The Party Game Is Over. Stand And Fight

[Karmadillo]

http://www.zcommunications.org/the-party-game-is-over-stand-and-fight-by-john-pilger

The Party Game Is Over. Stand And Fight
By John Pilger

Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number.
Shake your chains to earth like dew.
Which in sleep has fallen on you.
Ye are many – they are few.

These days, the stirring lines of Percy Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy may seem unattainable. I don’t think so. Shelley was both a Romantic and political truth-teller. His words resonate now because only one political course is left to those who are disenfranchised and whose ruin is announced on a government spread sheet.

Born of the “never again” spirit of 1945, social democracy in Britain has surrendered to an extreme political cult of money worship. This reached its apogee when £1 trillion of public money was handed unconditionally to corrupt banks by a Labour government whose leader, Gordon Brown, had previously described “financiers” as the nation’s “great example” and his personal “inspiration”.

This is not to say Parliamentary politics is meaningless. They have one meaning now: the replacement of democracy by a business plan for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope, every child born. The old myths of British rectitude, imperial in origin, provided false comfort while the Blair gang, assisted by venal MPs, finished Thatcher’s work and built the foundation of the present “coalition”. This is led by a former PR man for an asset stripper and by a bagman who will inherit his knighthood and the tax-avoided fortune of his father, the 17th Baronet of Ballentaylor. David Cameron and George Osborne are essentially fossilised spivs who, in colonial times, would have been sent by their daddies to claim foreign terrain and plunder.

Today, they are claiming 21st century Britain and imposing their vicious, antique ideology, albeit served as economic snake oil. Their designs have nothing to do with a “deficit crisis”. A deficit of 10 per cent is not remotely a crisis. When Britain was officially bankrupt at the end of the second world war, the government built its greatest public institutions, such as the National Health Service and the great arts edifices of London’s South Bank.

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The BA workers, the fire-fighters, the council workers, the post office workers, the NHS workers, the London Underground staff, the teachers, the lecturers, the students can more than match the French if they are resolute and imaginative, forging, with the wider social justice movement, potentially the greatest popular resistance ever. Look at the web; and listen to the public’s support at fire stations. There is no other way now. Direct action. Civil disobedience. Unerring. Read Shelley and do it.

[Catherina]

1. "There is no other way now. Direct action. Civil disobedience. Unerring. Read Shelley and do it." +1

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. What is fascinating is that this is exactly where

we are as well...

I expect the british to rise faster though than we will.

But I am smelling the beginning of a world wide movement...

[TBF]

5. That is where my hope lies ... nt

[rhett o rick]

3. At some point we will have nothing more to lose. Fuckem, Iam ready. nm

[amborin]

4. only a small window of opportunity left.... K&R

[sabrina 1]

6. One of my favorite writers. He has been there documenting these

awful times from the beginning, and accurately.

I do think he's right, there are the rumblings of a world wide movement against this Global Takeover and in European countries, there is so much anger at the EU. I hope all those rightwing governments are tossed out in their next elections and the EU disbanded. It never was a good idea, but now that countries have witnessed their destruction of those democracies, their cold, corporate refusal to listen the people, I think they may have done themselves in.

What would solve the problems would be to find the money they've stolen and return it to the various countries it was stolen from. But as long as they are in charge, that's not likely to happen.

Iceland, the first country to collapse as a result of Global, unchecked, greedy Capitalism, is leading the way again in how to deal with their corrupt leaders. I hope others will follow their lead. Throw out the Globalists, elect a new Democratic government, then nationalize the banks, forgive all debt the people were forced into, and start the investigations and prosecutions.