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Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary said:
Grenfell Tower & a rotten coalition government… DAY OF RAGE
Queens Speech, Wed 21 June
Shut Down London - Bring Down the Government
Walk out of school, take the day off, call in sick, strike…
Meet Shepherds Bush 1pm to march on Parliament
Grenfell: tears and rage
- Justice for Grenfell Tower residents. No Cover up – the full truth must be told NOW.
- Stop the social & ethnic cleansing of London – reverse the cuts & sell offs of council housing, for a London wide programme of council homes building & rent controls. Quality, safe & affordable homes for ALL
- Stop the scapegoating of immigrants - defend freedom of movement. No new immigration controls. End tuition fees & bring back EMA – free education is a right.
- End Austerity; reverse the cuts and attacks on our public services.
On Wednesday morning, 14 June, we woke up to the devastating scenes of fire raging through Grenfell Tower. Words cannot do justice to the heartbreaking sadness, solidarity and absolute fury we are all feeling.
What will likely be over 100 working-class and poor people, of all races and faiths, immigrants and citizens, were murdered by this rotten capitalist system, which puts profit before people. In the faces of those who escaped, their friends, family and community we see ourselves. In the outpouring of practical solidarity and support we have felt the unity of our integrated, proud and defiant London family.
In one of the wealthiest boroughs in the country, the demands from poor and working class residents for the simple right to safety and security have been repeatedly and disdainfully ignored. Combustible cladding was put on Grenfell Tower to hide raw concrete from the delicate eyes of wealthy homeowners and millionaire investors with no concern for safety. Our lives are cheap to the billionaire property developers in their bloodthirsty quest for profit.
Comparisons have been made to Hurricane Katrina in the US; the criminal negligence and racism shown towards those overwhelmingly black, poor and working class communities. Though integrated, the majority of residents in Grenfill Tower were black, Arab, Asian and immigrant families; many homes will have included undocumented friends and family who may never be identified. Everyone knows they are drip-feeding us information, withholding numbers of those dead for fear of our rage. Families, friends and loved ones are left to search hospital to hospital, pleading to see if their loved one is there. The community and people from across London have been holding together the local relief effort with little support or back up – we do this because we feel deeply the pain and loss, while those in power prepare their excuses, diversions and cover-up. Across London and beyond, for everyone who has lived in council housing, social housing or asylum housing we know only too well the stink of ass covering and buck passing. The council blame the contractors, the contractors blame the fire regulations, the politicians blame each other and so it continues. The fact is we will have no truth or justice whilst Theresa Mays government with her cabinet of millionaires holds sway – they have got to go.
Class war – no justice, no peace; bring down the government
Theresa May presides over a government, which uses racism and anti immigrant bigotry to hold on to power. For seven years we have lived through brutal austerity, cuts & anti-immigrant attacks leading to countless deaths. The Tories and their buddies in UKIP raced each other for who could be the most racist in the run up to Brexit; a vile referendum built on the back of scapegoating immigrants. May and her rich, corrupt friends in government sow division in the working class; demonizing Muslim communities and scapegoating immigrants to divert from its war crimes. Because this IS war, a class war, and right now, though we are grieving we must also go on the offensive to ensure a tragedy like this does not happen again.
Politicians, and many community and religious leaders will be looking to divert our rage and fury into inquiries, investigations, reports, court hearings, and parliamentary processes. We all know how that turns out. From Bloody Sunday, to Hillsborough – unless we build our independent movement on the streets and in our communities and schools, those mechanisms for reaching truth and justice will be delayed, corrupted, minimized and rendered toothless; ‘justice’ will be delayed, which means justice will be denied. We will not accept those brush-offs and diversions, we will not settle for less than the destruction of Mays coalition of austerity & bigotry – we must bring down this government.
We are stronger than we know
Our generation, with black, Asian, Muslim and immigrant youth at the forefront, a generation that has fought hard on every front; from racist wars to police brutality, from education cuts to immigrant rights, have instigated a seismic shift to the left in the political landscape in the recent election. The ruling class and their politicians have been caught by surprise and flail in desperation to regain control. What has happened since last Friday’s election result both affirms the righteousness of the wave of anger and determination, which destroyed Theresa May’s authority at the ballot box, AND is a stark warning that we cannot wait or rely on electoral or judicial processes to win justice.
With last week’s election result we delivered a blow to the racist scapegoating of immigrants, which has been the fallback policy of politicians in all of the main parties for more than three decades. It’s led to the humiliation of Theresa May and a unstable government in coalition with the ultra right, unionist anti-Catholic, anti LGBT, anti women’s rights Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).........
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I wonder if Corbyn will be leading it, sounds like his real manifesto.
