MI VOLAS HALTIGI DE ELEKTI !

-> the other campaign 2010
A RADICAL, WORKING-CLASS INITIATIVE IN RESPONSE TO PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTIONS…

The Other Campaign 2010 was initiated by Liverpool Solidarity Federation.

The aim is to build a loose network of anti-capitalist, libertarian groups and individuals who believe that:

1. Politics must be liberated from the rotten influence of politicians and bureaucrats. As individuals we must take back control over our lives and not allow power to be exercised on our behalf.

2. The anti-working class agenda of our corrupt political elite (such as the imminent wave of public sector cuts) will not be defeated through the ballot box, but on the streets and picket lines.

-> http://www.direct-action.org.uk/doc...

Politics is the art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Benjamin Disraeli

One of the defining tenets setting libertarian socialism apart from authoritarian political traditions of both left and right, is an unshirking commitment to the principles of direct democracy. This is the means advocated by anarchists for exercising and enabling genuinely participative decision making in all domains of human life. Rejecting hierarchical organisation, we argue that both parliamentary “democracy” and totalitarianism have the same intensions – to maintain the distinction between leaders and led, rulers and ruled. Both, in the final analysis, are designed to ensure our passive acceptance of a system that oppresses us.

traduction de http://blog.jeveuxarreterdevoter.in...
Et ça continue, après quatre années de fausses promesses, de sourires forcés et de caresses des enfants, le triste spectacle de la démocratie, une démocratie dans laquelle quelques-uns ont le droit de faire et de défaire et de disposer de ce que les autres peuvent ou ne peuvent pas faire.

-> http://cnt-ait.info/article.php3?id...
L’objet de ce texte n’est pas de dresser une énième liste des méfaits des pouvoirs successifs de gauche ou de droite, mais plutôt la mise en lumière du bénéfice que peut tirer le capitalisme des alternances politiques.

-> L’abstention

Les abstentionnistes ne sont pas des abrutis dépourvus de sens critique. Les abstentionnistes ne sont pas des égoïstes qui se désintéressent de tout de qui ne se rapporte pas à leur petit horizon individuel. Les abstentionnistes sont ceux qui font du processus électoral l’analyse la plus juste. Considérer que voter ne sert à rien est tout simplement une évidence : mais c’est une évidence à laquelle on est d’autant plus sensible qu’on est plus écrasé par ce système et qu’on ne possède pas d’autre perspective que de végéter dans la misère ou de se faire exploiter à longueur de journée.

-> http://news.infoshop.org/article.ph...
A myth equal to the fable of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It is that John Kerry offersa world-view different from that of George W Bush. Watch this big lie grow as Kerry is crowned the Democratic candidate and the "anyone but Bush" movement becomes a liberal cause celebre.

-> http://cnt-ait.info/article.php3?id_article=924
We are calling for a national campaign to take advantage of this election year to emphasize the power of direct action and to present direct democracy as a viable alternative to representation. This campaign will include literature distribution, postering and stickering, demonstrations, educational events, and other forms of community outreach, both in our own communities and around the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. It will culminate in a nationwide day of direct action on November 2, election day.

-> http://news.infoshop.org/article.ph...

Karl Marx once wrote that history repeated itself, first time as tragedy, second time as farce. The left in Britain seem intent on proving him right. How else can we explain the attempts to create yet anothernew party to challenge New Labour at the polls?

It is like 1997 has been decreed as year zero for Marxists. The history of the labour movement is happily ignored while the SWP and assorted other sects repeat the tactics which worked so unsuccessfully in the past. Blair did not appear from nowhere. He is just the latest in a long line of Labour politicians who, upon gaining office in the capitalist state, promoted capitalist policies.

This is not surprising. The state is the instrument by which minority classes use to maintain their power and privileges. It can never used to destroy them. What is surprising is that Marxists seem to forget this, urging us to vote for radicals at election time and get outraged when they defend the interests of the few rather than the many.

-> http://struggle.ws/once/pd_chap9.ht...
Throughout history there has been an alternative idea of democracy - this is the idea of direct democracy. It surfaced during the Paris Commune (in 1871), it surfaced in Russia during the early part of the revolution there, and it was put into large-scale practice in Spain between 1936-37. It is the method often used by workers in a strike; it is the method that often arises 'spontaneously' when people confront the State or the bosses. Direct democracy is the democracy that anarchists advocate.

-> http://www.infoshop.org/againstclin...

With the Bill Clinton adiministration drawing to a close, it should be painfully obvious that Clinton, Al Gore, and the Democratic Party are no different than the Republicans. We find it amazing that many progressives have recently come to Gore's defense during his campaign. They aren't defending him from George Bush, rather the Nader campaign.

Your webmaster predicted back during the 1992 Presidential race that under a Clinton administration, human rights would be violated around the world, the police state would increase, censorship would increase, the pace that the environment is being ruined would remain the same, and that Bill Clinton is, above all else, a friend of capitalists and an enemy of labor.