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And I Am.
On 27 October 2017, a resolution based on the "Declaration of the representatives of Catalonia" declaring the independence of Catalonia was voted in Parliament and was approved with 70 votes in favor, 10 against, and 2 blank votes
This is a product of that day and the preceeding months when the Catalan citizens took to the streets in an attempt to settle their own destiny in an open democratic election. This was written at the time, Given the combined sentence of 100 years imprisonment of the Catalan leaders Raül Romeva, Joaquim Forn, Jordi Turull, Oriol Junqueras, Josep Rull, Jordi Cuixart, Carme Forcadell, Dolors Bassa and Jordi Sànchez.
I dedicate this piece in solidarity with the Catalan people and the struggle for independence.
I am Jordi and I am a Catalan I am Marta and I too am a Catalan I am Alexi and I am also a Catalan I am Estel, Alba, Neus & Lucia and we are all Catalan
I am a shop worker and I am a Catalan
I am a waiter and I am a Catalan
I am a bus driver and I am a Catalan
I am a single father with two children in Tarragona and I am a Catalan
I am a recently married mother who works for a bank in Barcelona and I am a Catalan
I am a daughter who works for a telemarking corporation in Madrid to a Mother from Reus, today I tell them that I am a Catalan
I am a farmer who’s crop was marked for export to Europe, today I tell them like me that it is Catalan
I am the market stall owner who has not worked in a week as I am one of the millions on the street and I am a Catalan
I am a Footballer who cried because I know my place was with my people that was the same day I would tell the world that I am a Catalan
I am a government worker currently under arrest by the Guarda Civil for giving my people the right to choose their future and I am a Catalan
I am a pensioner in hospital from blunt force trauma because I blocked the door so my people could say that they and I are Catalans
I am a university student who stayed with his little brother and built a barricade outside the high school he attended which was used as polling station unable to vote his voice is of a Catalan
I am the high school teacher who taught them both to believe what is right and brought the supplies to defend mine and their futures as we are all Catalans
I am a woman’s rights lawyer from Seville who now works in Girona who is European and also Spanish but with the actions of my government today I too have become Catalan
I am a firefighter who joined with his fellow firefighters and protected civilians from the batons of the police who could not understand a single word we said as I only can speak Catalan
I am a local journalist who took photos as people were shot with bullets made of plastic by the Spanish police manufactured in Europe to suppress the actions of a people who are all Catalan
I am the doctor on the thirty first of September who saw to the beaten and abused, none expressing even a single regret in the knowledge that theirs is the blood that drains away in the fall rain, the blood that coats the cobbled pathways, the blood given of the Catalan
I am the Singer and poet who can remember back when our words were banned and I am afraid admit may happen again as the songs I sing are Catalan
I am the grandfather who was born the day Franco and his army marched into my capital and today I may die under similar conditions as me and my history are entwined, that history is Catalan
I am a grandmother who’s village has been fined ten times for flying the Estelada the flag of our country as it is a crime to display our flag in our country and all ten times we refused to take it down and paid any cost as money has no importance to show we are Catalan
We are the youth activists who handed out leaflets and created media shared our story’s and showed the world the brutality of Spain and it’s monarchy, a raised fist a four fingered salute we believe we are building the future in front of us as we are the daughters and sons of Catalans
We are striking factory workers who in solidarity with the people’s right to a free and open democracy a refusal to be cogs of the Madrid parliament we have spoken and we have said we are Catalan
And we are the Two million people under suppression and violence left our homes our works our schools to stand in line for hours to decide within just a few minutes, each of us changing the course history in a second. We are the millions who said we and the nation are all one of the same and that nation is Catalan
I am the Son
The daughter
The mother
The father
The worker
The Songs
The Stories
The Poems
The Blood
The Soil
The people
The Pride
The Defiance
The Catalan
And I am Catalonia
Si Catalonia!
Viva Catalonia!
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Dilute the minds With anger to the atmosphere aimed at Specifically everything and nothing so That the recipient feels lost and confused they abdicate from existence itself
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When we see art when we see Graffiti on streets and homes on windows inside and out, when we are able to see someone exercise there right to art and beauty. This is where we find that, there is a person! A person with real thoughts and emotions, existence! in its purest form.
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22: Without a Clue
what's it like being twenty reading falling in love cycling the Riviera gorgeous and content the time of my life and i didn't even know it yet. the grand cities the rivers so pristine i never have looked so good as i did then. there she goes again whispers past, midnight in western Europe is the most beautiful it has ever been breakfast in a summer dress looking up for the first time feeling alive. a smile uncontrolled and fantastic having a private dance in a public place a giggle to myself because my heart is stolen and i don't think i could ever ask it back. Kiss me, i wont be any richer. the world would have just gotten that little bit brighter. come closer and il tell you that you are just amazing and i frankly don't give a damn who knows it. cloudless sky and i can see the stars in day time i fell for it in an instant studying fine arts and the poetry of dead men. still alive to me and whoever else. the library parties of Byron Bennett and Poe, Woolf, satire, de Bouvair and Hemingway brawling whomever! how gentle i read those books, magic in my eyes. I will be on the streets of Barcelona Madrid and Majorca too carried away with a beautiful face. thought unspoiled. Ask me again, what is home? Will i be coming back once again? A Voice for the smoke filled rooms, a heartbreaker and the coveted artisan and still none of us can figure out what love means. An empty bottle of cava and the Las Ramblas bare my mark. been so long since i seen the waves break at my feet and i had the time to ponder existence. The sundown a sky of fire. Don’t worry about the money for if i should die before you i will tell you the secret of who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. Plummet before it becomes night and the tab must be payed and i start having a crush on you. My Wondrous Proud face boy, they will write books about me and call it spellbound. The Civilian Symphonic and Three penny operas of Brecht in Berlin for the downtrodden and hopelessly fashionable i will be theirs! The beauts of Scandinavian sing punk rock propaganda. single handedly wrecking the establishment with blonde and mystical hair standing with Swiss football supporters singing Irish rebel songs with German socialists. The humanity of it all! A clusterfuck of passion and play waking in the morning to a crisp light of dawn, the rallying cry of the dreamer and Danish anarchist. A night to many and not a pillow or boy to rest my head just more chains to worry about i defy you thee! Chains Chains and more chains. Break your chains my weary Travellers, we are the liberation tonight. The Flanders fields will have the ghosts dancing in my naive embrace, the sounds and songs of a generation long remembered tremendously in need of gentle affection my brave men and boys. Do not go instead Rage, rage against the dying of the light. barefoot, the grass at my feet i will be spirited away like a prayer and wake up one more time. Sick. We are all sick, sick sick and dying. colour is life and dance is joy. reading is immortal and sex is everything. beautiful boys and handsome girls chasing each other till the cows come home and the pigs fly. telephonic transcendency, the air waves are alive with the sound orgasms deep penetration, sweat, and mating calls. flesh incarnate we are pleasure maintained and lust forgotten egocentric and we are fucking happy. tell the squares the circles are in charge and my boys my girls we can not ever go home.
to a bed of my own, to be some where new, with a beautiful view so we can be twenty two. without a clue.
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Butchered And Dammed

We as a society must denounce the promotion of militarism and the glorification of war for war is not beautiful War is not Glorious. War is Disgusting, despicable that makes murder out of honest men. Children in British army uniform plasterd over television is indoctrination to believe that militarism is a natural act that to normalise weaponry guns and murder from a young age is acceptable that the professional army is a morally righteous organisation. When we talk about the first world war it must be with derision and horror, that how could humanity be so flawed so inept at taking care of itself we should not be standing silent in the wind but angry. Angry at the state that lead working men and boys to there deaths for no reason other than pride and empire. There is no honour in silence no honour in reverence as the dead are gagged while petulant children speak there words. 16 million people and for what? We should not be standing proud but horrified of every minute of the misery remember the solderers and forget the butchers and the empires that they died for on all fronts exploited. This Evil, This carnage, the state sponsored genocide and annihilation of other human beings this must be met with fury that with our minds and our body’s we say no more, no more to war in our name no more conflict in our name let the propertied classes fight there own battles for themselves. Easy calling to arms behind the parapet when your hands own the land When fathers watch there boys and girls with no money and no job have no choice but to join the army’s that send them to kill in the name of monarchy and special interest let there children die first let them who declare war fight there own interests. let the kaisers and kings draw pistol rifle artillery on each other and see how quickly this world will understands the true nature of peace and conversation.
Eugene Debs Union Organiser and “leader” of the socialist party of America was jailed for 10 years of his life for opposing world war one with these words. With no response other than fear. Imprisonment is the preserve for those who are right and just to oppose the slaughter that potentially awaited Americans in 1918. “For in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.” he continued
“Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords who inhabited the castles whose towers may still be seen along the Rhine concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street go to war.
The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable serfs fought all the battles. The poor, ignorant serfs had been taught to revere their masters; to believe that when their masters declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to fall upon one another and to cut one another’s throats for the profit and glory of the lords and barons who held them in contempt. And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose–especially their lives.
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
And here let me emphasize the fact–and it cannot be repeated too often–that the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace. Yours not to reason why; Yours but to do and die. That is their motto and we object on the part of the awakening workers of this nation. If war is right let it be declared by the people. You who have your lives to lose, you certainly above all others have the right to decide the momentous issue of war or peace….
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. You need to know that you were not created to work and produce and impoverish yourself to enrich an idle exploiter. You need to know that you have a mind to improve, a soul to develop, and a manhood to sustain….
They are continually talking about your patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches. And now among other things they are urging you to “cultivate” war gardens, while at the same time a government war report just issued shows that practically 52 percent of the arable, tillable soil is held out of use by the landlords, speculators and profiteers. They themselves do not cultivate the soil. Nor do they allow others to cultivate it. They keep it idle to enrich themselves, to pocket the millions of dollars of unearned increment….
And now for all of us to do our duty! The clarion call is ringing in our ears and we cannot falter without being convicted of treason to ourselves and to our great cause.
Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.” While these men lay dead in the fields of France Germany and Russia. We glorify them and those who sent them to die stand above them silently and talk about bravery & sacrifice made for country. How sickening our response should be only those alive can change the past to suit there gain we distort and blame no one but the situation because to think critically would leave us in contempt of the ruling class. Those who have the power to make war declare war send boys to war there actions are the cause that millions of men never came home and the ones who did were never the same again. A whole generation butchered and dammed.
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The Red Banners Waving

“It well recalls the triumphs past, It gives the hope of peace at last; The banner bright, the symbol plain, Of human right and human gain.” Today! Today Comrades. Today we stand, Today we fight. We are berated on all sides by enemy’s and the so called friends. Today the people pay for bombs they never wanted. Today Three and half million starve and live in poverty. Americans bomb, Pakistanis murder, Syrian dictators now become allies and where are we? Stagnant, hopeless. You have been lied to. They lied to you like they always lied. You really wanted to buy it you wanted to believe it but your chumps. I have no sympathy for you. We were one day away from nuclear disarmament. Now Today were one day off bombing Iraq for the 5th time, how did it come to this? How could we let this happen. Millions march for the planet earth but barely a whisper heard. A million people believe in a better world and there voices fall on deaf ears. I Am Sickened Today. Sickened we want to indiscriminately bomb the world bomb our problems away. Not in my name! The British state no more! Not in our name never again! There Is a problem they are correct with the ideas of extreme Islamic fundamentalists but this isn’t the answer. This is posturing, This is showing the world there still big, there the man they “defeated” nationalism now there ready to take on all there enemy’s at the expense of more working class people let the propertied class fight own battles before choosing to bomb areas with human life’s weapons do not discriminate they fragment and murder children men and woman friend enemy alike. The empire strikes swiftly. “we have the same ideas of freedom as America” “the Americans don’t go far enough” “woman are bombing Isis” This is jingoism happing today as I speak the bells are ringing the sabres are rattling the boys are going to war! The economics of conscription The right are on war path and labour coming in tow who stands for working people now who stands for those who say never again who stands for the working man and woman brave enough to resist the onslaught of propaganda. Fear the Germanic hordes. The baboons want to beat there chest and look important and send the poor to wash there hands in blood. To the barricades! We have returned to saying no we have returned to resistance again as is the nature of left. The old are getting sicker, the children still cant eat a descent meal the drunks still drunk and the drugged are drugged. These streets are still dirty and the homeless are still homeless. To truly care for the people you help the people to protect the people you fight landlords you feed the starving. You house the homeless and You mend the sick. You do Not spend those resources bombing sending planes and equipment half away across the world. We resist these butchers marching with there apron on sharpening the knifes looking to distract and flex the muscles they are truly pathetic little Shits. Horrible and dangerously weak minded timid people. Now we say no and take to the streets with red raised high in defence of people like you and me. “Then raise the scarlet standard high, Within its shade we'll live and die, Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here” Thank you.
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To Be A Nation Again

Flightless bird. When ownership property and humanity butcher nature. Imprison and cage proud animals we as humans in Scotland are nature. We are the essence of pride in nature where birds fly rabbits hop and bears roam. Working in perpetual harmony with everyone and everyone in it, that is what we wanted to create. That the people with, help the people without, start something new and create and imagine. The most human of human invention that we build. Watch the way the hummingbirds fly watch the way animals move and work together against predators we protect. It is in our nature to protect but it Is also to create, always create when it doesn’t work start again that’s how nature works it keeps on moving, always forward, never with the old and we see the worst in us the techniques of control the artificial the butchery. The bird in its cage never seen the world outside to scared to uncertain about the future out there. It will never know what it's capability is when the door is open and its free to fly it stays, it cowers away, in fear of the bright lights the sound of the world because it is happy here in its captivity we will make it that tiny bit bigger for the all the trouble we caused you. It will never see how small a world it has because it has never seen the outside walls. It will never know how big and beautiful nature is it will never get a chance to fly freely carelessly not giving a single fuck it will never have those moments. Those perfect moments of bliss and beauty, everything good all wrapped into one image and time. It will never have those things pretty things happy things sad things horrible things it will never stretch and expand never grow. It is true it will never have fear or want it will survive it because of its caution and go back in, missing the chance of a lifetime and continue with with the worst of feelings, what if. It continue going back to get fed and watered in its cage its little nothings its made up sentiment like the whales with the deflated fin swimming in circles and truly what sort of a life is that, one not worth living. let us not pretend lets not touch ourselves up masturbate out sentiment like this is an historic moment, this is great. Think. Truly think, what we have done. Nothing. We fucked up. We had a chance to fly we had a chance to create make a name for ourselves we had liberation on a plate the door sprung open all we had to do was take one step past the line one tiny little step and we would be free with the birds and bees and trees and the rivers running naked screaming YES! it would have been ours for the taking but we have said no. No more to optimism, no more to hope and belief, no more to pride. We passed on the plate and left our body’s to the hands of the masters. They now can choose to be kind, keep the promises it made or they can be mean they can be vengeful. All that matters is we gave it back. We gave it back to them we took our body’s and gave it back to the hierarchy, where the master is still the master and the owner is still the owner. We have left ourselves to the mercy of someone else and I for one am sick of answering to someone else, to the boss, the manager, being someone else’s boy someone else’s girl. I want to be my own man or woman with a strong independent mind free to walk talk and do as they please become the purest of ideals. No one said it would be easy that is life but now it would be one worth living where we feel and think, where our decisions are ours and we can be wrong and we can be right, but it was ours and we can go to sleep knowing we are the only thing holding us back. Now we answer to daddy now we answer to the boss now we answer to someone else and that is now our lot in life to be there for someone else’s gain someone else’s benefit and all I ask is are we happy with that? Can we be happy with that? Because today I'm not Dancing.
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Today let us amaze the world let us become reborn and with those beautiful blues. As the world shines bright on us again when mother earth looks at her child waking up to the world and her people empowered and enlightened. We say hello. We say hello to the world to our old friends the republics in France and Ireland or daughters and sons in Canada, America, Australia and those who have came from every corner of the world and the new friends we are ready to meet in the Basque country and Catalonia we say hello to the world ready to make friends with the new and reconcile our differences with the old Let us begin sowing the seeds of Justice, Equality, Health Education and Liberty for all. Let us amaze the world and take pride in walking standing up for ourselves we will become a voice a beacon to the world. We are kind, hopeful, honest, wonderful people we have the love of humanity in all our hearts and we will be held back no longer and say never again to those who tell us we cant do it we are no good and not good enough let us astound and amaze for the benefit of all people around the world and i think personally i truly believe we can and we can start Today.
Vote yes, please.
Thank you.
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New Labour, New Britain
“the only correct, point of view, the Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party, because, although made up of workers, it is led by reactionaries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act quite in the spirit of the bourgeoisie. It is an organisation of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers with the aid of the British Noskes and Scheidemanns (Social Democrats)" Vladimir Lenin 1920 The labour party have failed cataclysmically. Failed on every level of what it means to be Labour berating people demanding people to vote for them and the higher ups not a bone in there body cares about a single person in the country they wish to rule instead they bow profiteers and corporations shouting down Scottish nationalists in the name of British nationalism. what happened? What happened to the nationalisation of the health the transport the industry that what is prized that makes a country great. sold to outside capital to make quick profits and they never made it right they created the boom in service industry. Minimum wage minimum hours poverty pay for poverty work spending vast amounts of wealth chasing bogeymen and bombs in the sand. 2.2 billion off the stock market is nothing compared to what these power hungry opportunists did in 12 years in 2007 don't ever forget the helplessness the jobs In one day just gone never to be seen again, now they beg us. Beg bribe and intimate us the bitter old man and his last stand to remain relevant coughing up blood screaming Union! Union! the new world order as the poor the impoverished the disenfranchised the homeless still starve in our streets still struggle to find a home one every hour a family is still kicked out of there home bailiffs bought and paid for to batter down doors because your wealth isn’t enough, workers of all ages forced to work for the most degrading of wages brought on by the power and economic arm of capital and where are our champions drinking champagne crying Union! If you don't know, vote no! how dare you think for yourself and research the evil that is happening to you? How dare you stand up to the ideas of capitalism? how dare you organise? don't you know we tell you what to do and think we are the labour party trust us baby we can change we are nicer now... the old man was killed by the Mannequin with a masquerade smile and it is his sons that have taken over what happened to the plight of the working people? The fight of the working class? The idea of socialism is weak in this country so there is no point in defending it. And You wont find power that way, all that matters to them now is government sell our ideals down the river give it a makeover and call it social democracy put it on our cards and change the very nature of what it means to be labour. Full and Honest employment Full and Sustained housing. Protecting our people from any and all threats from the capitalist institutions we are a proud and strong people and we will not be taken for granted. We remember the unemployment we remember the de-industrialisation we remember the humiliation we remember the indignity’s the free work programs the zero hours contracts we remember the poll tax the bedroom tax the strikes the police the poverty wages the illegal wars the support for dictators around the world we remember selling and producing the bombs that can wipe out the world in an afternoon We remember the depression the suicide the metropolitan annihilation the alcohol the drugs the helplessness the fear. And we Say Never Fucking Again! Vote yes and kick these bastards out for good Lamont, Darling, Miliband Reid, Alexander, Sarwar, Curran and take our party back! Vote no and do it just the same. For me its home and I wont let them run a mock any longer. The ideals of social justice don’t have borders the ideas of Ending wage slavery economic slavery helping our fellow human beings live a life of respect and dignity, these ideas do not have borders Wiping sexism racism imperialism homophobia xenophobia and capitalism off the face of the earth see no lines in the ground but we do have to start somewhere. We need stand our ground and start somewhere and we have a chance to make it, here in Scotland on Thursday and how wonderful is that. “To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.” Clause IV Drafted by Sidney Webb in November 1917. Adopted 1918 Thank you.
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The Monster Under Our Beds
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in secret – between the European Union and the USA. As officials from both sides acknowledge, the main goal of TTIP is to remove regulatory ‘barriers’ which restrict the potential profits to be made by transnational corporations on both sides of the Atlantic.
Yet these ‘barriers’ are in reality some of our most prized social standards and environmental regulations, such as labour rights, food safety rules (including restrictions on GMOs), regulations on the use of toxic chemicals, digital privacy laws and even new banking safeguards introduced to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. The stakes, in other words, could not be higher. War On Want
“The NHS in England is under direct threat from TTIP as the UK Government has opened the service up to private provision, and there is growing concern that the Scottish NHS will come under pressure from corporate interests. Scotland needs its own voice in these negotiations, and while I welcome Alex Neil’s statement that the Scottish Government wants the health service exempted from TTIP, I remain concerned that we don’t have the power to properly oppose these deals. Alison Johnstone, Green MSP for Lothian, That’s the thing that enables you to control the costs at a national level. And that’s what must be protected at all costs. That’s why I’m really clear that markets are the wrong answer and we’ve got to pull the system out of, to use David Nicholson’s words, 'morass of competition'. Andy Burnham, Labour MP TTIP; Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Beware of this be scared of this. When this word comes up be fearful be angry for this, these words are pure corruption incarnate this proposal effectively consolidates the ideology of the corporation and there business supporters this law effective immediately after it is finalised gives corporations the exact power it has in the US now in the EU which means from the end of this year corporations will have the power to sue governments if they are seen to be hindering profits this allows the total economic domination of the European union by corporations this gives them the power to bully berate manipulate for profit make there way into our daily life's they will have economic power like never before The same way they do in the United States they will assault the NHS they will abuse governments and they will walk the halls of power as overlords the men behind the scenes will have effectively grabbed true power gained sovereign control of Europe enforce US meat, Monstanto's genitally “enhanced crops” There hostile take overs, enforcing there lack of safety concern in issues such as Fracking the most grotesque and disgusting form of resource acquirement on the face of the earth. There hideous attitude towards dismantling trade unions as they effectively have done in the United States This brutal from of capitalism will be here next year aided and abetted with the connivance of the ruling class and the ruling political class commonly known as the conservative party and its supporters. who work with, believe and share these ideology. These powers will effectively seal and lock in the ideology of corporate power in which you no longer will be seen as a person but a resource, a number comparable to the amount of money you have manipulated in your favour and expendable when this is not your advantage a dynamic form of mining. Seizing the caufers of the expendable non establishment the working and middle class which they have been doing for years. To make us profitable servants. And us powerless to stop them. Be afraid of this because its coming and its coming for us and we must be ready. The Best Way in my view is to break from any potential agreement take time and consult the population like they will have in Norway and Iceland we cannot blindly sleepwalk into this as it passes parliament after parliament without the consolidation of the people and the will of the people like we would have in a independent nation and not a member of the EU we have a potential chance save ourselves from this vote yes. please.
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We are strong, we are beautiful. We are the future, we are yes. It is in our hands it's in our heads its in our hearts from the ground we walk on to the sky we look up to. The chance the most powerful thing we as humans can do is believe in ourselves the power of self determination the power in ourselves in our towns our city’s that for once in a very long time we have a direct say what happens in our lives and do we wish to hold onto that spark that beautiful wonderful marvellous extraordinary spark and let it grow let it be in our streets in our hills our trees our rivers our children, our lovers, our friends, our family’s do we give them the chance to say who were are and who we can be. That we can say that this land is our land and it can be your land too it was made for all of us or do we let it dim, do we give in to those voices that say we are not good enough that we are too fat too ugly too old too skinny to go to the dance. Or do we say hello to the world and that we will protect these shores with everything we have got. It is the fight for our lives if given the chance, make this world beautiful for all its people the sun will set on the union flag and its empire and we can start a fresh and raise the flag of international solidarity and be be proud to say this is who were are this is what we believe and we will not ever take no for an answer.
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A Declaraton
We have been duped. We have to seriously ask ourselves do we look at the British state its grotesque and hideous evil in its actions its murderous chase for resources it has inflicted on the Iraqi Afghani and Libyan people and the economic injustice here in our own cities and towns, do we wish to be a part of this? We have to seriously ask do we want to be a part of what is essentially a rouge state. A state who is willing torture people in far off nations Steal the resources of sovereign territories and go to war and starve millions make homeless and destitute its own people all for the profits of a few. This Vote is not a happy discussion or just a change in lifestyle as they make it out to be. This vote poses a very serious question and matter we have to address. do we wish to support a corrupt immoral pathologically flawed state and if so. I find it no longer appropriate to suggest voting no can be considered a morally justified act and we should not be ashamed to admit that. There comes a point when we have to take the façade off and we have to say with a closed fist that we can not and will never support a morally flawed insane and corrupt British state That we refuse to become a part of the British state and reject the British state from a community level to a national level for all the injustices all the evil the bombs the inhumanity to its own people and people around the world all for the sake of profit and power. A declaration that the people in the territory known as Scotland reject the British state and for once be able to control its own affairs its own resources its own policy its own treatment of human beings as a new deal For all its people, today.
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I have no country to fight for. My country is the earth. I am a citizen of the world
Eugene Debs. September 1915
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Nationalism
We must as the left stand against the forces and corrupting influence of nationalism and the identity of the nationalist struggle be it British imperialistic power of London or the Blood and soil attitude of Edinburgh and the SNP. The very Concept of nationalism creates contempt for neighbours that working class woman and men in Aberdeen are somewhat different to working class women and men in Liverpool or Lillie or Dortmund and Budapest or Johannesburg or Jakarta working class is working class it holds no nationality no gender no creed. We must find these nationalistic tendencies repugnant that our comrades are our comrades. This should not contradict ourself for support of an independent state an independent state is a blank canvas. A chance for all working class people to seek a better direction in there life's to run there own affairs. Raising the flag of solidarity and welcoming in our sisters and brothers to there shores that will protect them from the onslaught of capital and corruption. We must if needed be ready to stand alone to fight with our bare fists, any and all Capitalistic, Economic and corporatist imperialism To the benefit of our people. all of our people. by any means necessary. These shores will be our shores the workers shores. the workers sea the workers for the workers for the Inclusion and benefit of workers! Until we realise that we need to change our emotional physical and mental outlook on life at the very least the powerless shall be the powerful that me and you will be truly powerful instead of being brought to heel by voting in favour every 5 years of the British Business and Aristocratic classes. It will be you! It will be your neighbour it will be your town your city that community is powerful Reject privilege Refuse nationalism most importantly Love yourself. Love you Neighbours the struggle is not about you but the one beside you, the one less off than you that, this could be you the Empowerment of everyone is within our grasps direct and involved democracies that we matter for once our life's for the empowerment of all powerless people around the world.
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In view of eventualities like those indicated, it is our business as Socialists to develop a “class patriotism,” refusing to murder one another for a sordid world capitalism. The absurdity of the present situation is surely apparent when we see British Socialists going out to murder German Socialists with the object of crushing Kaiserism and Prussian militarism. The only real enemy to Kaiserism and Prussian militarism, I assert against the world, was and is German Social-Democracy. Let the propertied class go out, old and young alike, and defend their blessed property. When they have been disposed of, we of the working class will have something to defend, and we shall do it. John Maclean
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In Gaza. The systematic annihilation of its resources. First its homes then its shelters and eventually its infrastructure and means of stability. The murder of its children, Its men and woman. The Heartless face of Israeli politics. More importantly the right wing of the Likud have found great gains from seeing the "problem" as "manageable" rather than solving it gains its national appeal from "cutting the grass" becoming the "strong man" by keeping Gaza on the brink of starvation the Inhuman siege. Counting of the daily intake of calories to restrict food supply's the censorship of its own media denying press from publishing the names of the Palestinian dead it's more vicious genocide. Genocide by numbers. To Dampen international condemnation, To Ignore that they are the powerful To manufacture a perpetual crisis and panic for Political control. For which we must see as barbaric to see them The Likud party and the even more right wing coalition unfit for purpose there extreme form of nationalism allows to them to morally permit this sort of butchery on a virtually defenceless people.
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“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality” Mikhail Bakunin
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