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UKIP Means Scapegoating and Division For a Solidarity workers’ government For social ownership of the banks and industry No 320 9 April 2014 30p/80p www.workersliberty.org UKIP means scapegoating and division Scaremongering: UKIP election poster See page 5 For a workers’ united Europe! 2 NEWS What is the Alliance Tories plan for water cannon for Workers’ Liberty? By Michael Johnson Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to would not have arrived in nology Laboratory found another, the capitalist class, which owns the means of production. time. “good evidence … to indi - Society is shaped by the capitalists’ relentless drive to increase their Home Secretary Theresa wealth. Capitalism causes poverty, unemployment, the May is considering letting Chief Constable David cate that serious injuries blighting of lives by overwork, imperialism, the police forces in England Shaw, author of the Acpo have been sustained by peo - destruction of the environment and much else. and Wales use water can - report, told the Guardian ple subjected to the force of Against the accumulated wealth and power of the nons against protestors. that the 2011 riots were a water cannon”. capitalists, the working class has one weapon: catalyst for new work on A 69-year-old man was solidarity. In January, Boris Johnson public order policing, blinded in one eye and lost The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty aims to build wrote to May in his capacity though he added: “... it’s most of the sight in his solidarity through struggle so that the working class can overthrow as the Mayor of London not a direct response to other eye when hit in the capitalism. We want socialist revolution: collective ownership of saying that he was “broadly 2011, or anything we’ve got face in Stuttgart in 2010. industry and services, workers’ control and a democracy much fuller convinced of the value of now. These things can last Most of the dangers come than the present system, with elected representatives recallable at any having water cannon avail - 30 years. And things hap - from injuries from falls. time and an end to bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges. able” in the capital. pen over three decades.” Loss of hearing and damage We fight for the labour movement to break with “social partnership” The Association of Chief Water cannon victim Met police commissioner, to long-term balance have and assert working-class interests militantly against the bosses. Police Officers (Acpo) Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, been reported after victims Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, thinks “ongoing and poten - said he wanted water can - suffered direct hits to the supporting workers’ struggles, producing workplace bulletins, helping tial future austerity meas - veloped during the riots nons to prevent “more bru - ears. organise rank-and-file groups. Much of the impact will ures” is an argument for across Britain in the early tal alternatives”. Water We are also active among students and in many campaigns and be on the atmosphere of 1980s, but were never used. cannons are themselves alliances. arming police with water protests. Belgian police cannons. During the riots of the brutal. inspector Koen Vande - summer of 2011, Cameron In the UK they are desig - We stand for: Though they have been walle, told the Guardian announced contingency nated “less lethal” in recog - Independent working-class representation in politics. used with impunity in that: “There’s a psycho - ● plans to make water can - nition of the fact that they A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the labour Northern Ireland since logical effect — the sense ● nons available within 24 can kill. A 2013 report by movement. 1969, water cannons have that now it’s getting more hours but they were not the British government’s A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, to strike, to not been seen elsewhere. serious.” ● judged to be necessary and Defence Science and Tech - picket effectively, and to take solidarity action. Two prototypes were de - ● Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, education and jobs for all. Cops’ “targets”: make more ● A workers’ movement that fights all forms of oppression. Full equality for women and social provision to free women from the burden of housework. Free abortion on request. Full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Black and white workers’ unity stop-and-searches, record fewer crimes against racism. ● Open borders. ● Global solidarity against global capital — workers everywhere have By Gerry Bates more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist ‘suggestion’ that should The report speaks of when it comes to meeting rulers. A report by the Metropoli - you be called to an incident, “culture of fear” in the po - performance targets. These ● Democracy at every level of society, from the smallest workplace or tan Police Federation has perhaps stop and search lice, with one unnamed offi - behaviours include figure community to global social organisation. exposed the use of tar - them first or whilst investi - cer complaining that: fiddling and policy ● Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal rights for all get-setting. gating the incident (obvi - “Every month we are breaches.” nations, against imperialists and predators big and small. ously that is a serious named and shamed with a Data manipulation, said ● Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate. One officer reported: “We breach of procedure and league table by our supervi - to be “rife”, is a particular ● If you agree with us, please take some copies of Solidarity to sell — are set individual targets of law) in order to get a search sors...” concern in cases involving and join us! four arrests per month and figure.” It also warns that “un - rape and sexual assault. 10 stop and searches. There As black people are 6.3 healthy and arguably un - In November 2013, Met should be at least one posi - times more likely to be ethical behaviour has whistleblower PC James stopped and searched, the become the norm in several Contact us: tive stop and search per Patrick told the House of police are racially harassing boroughs... as the end is ● 020 7394 8923 ● [email protected] month (i.e. leading to ar - Commons public adminis - people to meet their targets. used to justify the means The editor (Cathy Nugent), 20e Tower Workshops, Riley rest), and there is also the tration committee that Met Road, London, SE1 3DG. figures on rape artificially ● Printed by Trinity Mirror kept down to boost appar - 10,000 in Montreal against cuts ent performance. One method of massag - On 3 April, students in Get Solidarity every week! Montreal held a 10,000- ing the figures is the prac - strong “national protest tice of recording allegations as “crime-related incidents” ● Trial sub, 6 issues £5 o against austerity rather than crimes, leading ● 22 issues (six months). £18 waged o measures and for a more egalitarian budget.” to cases not being investi - £9 unwaged o Students are gated properly. In 2009, the ● 44 issues (year). £35 waged o concerned about the Guardian revealed that as many as six boroughs in the £17 unwaged o ruling Parti Quebecois’s Met had used this tech - European rate: 28 euros (22 issues) cuts to public services, ● o education and health nique. or 50 euros (44 issues) o and price rises for hydro Patrick also told MPs Tick as appropriate above and send your money to: electricity. that: “A preference had de - 20e Tower Workshops, Riley Road, London, SE1 3DG The demonstration veloped to try to justify ‘no was called by the crime’ on the basis of men - Cheques (£) to “AWL”. Association pour une tal health or similar issues Or make £ and euro payments at workersliberty.org/sub. solidarité syndicale of vulnerability or by say - étudiante (ASSÉ), the ing that the victim has re - Name . militant student fused to disclose to them.” organisation which When asked by Com - Address . organised widespread student strikes in Quebec in 2012. mittee chair Bernard Six minutes before it was due to begin, Montreal police declared the march illegal under the Jenkin if “this would finish . city’s controversial municipal bylaw P6 which bans masks at demonstrations and requires that up with trying to persuade an itinerary be submitted before any demonstration in Montreal. a victim that they weren’t I enclose £ . At least two demonstrators were arrested “preventively.” Police had arrested six protesters raped, for example?”, by the end of the demonstration. Patrick replied: “Effec - tively, yes.” 3 NEWS Ugandan anti-gay law passes Shahrokh Zamani By Paul Penny eni, thank you for saving be ‘out’ and is still living in On 31 March, Ugandan the future of Uganda,” “Ho - Uganda, I am in a minority hunger president Yoweri Musev - mosexuality + AIDS = of fewer than 20 people.” eni was guest of honor at 100%,” and “Obama, we On 4 April, the Walter an inter-religious, “na - want trade not homosexual - Reed Project, a non-profit strike: tional thanksgiving rally”, ity.” partnership between Mak - held at the Kololo Inde - Speaker after speaker, in - erere University (Kampala) pendence Grounds in cluding David Bahati, the and the US Military HIV sign the Kampala, to “celebrate” MP who proposed the origi - Research Program, was the passing of the Anti- nal bill, extolled Museveni raided and closed down by Homosexuality Act. for his “courage” and Ugandan police. “strong leadership” in sign - The project had provided petition! Other guests included Re - ing the bill into law in the Inter-religious “celebration” of passing of the law vital services for many peo - becca Kadaga, the speaker face of intense international ple living with HIV. Iranian trade unionist of the Ugandan Parliament; opposition.
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