Strikes

The only strikes which I have encountered were reactionary strikes during the last highpoint of European fascism in the early eighties. I took part in a one-man stoppage of work to recover and attendance allowance at a workshop where I was under duress to perform unpaid labour in 1995. They begged me to come back and restored my allowance and paid me my allowance for time when I withdrew my labour.

Today,once again,strikes are breaking out and amongst those are reactionary strikes.

What is a reactionary strike?

A strike is reactionary if it flies in the face of social justice and breaking down barriers to the advance of organised labour. Many in the extremist socialist groups fail to see that reducing differentials is a morally healthy social cause and that the drive by privileged classes to accumulate ever more must be resisted. We call extremists petite bourgeois socialists because they hope to come in on the coat-tails of big players to gain unfair advantage for themselves. Amongst the petite bourgeois socialists,we count civil servants and nurses.

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Mo sceal fein

A policeman will always break a strike regardless of where his papier-mache loyalties lie as will a blackleg loyalist from Glasgow or Liverpool. A policeman to cover his ass will always in a social setting try to inveigle himself into a position of teacher's favourite as providing "emergency cover"....

...it takes an astute mind to discern that a policeman is "a bastard,and a bad bastard at that, someone only interested in money because he has two salaries...."

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The police 'worker' and the petite bourgeois socialists 

In Northern Ireland, we are about to put these goslings to flight. Behind their displays of show,they are empty vessels whose necessity is preached by only a few people such as Gerry Kelly and Colm Gildernew,all ageing hooligans.

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The real problem of our age is youth unemployment and deindustrialization and asset stripping,the export of industries and lumpenisation of the working class.

Tens of millions are being ground down by the inexorable rise of The Yellow Man and the loss of secure employment.

The rise of China is part of the inexorable expansion of capital to ever further destinations and ever more inhospitable climes. The loss of secure employment is the domestic feature of capitalist immiserisation which is ignored by well-wishers and idle hands in the media and at the top of the Labour Party. That is not to say that extremism represents a credible alternative. It does not. Socialism is the answer,the only proper and the most wholesome solution. We must avoid recourse to terror and ignore those claiming to be revolutionary socialists and Communists. As often as not,they are on the payroll of the police and foreign governments and the latter are interested solely in the suppression of all forms of workers self activity and rolling back social emancipation.