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Bricks& Class Warfare XXXX 1 winter 2017 anarchist journal free/donation Pic: Manchester Activist Network bricks & class warfare SELF-ORGANISED CENTRES AND SQUATS VS THE COLLAPSING SOCIAL COMPACT also inside this issue labour’s grey dAWN s RADICAL UNIONS RISE SMASH IPP! THE SPARROw’s nesT > ECLIPSE PHASE: ANARCHIST RPG CLIMATE MODEL SCAMMING £ ECONOMY MYTHBUSTER PLUS THE FREEDOM ANNUAL REPORT 2 Anarchism and Corbyn’s Labour a rethink about labour For most of the last 40 years it has been problems with power in all its forms — ways of working and usually leave shortly quite simple making anarchist arguments and it will be interesting if Corbyn ever after. This does not just fall from the sky against the political system. There has succeeds in his aim of devolving some — bureaucrats are motivated by career barely been a cigarette paper’s difference powers away from Westminster, likely opportunities and nothing burnishes a CV between the main parties as both rushed to be anathema to a centralising Labour like a successful reorganisation. to embrace the neo-liberal consensus that Party. Anyone new coming to this, without sees the role of the State as guaranteeing Nationalisation is seen as a panacea the experiences that have formed other good conditions for business. And always by the left. While it is a logical step to try bureaucrats, will inevitably look to what taking the side of capital over labour in and bring some sense to our fragmented their colleagues suggest so as to fit in. any dispute. Even people far removed railways and cash-cow utilities, the The “good” people get captured by the from any sort of anarchist or communist idea that it is somehow a good thing system, which would tend to support politics make the same observation. independent of how it is operated is a classical anarchist view that it is the Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader ridiculous. At no point have any of system itself which is of the Labour Party and subsequent its cheerleaders suggested the the problem. reinforcement as leader after the General idea of nationalisation under Svartfrosk Election has changed that. I am personally workers’ control. sceptical that he can deliver very much Who will be in charge of what he has promised, but I am not of a nationalised alone in finding it refreshing that a now utility or railway? The mainstream political figure has addressed government. Who has issues that I hold dear, such as housing kept public sector and workers’ rights. To use a phrase workers’ pay frozen from Chomsky, Corbyn has committed for eight years? The to “widening the floor of the cage.” The government. The experience of Syriza in Greece ought Birmingham refuse strike to make Corbyn’s cheerleaders take was about a local council, pause, though to their credit, Corbyn Labour-run, trying to force and McDonnell do seem to have thought through a significant pay about this quite a lot. Nor is there any cut. It was not alone — teaching getting away from the fact that there is an assistants in Labour-run Durham have awful lot wrong with our society. been fighting a long campaign against But none of this is an anarchist response. massive cuts in pay. This sort of thing What do we say now that the easy “they’re seemed to get a lot more traffic when it all the same” line is not possible? It’s quite was being done by the Greens in Brighton, tempting to either fall back on the usual I wonder why? refusal to engage with politicians or be The Left imagines that the State can swept up in the momentum of a mild, fairly be captured and used to overturn the principled socialist leader suddenly being policies of the last 40 years, that all it very popular — at least among certain takes is different personnel at the top. parts of the country. Neither actually help. This ignores the class nature of the We need to revisit what is distinct about bureaucracy. Once senior managers anarchism: we are opposed to Capital and in public services are in position, they the State. We should be talking about our always bring in reorganisations and new For people interested in this sort of thing, the main typefaces are Langdon, Alfa Slab One and Centabel Book. Dingbat symbols are taken from 1910 issues of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth magazine. Kindly printed by Aldgate Press Anarchism and Corbyn’s Labour 3 Enthusiasm becomes votes fodder, solving little THE MYTH OF MOMENTUM There is no doubt that Momentum helped a Labour-run council for example? Well winning. Class War led a small campaign secure Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership just ask housing campaigners in London. against the idea of ‘poor doors’ a few in the 2017 general election. It utilised and Momentum is nowhere to be seen. They years back and gained a great deal of combined online tools with traditional will do nothing to damage the party. This publicity on the issue. Politics is not about campaigning to ensure people knocking also exposes another myth of Momentum. size, it’s about what you do and the ways on doors in marginal constituencies. That, This is the myth that they are doing in which you do it. Small groups matter with the aid of a manifesto which actually something extraordinary in grassroots and they need help. Structure matters. As contained policies, enabled Labour to campaigns. They are not. If anything anarchists we should reject Momentum avoid an electoral disaster. they are just a well organised group of simply on the basis of how it organises, Long gone are the newspaper reports professional activists. Think of the Socialist let alone its dodgy politics. about this group of infiltrators threatening Workers Party actually doing stuff other On the election we need to bear in to deselect any MP who disagrees with than just selling papers. That’s Momentum. mind that in every election across the Corbyn. Since the group became a much They decide what to campaign on (it has democratic world there are usually around more top down organisation over the to be in Labour’s interests), then they turn 30% of the population that don’t vote. course of the last year, so the critical up and campaign (regardless of what is These non-voters tend to be the poorest newspaper articles have stopped. The already happening on the ground). people in society. Their apathy is really reorganisation of Momentum was seen as Professional activists can be a menace. anything but. They are just getting on with solving the issue of the Trotskyists. What’s Good activists resist taking leadership life but perhaps more importantly there left is a social democratic leadership and positions in local campaigns they are not isn’t normally much on offer for them to scores of trade unionists ready to act as affected by themselves. They keep their make a rational choice between competing voting fodder for internal Labour battles. distance so that they can offer advice to parties. In 2017 the Labour manifesto was Anarchists have reacted in various ways those that are directly involved. This is not nowhere near as radical as the press made to the rise of Corbyn and Momentum. the way Momentum activists behave. A out. It didn’t send Alistair Campbell and Many had continued to refuse to engage Plan C article written after the Momentum Tony Blair crying into the polling booths to with electoral politics. Some have decided conference, The World Transformed reluctantly vote Labour. They trotted along to hold their nose and vote, in the hope (wonderfully shortened, and without quite happily to support it. The talk wasn’t of getting rid of the Tories, and some irony, to TWT) sets out how some people of breakaway parties anymore. This was others have got involved with actively see Momentum as a game changer. The simply social democratic policies, albeit supporting Momentum and Labour. This article proclaims that “standing ‘outside’ on the left of social democracy. There was is understandable but utterly wrong. It’s of the movements influenced by Corbyn’s more than enough in there for the liberals understandable because much of the ascension to the top of the LP really in the Labour Party to support it. campaigning they are involved with is doesn’t cut the mustard.” Unfortunately The myths of Momentum could end about changing the material circumstances it doesn’t elaborate on what cutting the up with people being swallowed into of the majority for the better. As anarchists mustard actually means in this context but a structure which is only interested we stand for socialism and it’s perfectly it does explain that it is “warm under the ultimately at getting Labour into power. reasonable to want to help campaigns that wings of a dragon.” The author goes on The risk is that activists will be diverted appear to be socialist. to claim that “there is no other game that into battles that only ultimately help that The myth of Momentum is that on a day could build a mass movement at present.” party. They could, in the process, result to day basis it is a socialist campaigning That is absolutely the case. We need to in other grassroots campaigns being group, rather than simply a group aiming consider what the point of such a mass trampled on, ignored, subverted and to get Labour into power. The amount movement would be though. People controlled by professional activists. There of people flocking to it in hope of those seem obsessed with the size of political is no mass movement worth having unless material differences is drawing others in.
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