County Hall Attacked

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The Nottinghamshire County Hall was attacked last night with hammers and graffiti. Messages of "Fight the Cuts" and "Fuck Austerity" were left on the walls of the entrance facing the trent, whilst several windows were smashed.

This was a small gesture, it exists alongside all other gestures large and small, which refuse to accept "the way things are".

We are members of the insobordinant masses, we won't attend your marches or listen to your speeches. We know the goverment will keep cutting in order to pay for the banks mistake. We know that capitalism is the crisis, and that it will continue to be.

We will continue to attack wherever we see possibilities. We will continue to attack in solidarity with all those who are abused by goverments and banks in the name of capitalism. We will continue to attack in solidarity with anyone who has fought back before us and with anyone who will fight back after us.

The system is killing us and we must fight back.

 

 

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Well done

Comment Published: October 14, 2010 15:30 by Hammerhead

Well done for getting off your knees and taking the fight back to the bastards.

I look forward to seeing the unions and the left condemning these actions and showing what irrelevant cowards they are very soon.

Well done

Comment Published: October 16, 2010 17:09 by Glazier

"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics."
-Emmeline Pankhurst (suffragette)

Building communities of resistance

Comment Published: October 19, 2010 10:40 by Laura Biding

More interesting than the damage is the aloofness from any sort of engagement with people other than those presumably in the same ideological camp as the person who did the deed and wrote the statement. Marches and meetings are old-fashioned and all too easily dominated by reformist agenda and the authoritarian left, sure (although this has not happened so far in NottsSOS, and may not have to once the tendency that wants to engage with the Labour group realises what a non-starter that is). But mainly this is because the left has taken the initiative and there are more of them. We could have done this (some of us have been trying for around a year, but we are too few).

So, what strategies do you have for getting to a situation where people realise that their interests lie in common and other than a mass movement that is not ideologically pure? Insurrection, if that's what you want, doesn't just 'happen' and is not brought about by slogans and statements in obscure media. Even if it did, what would we do next? After the cops go away, how could we get libertarain ideas accross as a viable way to organise society, unless we were already part of militant communities and had played a part in making them militant, and consciously so? That comes through arguing for our ideas about a better world with real people face to face (we seem a little sinister otherwise - not that I'm against strategically smashing stuff up too!), by encouraging and helping mass collective direct action (it gets all the goods, not just the vote), and by offering and helping to organise practical mutual solidarity that is explicitly ideological (i.e. against private property).

Otherwise our ideas will have no credibility when push comes to shove. In Britain at least, we have to build community where it doesn't currently exist, and that is an important thing to offer in the present situation. So i want to know, if someone agrees with your slogan and statement, what do they do now? Can they join you, meet you, work with you? No. But they can come to a meeting and hear you win the argument against reformism and leftism, or they can talk to you on a march if you give out leaflets with your ideas on that march.

You can be part of a wider, mass campaign without selling out your core principles. You might have to make some compromises in that its leaflets etc might not reflect everything you stand for. But you would have to do this if you managed to attract any significant number of people to a less 'leftist' campaign. Until people in a mass campaign like NottsSOS tries to prevent you from putting your own views foward too on those marches and at those meetings, to influence other people with them, then you can help build the sort of communities that we all hope will start to emerge.

Otherwise, what IS your strategy. Indeed, what are your goals? They are not communicated in the slogan or in the statement.

PS

Comment Published: October 19, 2010 10:44 by Laura Biding

Oops, the first sentence in my second paragraphy should read: So, what strategies do you have for getting to a situation where people realise that their interests lie in common, other than a mass movement that is not ideologically pure?