with us and we'll wipe you out.
The US ruling class is out to assert its domination over the middle east in
particular and the world in general.
NOT OUR DICTATOR
It's true that Saddam Hussein is a very nasty dictator. But the US ruling
class have no problem with that. They support loads of nasty regimes.
Israel, where the state regularly shoots down children. Colombia, where
government-backed death squads murder with impunity. These are only two examples.
Why it's not so long ago that the US government backed Saddam himself, against
Iran.
No, the problem is that Sadam is no longer THEIR dictator. He gets in
their way. So the US ruling clas demand that many thousands of innocent
people must die in the cause of even greater profits and ever more power -
for them. The figurehead Bush carries out their orders, and Tony Blair, the
puppet of a puppet, drags his reluctant country along.
PUPPET ON A STRING
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 masses of working
class people defeated Maggie when she introduced the poll tax, even
though she was in a much stronger position than he is now.
Already we have had the biggest anti-war protests this country has ever seen.
As war starts, that opposition will intensify.
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR
Also, while Tony has had his eye on warmongering in foreign parts, the class
struggle is very much back on the agenda at home,eg with the firefighters
and train guards disputes.
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.
MAKE THE UK UNGOVERNABLE!
As bombs start to rain down on innocent civilians, the anti-war movement will
have to turn more and more to direct action. Legal demonstrations can
be useful, but they do not really challenge the State. We certainly
don't need to waste time listening to the speeches of self-serving politicians.
We do need to seriously disrupt the workings of the profit machine.
Strike! Take to the streets! Stop the city!
We do need to sabotage the war effort.
Invade military bases! Blockade military convoys!
WE GOT THE POWER
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.
All of us acting together have the power to stop this war - let's use it.
THE REAL BIG PICTURE
For anti authoritarian revolutionaries and 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!
Thanks to the SCOTTISH ANARCHIST leaflet on which this text was based.
This new version is
the sole responsibility of the author, John Ball.