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is a political organisation aiming to build workplace and community democracy through direct action and struggling with all those fighting for change.
We stand for the power of workers and local people against the bosses and politicians in order to bring about radical social change, to build a society based on freedom, democracy and cooperation.
A natural disaster has descended upon Haiti whose scope we only are seeing the surface of at this time. The Haitian people will be struggling to rebuild their lives and their home possibly for decades in light of unprecedented collapse, both physical and social. Yet despite the unpredictability of earthquakes, this disaster is unnatural, a monstrosity of our time. The extent of the damage of the earthquake is part of the cost of unrestrained exploitation which at every step put profit above the health, safety, and well being of the Haitian people. While the world watches on ready to help, power is being dealt an opportunity. The Haitian workers and peasants have been fighting for their rights to even the most basic level of existence for decades, while the UN-occupying force, the state, and the ruling elites maintain the social misery without relenting. Now as Port-Au-Prince is in rubble, new opportunities arise for rulers to rebuild Haiti in their own interests, and likewise for the Haitian workers and peasants to assert their right to their own Haiti, one where they will be not be forced to live in dangerous buildings, and work merely to fill the pockets of elites, foreign or domestic.
Benefit party for LCAP, london's premier direct action class struggle campaign, from their friends and supporters in the underground dance scene. 2 rooms playing: Dubstep, DnB, Jungle, Bastard Pop, Punk, Ska, Wonk and Techno!
Massive sound system provided by Underkonstruktion, RedEye and Flipside
Saturday November 21st 9pm-6am! Private central London location (call partyline on the night 0797 558 1469)
It is time to demonstrate to Trotskyists, Leninists, and the partyist anarchists and ultra-left organisations that we need industrial unionism, now, more than ever before. The crash of 2008 has set us on a defensive footing that will take a generation of fighting to see us come out with our organisations intact. But as we take on those fights it must be with a view that we are building something far stronger, and far more revolutionary in its place.
[This is a discussion piece to add to the recent flurry of debate around antifascism, notably “Give Up Antifascism” in Red Pepper, which will get a full response at some point. L&S members have been active antifascists, and some of them have written the following to add to the debate. This is not the view of L&S as a whole and does not constitute policy in any way. It may be the start of a discussion that leads to a policy.]
The week-old ‘Community Squatting Project’ had its first brush with the law on Wednesday 11th November but successfully defended its’ premises. Police arrived with council-hired security in the late afternoon demanding entry, but the doors were bolted. They gained access to the second floor of the block, which is currently unoccupied, but were prevented from taking the stairs by a barricade.
