<div class="gmail_quote">We have to turn despair and isolation into power and collective<br>action, to create a mass movement of resistance together.<br>We should be:<br>o Forming General Assemblies on the basis of neighbourhoods,<br>
communities, universities, industries and so on. The point is that<br>they cut across divisions like worker/non-worker,<br>student/administrative staff/lecturer. They need to elect instantly<br>recallable delegates to co-ordinate with other assemblies, so that<br>
vested interests can’t take hold and power can’t corrupt, and no one<br>can get lazy or sell out. This is the best way to co-ordinate between<br>university and factory occupations, town hall invasions, community-run<br>support groups and so on.<br>
o Using such assemblies to organise for a General Social Strike. The<br>TUC isn’t even able to organise a symbolic one-day general workers’<br>strike, and with weak ineffectual unions and poor job security,<br>workers can’t risk going it alone. So let’s have massive civil<br>
disorder on the part of people who can take action: walk-outs of<br>schools and colleges and massive occupations of our city centres;<br>creative use of facilities like libraries, parks, leisure centres to<br>show workers there that we are behind them; economic blockades e.g. of<br>
fuel depos where the workers can’t get away with picketing, and so on.<br>o Building alternatives to reliance on the state for everything.<br>Again, general assemblies can provide a structure for this. But we<br>can’t replace the state as though it will simply collapse through<br>
under-use. We can’t by-pass it by creating islands of autonomy: it<br>will fight back. We can’t pretend that we can manage just fine without<br>it economically either. This is not Cameron’s ‘Big Society’: it is the<br>working class fighting for its life. These alternatives must have<br>
revolutionary ideas at their heart and must organise against the state<br>as well as outside it.<br>What do you think? Talk to us and talk to your anti-cuts comrades and<br>let’s start piling the pressure on. .. If it isn’t time for radical<br>
change now, when will it be time?<br><a href="http://www.afed.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.afed.org.uk</a> </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Come along this Saturday to Passing Clouds East London, and help build the Assembly Network</div>
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