"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"
(Leonard Cohen)
"Ignore all proffered rules and create your own, suitable for what you want to say"
(Michael Moorcock)
"Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."
(Andre Gide)

"I want my place, my own place, my true place in the world, my proper sphere, my thing which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have vainly sought all my life-time."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
(Franz Kafka)
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated"
(John Donne)
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
(Robert J. Hanlon)
"Life is beautiful, but the world is hell"
(Harold Pinter)

Thursday, May 05, 2011

A Day Of Absolute Monarchy And Criminalising Republicanism


EXTRACT: What is clear, and disturbing, is that the official reaction to even the mildest form of republican sentiment or dissent has been to try to silence or effectively criminalise it - an unfortunately all too easy task for the authorities, given the panoply of draconian and anti-democratic laws at its disposal. So can you imagine how they would react when confronted by a mass, working class-led republican movement? Another worrying development was the simultaneous purge of dozens of anti-cuts and socialist groups by Facebook bosses - doubtlessly seeing the distraction of the royal wedding as their opportunity. Those groups axed without warning include UK Uncut, Save NHS, Arts Against Cuts, Goldsmiths Fight Back, Socialist Unity, Central London SWP, SWP Cork, Ecosocialists Unite, York Anarchists, etc. Bedtime for free speech and democracy.
In other words, who can disagree that the royal wedding has certainly been a chance to show-case Britain at its most traditional best - obscenely privileged, corrupt, authoritarian and anti-democratic? Not to mention utterly ridiculous. Yes, good, old-fashioned royalist values - at permanent war with the forces of the new republican Britain that we communists want to usher in by winning the battle for democracy. Far from being “reluctant”, communists are unabashedly proud and militant republicans - as an intrinsic part of our fight for extreme democracy across all of society.
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