indymedia: GROW UP

Thursday May 09, 2002 13:45

by db - non-aligned socialist with an anarchistic streak

Is this the best that the irish left can do!?!?!

I’m a revolutionary, I’m an anti-capitalist, I’m for unity where unity can be achieved and I’m a great fan of indymedia worldwide. But this is beyond a bloody joke, there are more posts attacking the SWP and Globalise resistance for calling a protest against police brutality than attacking the police who actually beat us up. We should be discussing a proper concrete strategy to counter the attacks of the state, instead of criticising one or two groups for standing up to the fuckers.
Where the fuck is the analysis on LePen or the growth of the far right across Europe, Its nowhere to be seen, what about the events in Palestine, nowhere. Instead everyone wants to attack one organisation.
If this is the best the Irish left can do then fucking hell what a bloody shame. One piece really got me, “I will work with nationalists or unionists… but not with the SWP”. You would work with a Tory Ulster Unionist who thinks you are scum, but not a member of the SWP who (despite their many, many faults) are trying to build a genuine alternative to the society we live in at the moment.
Go to the main indymedia site, write a post about the ills of the SWP in Ireland and tell them to see the arguments on this newswire, then watch the entire international anti-capitalist movement laugh at us.
In italy, a country with a worse political sectarian history than us, they are talking more about the carbienari than the largest revolutionary socialist party. They are talking about the situation in Nepal and debating about the role of hamas in Palestine.
In france, they are talking about LePen and the bomb in pakestan. They are also debating strategy and tactics.

GROW UP OR BE SMASHED BY THE STATE!!!