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Title: All Out N30
Author: Burn Shit
Date: November 30, 2011
Language: en
Topics: trade unions, Britain, strike
Source: Retrieved on 1st June 2021 from https://kpbsfs.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/all-out-n30/

Burn Shit

All Out N30

Good luck to the millions of strikers out tomorrow, but to hell with the

union bureaucrats and the labour aristocracy. Let’s make a bonfire of

membership cards and make this strike indefinite. Let’s occupy the

workplaces and form workers’ councils. Let’s demand more than just final

salary pension schemes; the abolition of alienated labour, the

dissolution of parliament and David Cameron’s head on a spike.

The Trade Union movement has always been about mediation, compromise and

representation. Token militant rhetoric to appease the rank-and-file,

from the arbiters between labour and capital whose conciliatory function

dampens the genuine radicalism of an alienated and disenchanted

workforce. Their field of vision has never extended beyond wages and

conditions.

British trade unionism, with its paid officials, reformist outlook,

hierarchical structures and it’s ongoing love-affair with the Labour

Party, cannot be a vehicle for genuine emancipation any more than

Brendan Barber can claim to represent the strikers on the picket lines

tomorrow. He and his ilk fantasise about a cosy relationship with a

social-democratic Labour government; with ‘beer and sandwiches at number

10′, awarding themselves six-figure salaries for organising and

disciplining their membership, channeling any desire for qualitative

change into just another wage dispute. Conservative government and

austerity gives them a useful opportunity to assume the role of the

radical, the defenders of the proletarian interest, the suited and

booted workers’ vanguard. They can now up the rhetoric and call a

symbolic 24-hour stoppage, play militant and enter into a mutually

beneficial tug-of-war with government, whereby the Bullingdon Club can

get tough on organised labour (in full view of the

Murdoch-Desmond-formerly-Rothermere press) and the union bureaucracy can

flex their muscles and show their members that they truly have their

best interests at heart, giving them a reminder of why they pay those

dues.

A strike needs to be wild, uncontrollable and unmediated. It shouldn’t

go through the proper channels or confine itself with due process,

legality or the pre-arranged 1-day time-frame dictated by whatever union

lackey. It should be accompanied by a healthy dose of rioting, sabotage,

occupations, street-parties, road-blocks and arson.

ALL OUT ON NOVEMBER 30TH.