Class War Youth Death Brigade

America is the land of the free! Free means you don’t pay!

 If you haven’t guessed it already, this is going to be a post about Abbie Hoffman. Because I’m a fuckin’ hippy. Seriously though, the actual reason I’m doing this is because I think lots of people are missing the point. I know lots of people do just see Abbie as a stupid hippy who believed in Bananadine with no political credentials whatsoever. This is a good view to take, YOU DON’T NEED POLITICAL CREDENTIALS TO START THE REVOLUTION. Do you honestly think that the people who sit in their rooms reading Kropotkin before going and having arguments about it on LibCom are the true revolutionists? Anyone who tries to say that reading Das Kapital is a more inspiring experience than reading Revolution For The Hell Of It is lying to themselves. I know you want your lefty credentials, but, being honest, which one of those books really made you want to go out and do something? People think that hippies were all about peaceful protest, but nobody who’s read the immortal phrase “plastics are absolutely the grooviest explosives available’ would say that. It’s easy to take the piss out of Flower Power and stuff, because it became a fad, but I swear, when I read it in Revolution For The Hell Of It, it didn’t make me cringe/vomit, because it’s literally about having FUN. FUN is what I think everyone seems to have forgotten about.  THE PROBLEM IS NOT WHAT TO DO IN THE REVOLUTION BUT WHAT TO DO IN BETWEEN THE REVOLUTION.

By FREE.

I spent the first few hours of Boris’s mayoral term having my human rights abused, althouh I am not sure whether it was officially announced at this point. Me and friend got to City Hall early, sat down, and immediately got approached by a FIT team, questioning us and taking pictures. Gradually our numbers increased, until there was roughly 100 of us. We were literally just standing there waving our flags and banners and chanting, when for no reason whatsoever, the cops start pushing as around, because apparently we were ‘obstructing the highway’, although we were only taking up a tiny amount of room at the edge of the walkway. They pushed about 40 of us into a pen, and put fences around us, there were probably about 70 cops around the edge of the fences. 

We asked why we were being kept there, and apparently, we were staying there until they felt that a ‘breach of the peace’ was no longer likely to occur. I tried to quiz a couple of them on how this wasn’t a human rights abuse, as we weren’t allowed to go to the toilet, and they wouldn’t give us any water. I was perfectly reasonable but they didn’t want to know. Whenever anyone tried to escape they were violently pushed back in, although there were a few good scuffles, one of which resulted in one of them getting their hat stolen. TWO AND A HALF HOURS LATER they started letting people out in ones and twos, but about 15 of us stayed, because we wanted to leave as a group. THREE HOURS LATER we were allowed to go free, although we had to give them our name and address when we left, otherwise we would have got arrested.

SO FAR I AM VERY IMPRESSED WITH BORIS AND HIS HUMAN RIGHTS POLICIES. It should also be noted that the BNP just walked past with no trouble.

Before I start, I would like to mention that this is BLATANTLY NOT OFF TOPIC.

As many of you may, or may not know, Morrissey is currently in a legal battle the NME, because they were portraying him as racist apparently. Nothing unusual there, as Morrissey has more court cases than hairs nowadays.

Anyway, the NME were going to be funding the Love Music Hate Racism Carnival, this Sunday in Victoria Park. But, they had to drop out. Because nobody buys their magazine. Who steps in to save it but their BEST FRIEND, Morrissey! Apparently he’s donated £75, 000 to the campaign,  and without it the carnival wouldn’t be able to happen. After the NME saying that Morrissey was only backing the campaign for good publicity after all the racism controversy, this is very fucking good news. Love Music Hate Racism are cowards and won’t put a thing up about in on the website, but oh well.

GOOD TIMES.  

Meeting Point Accommodations (called Easy London in Italy) is a youth hostel company, run by an Italian fascist called Roberto Fiore, who is built up a massive property empire in London while he was in exile from Italy in 1980 until 1999 following a number of fascist bombings in Italy in the late 70s, including the 1980 Bologna Train Station bomb. It was planted by a group called the NAR, who Robert Fiore was a member of. There are hostels in Tufnell Park and Swiss Cottage, with another nine dotted around the capital.

The money which is made goes towards an Italian fascist party called Forza Nuova, who are known for their use of symbols like the swastika and giving the fascist salute. They have been involved in hundreds of racist attacks in Rome as well as attempted murders, arsons and bombings. Nick Griffin’s parents are accountants for the business. Many of the people staying there are, mostly young French, Spanish and Italian students, aren’t aware of where their money is going.

On Saturday eight of us gathered outside Tufnell Park Station, planning to leaflet around the Kentish Hostel, which is located at 45-49 Carleton Road. We leafleted about 300 different houses and flats in the area, and spoke to a few locals, who seemed aware of the hostels but not of their link with fascism. Then we decided to pay a visit to the hostels. There was no security whatsoever, we just walked in. We stuck posters in the hallways, and put them under the doors. We didn’t see a person the whole time we were there, although I was half expecting a Nazi to jump out and stab us, the main danger seemed to be the buildings falling down. Neo-nazis aren’t very houseproud. Basically, a fairly successful day.

Short post my lovlies.

Just reading this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7306002.stm

The message says the attacks of Europeans on women and children “paled [in comparison] when you went overboard in your unbelief and… went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings.

Okthx. So basically publishing pictures in a newspaper is worse than burning women and children (and men, of course) alive? Not that I need to insult the Rt. Hon. bin Laden particularly but srsly whut?

HOLY-ROLL-ME-OVER-IN-THE-CLOVER-DEAD-FISH-TOBACCO-FACTORY-
SOUTH-BRISTOL-IS-RUBBISH-SHOCKER.

We all know, if you’re from Bristol or know anything about England’s largest village, that Urban Splash are dreadful.

“Urban Splash is making waves in the UK’s property development pool. The company builds new buildings and rejuvenates old ones by modifying them into hip, multi-functional office and residential complexes.“

Oooh I say. Marvellous. Going into the more working class areas and building expensive housing that obviously has a knock on effect for the area. Who cares if you lose your home? We’re beautifying the area so Tabitha and Sebastian can move in. Whatever.

Their development at a tobacco factory in South Bristol.

They create a scale model.

They place it in an abandoned fire station.

The put little goldfishies in the water.

How lovely.

BUT THEN THEY LEAVE THEM TO DIE.

The Death Brigade saw this senseless slaughter for themselves. A single goldfishy, bloated and floating on the top of the water. It was frightfully sad. The Death Brigade attempted to reenter the building and aquire a photograph as we were too shocked the first time to remember. No such luck.

Fight gentrification. Fight for the fishy.

How our friend may, or may not have, looked in the prime of his/her life.

Class War’s very own Dick and Nicole Diver (I can romanticise) also known as Sam and Ella would like to announce to our readership that we are getting married. We might be anarchists and feminists. I may also have been an extremely vocal opponent of marriage. However, we are utterly dedicated to each other and can think of no better way of making our love obvious to everyone. All those who know us understand and are happy so no judging fools.

Yeah! If we know you you’re probably invited. xx

Logging on to the shameful love of my life, the BBC website, this morning I was greeted with quite possibly the most tantalising, most irresistable HYS title ever. . . Are white working class people ignored in Britain?

I thought this has to be a joke by the BBC, they knew I’d been depressed lately and were desperate to cheer me up with a few laughs. A few laughs they gave me! The sheer level of rubbish people say on there, and that they actually believe it. This is something I think about often: it seems the majority of people in this country, regardless of class, believe complete rubbish. They believe false statistics, opinion stated as fact and pure lies. It’s disturbing and upsetting.

If you’re going to discuss class, which naturally not many do well- the media especially, then I believe it is imperative to first and foremost recognise that class is class and any subgenres of class such as race should be considered in secondary analysis.  I didn’t expect the BBC to do this and they didn’t. Class is never defined by race (however in the context of the American working class there is room for debate.) What I’m getting at is basically the whole of the working class are ignored, it doesn’t matter if you’re white or black or Asian. They are ignored as a working class entity. Racially there is focus on minorities and I don’t think they enjoy that focus too much.

The way it seems is if you think the white working class need more attention paid to them then they will reap benefits from it as a race. As white people. This IS racist. Just as I think institutional racism reeks from every authority structure in society. They need benefits and attention paid to them as the working class and these benefits should be felt throughout the whole of the working class. Let us also not fall into the trap of forgetting that at the end of the bloody day we are a white country full of white people. I’m not even going to bother with the immigration bogeyman- both my folks are immigrants and I’m an Australian citizen. I hardly think I’m a huge threat to society. But I am white so does that make it okay? I don’t know and I don’t particularly care. If you look at what the white working class complain about it is resources. Jobs, houses and all that jazz. This stuff affects every single working class person in society regardless of race. But it becomes a racial issue. It is just another example of the false consciousness the oppressed in society are born into. If the people at the top make you think you’re getting a smaller slice of the societal pie because you’re white, it will stop you from realising your Asian neighbour probably has an even smaller piece. The reason you have little in life? Your class, not your race.

The sooner people realise this the sooner things start to change, the more they accept what is obviously a divide and rule tactic the deeper into this mess we get. Banging out Marx yet again, the working class need to wake up and become a class for itself.

I’ll leave you with one of those rare, decent HYS posts:

For centuries black people over the world have been not just ignored, but actively destroyed..who by? White people. Greedy, rich, white men, hungry for power and wealth. Those bullies used fear and propaganda to enlist working class white men to enslave people of colour to help take their land and raw materials. White working people have more in common with black working people than with rich white folks. Hopefully one day they’ll all unite.

Fumblewinter, London

The Death Brigade worked late into Sunday night preparing their banner. A collective effort of the group and a great success. The Foxtons security guards were quaking and the police were chilly.

Yeah it’s late my computer has been broken and I have been attempting to fix it non-stop practically since Sunday.

Dunno what these fellows were doing but they look guilty.