A-Infos (en) Britain, Anarchist journal Classs War #92 SUMMER 2007 - page 5 -

Brendan Barber - Bastard, Derek Simpson - Bigger Bastard. A REPORT FROM THE NHS 
DAY OF ACTION RALLY, SHEFFIELD, 3RD MARCH. ---- THE HEADLINE ---- SPEAKERS were 
Brendan Barber, TUC General Secretary, and Derek Simpson, Amicus General 
Secretary. Their offerings were totally misrepresentative of those attending the 
rally, who stood aghast listening to their sickening status quo, establishment 
crap. Barber is a typical union bureaucrat, a man in a suit, placating and 
dismissing the concerns of the workforce he is supposed to represent. And 
Simpson, apparently the pride of Sheffield, is New Labour up to his gills.
Brendan Barber said that the Government is in danger of squandering the 
political credit it has earned for its
investment in the NHS and the better patient care that
NHS staff are now delivering. Political credit? What
planet is this man on? The only credit they get is
from the PFI profiteers. The medical staff are utterly
demoralised. The investment is not going to patient
care, but lining the pockets of the carpetbaggers.
He went on to say, `This Government should be getting
much of the credit for this better NHS. It is not too
late to put the NHS back on track, and ministers are
certainly much more willing to talk to us since we
launched NHS Together - I welcome that. Our message
here today - and across the country - is work with us.'
Roughly translated this means, include us (the TUC
hierarchy) in your discussions, and we will smooth
the way.
Derek Simpson used his speech to promote New
Labour and the necessity of keeping them in power.
`Tories in government, unimaginable,' was his message
- apparently he could perceive a difference between
those loathsome shites and his Labour Party colleagues.
He even dismissed the mild notion of supporting
the Labour left candidate, John McDonnell, in the
leadership contest. No, he wants Brown and Cruddas
- more of the same, just different names.
If people are going to look to the likes of the TUC and
Labour loving bureaucratic union bosses like this pair
of twats, they are frigging doomed. All they want to
do is further facilitate Labour's `modernisation' plans,
get their palms greased with honours, and get New
Labour re-elected.
The NHS is being bled of its public funding by the
privateers, and its workers have been offered a `pay
rise' that equates to a real terms pay cut. There should
be some real impetus for militant action, but these
establishment turds will do all in their power to quell
the wrath.
There are many precedents for bureaucratic union
intervention obstructing worker/community action
(and you don't simply have to go back to the 1926
and 1984/5 miners strikes to find them). Look what
happened with bloody Dave Prentis, the Unison
General Secretary, and the public sector pensions
dispute prior to the last general election. All geared
for strike action then quashed - mustn't rock the boat
for the Labour Party!
Who the fuck do they think they are supposed to be
representing?
AAAAArrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhhh! BASTARDS!

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9/11 Conspiraloons Opposed

ONE OF THE daftest set of theories out there comes
courtesy of the "9/11 Truth Movement". These are
the jokers that try to convince the world and his wife
that Osama Bin Laden was not responsible for the
September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in New York.
In the UK a strange mixture of conspiracy theorists,
ex-spooks (including that old red baiter David Shayler)
anti-semites, new age greens and Muslims unable to
accept their co-religionists ever do anything wrong,
have joined forces in the UK and Ireland 9/11 Truth
Movement.
They want us to believe that anyone from Mossad
through to George W Bush himself was responsible,
and even that the Twin Towers were not hit by planes
at all but by holograms, whilst explosives planted
inside the towers brought them down.
This nonsense is easily laughed off by the establishment,
and of course Bush and Blair are quite happy to see
people discussing conspiracy theories rather than the
political issues that led the 9/11 attacks. Such as?
Perhaps all those years supporting and funding
Islamist bigots as a bulwark against Communism was
a bad idea. Perhaps sucking up to Saudi Arabia all the
time ­ home to 15 of the 19 hijackers ­ was not such
a good idea either?
This year has seen the beginnings of a backlash against
these clowns, whose cult-like behaviour and dismissal
of anyone who disagrees with them as "gatekeepers"
is as annoying as it is telling. Expect to see Class
War dismissed as "fake anarchists" or "Anarchist
gatekeepers" as a result of this article.
To view some of the counter arguments from people
tired of such conspiracy nonsense visit http://
911cultwatch.org.uk/

SECURITY, CRIME AND JUSTICE -The Nanny State With Handcuffs On

ACCORDING TO TONY Blair, September 11th 2001
and July 7th 2005 changed the security landscape
forever. This has become the all-encompassing
excuse for his various authoritarian dictats. The
latest of which are included in his recently released
`justice plan.'
The most disturbing of these proposals are in the
`Prevention' section of Blair's crime plan, and are a
direct attack on the working class, and specifically
the lowest paid working class. The stated intention
is early intervention in a child's life to prevent their
apparently inherent criminality from developing. He
also claims that they will tackle the underlying causes
of crime and address social exclusion, dysfunctional
families, drugs and alcohol abuse.
As usual the method to be used is highly intrusive social
control, where non-compliance to the government
model of a citizen will result in punitive measures
being taken. Effectively there is no choice for a family
or person once they are ensnared within the system.
It all smacks of old time social engineering and a
whole lot of coercion. Youth Inclusion and Support
Panels already intervene with `at risk' children in
the 8-13 range, and Youth Inclusion Programmes
provide distraction activities for the 13-16 year
olds. The government however, favour much earlier
intervention. They say, `there is scope to go even further
by intervening earlier in a child's life.' Parenting by
government agencies, or to the blueprint designed by
them is the preferred choice.
One of the main indicators to be used in determining
which child is `at risk' is highly offensive, i.e. children
living in very low income families. There is no mention
of closing the ever increasing wealth divide to remove
the disaffection that children in these circumstances
sometimes exhibit, just governmental control of
behaviour.
The Welfare State's `cradle to the grave' concept is now
being replaced with something similar, but sinisterly
different. It is an insidious expansion of governmental
interference in working class life, and it's all sticks no
carrots.

NEW LABOUR'S SHITTY BROWN BUDGET

IN THE LEAD up to his coronation, the lovely
Mr Brown has increasingly attempted to distance
himself from Blair and his own history as a fellow
architect of New Labour. He has been espousing
his affinity for `old' Labour values, and the Labour
Party's traditional voters. His media circus have
tried to portray him as a warm cuddly family man,
a man of the people and not the dour, saggy faced,
frugal, Presbyterian control freak who has to hold
the purse strings.
This re-scripting is of course utter shite, and has failed
miserably. He is New Labour through and through
- all blue with a transparent pink veneer. He has
supported all the Blairite policies carried out by this
government, in fact he is the instigator of many of
them. He supports all the public service reforms and
the private sector's profiteering, he supported the war
in Iraq, he supports the proposal to replace Trident. Do
we need to say more?
His claims to be a standard bearer for the working class
were further shown to be a sham when he announced
his latest budget. A budget that gave handsomely
to the wealthy at the expense of the least well off.
Corporation tax was cut to 28 per cent, from 30 per
cent. This applies to the rich commercial sector who
need very little help in keeping money to themselves.
Already these companies use tax avoidance practices
that result in a considerable reduction in expected
taxation income. This reduction is, on average, nearly
6% less corporation tax paid by the UK's top 50
companies than is expected. For the year 2004/5 this
amounted to £4.6 billion lost tax revenue, and £20
billion in the last 5 years. When added up for the rest
of the UK's companies the tax loss could be as much
as £9.2 billion per year.
Additionally they use deferred tax provisions, which
have risen by £3 billion a year since 2002. This now
stands at more than £36 billion for the top companies.
The tax breaks which have allowed this tax subsidy to
big business are the result of corporate tax allowances
given to encourage capital investment. However, they
are interest free, and have no specified repayment date.
In fact deferred taxation can be used by companies
whether or not there is any possibility of the amounts
owed being repaid. The top-rate of income tax
threshold is to rise from £38,000 to £43,000. A nice
little boon to managers and city dealers.
The final kick in the teeth for the low paid came with
the announcement that the existing 10% income tax
rate is to be abolished. This will increase tax for those
earning less than about £18,500. So thanks Gordy,
you really are a man of the people, providing they are
stinking rich.
If anyone still thinks anything will change for the
better with Brown as leader of the Labour Party, please
visit your local mental health unit. There should be a
place reserved for you, next to the man who claims to
be Napoleon.

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