Media Release
Monday October 18
Left activists propose sequel to S11
Global strike & blockade of stock exchanges on May 1
The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance, two organisations which
played a leading role in the S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum have
issued a call for a global strike against corporate tyranny on Tuesday May
1, 2001. They also propose mass, peaceful, blockades of stock exchanges in
the major cities of Australia.
"At S11, some 20,000 people showed that they are prepared to put themselves
on the line against the corporate globalisation", said Peter Boyle, a
national organiser for the DSP. "On May 1 we can do it again in
bigger numbers. "
"Seattle, Washington, Melbourne and Prague already have the global
corporate chiefs worried. But they ain't seen nothing yet. On May 1 this
new movement is going for a global mobilisation.
"The corporate chiefs might have coped OK with the Y2K bug but they may not
do so well with M1-2K01."
DSP and Resistance activists, who featured prominently among the youthful
agitators leading the blockades around Crown Casino, will be taking this
proposal to S11 alliance meetings in the coming weeks.
The DSP which has very close links with militant groups in Indonesia,
East Timor, South Korea, the Philippines, India and Pakistan has asked
left-wing groups around the world to join the call for a May 1 Global
Strike Against Corporate Tyranny.
For more information/interviews:
Peter Boyle 02-9690 1230 or 0412139968
Jorge Jorquera 03-9639 8622 or 0413 257 660
Anne O'Casey 03-9639 8622
After Seattle, Washington, Melbourne, Prague
M1 2K01
May 1: Global strike against corporate tyranny!
The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance call on the escalating
movement against the corporate globalisation the global people's movement
that showed its mighty strength at Seattle, Washington, Melbourne and
Prague to support the proposal for a Global Strike Against Corporate
Tyranny on May 1, 2001.
Neo-liberal capitalist globalisation is bringing unprecedented misery to
80% of the world's population just to enrich a tiny minority who are
already obscenely wealthy. It is also worsening an already catastrophic
global environment crisis.
But now global corporate greed is being challenged by a movement of global
solidarity.
The global corporate rulers are already frightened and arguing among
themselves about how to combat our growing people's movement. Some think
that changing the name of those instruments of death and misery for
millions, the IMF Structural Adjustment Programmes, to "Poverty Reduction
Strategies" is going to fool us into leaving the streets. Others are trying
to convince us that making the corporate barons even richer will mean that
some gains will trickle down to the poorest. But we will not be put off.
Sentiment is growing around the world, after the series of mobilisations
against the oppressive international financial institutions from Seattle
to Washington, to Melbourne, to Prague for continuing coordinated global
action. More and more people are seeing what the sources of the problems of
the majority of the world's people are, and are willing to do something
about it. The downtrodden of the Third World
have known the cause of their oppression for decades, as recently
demonstrated in Indonesia, Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia. Today more and
more people in the First World, especially the youth, are expressing
their solidarity with the majority of the world's oppressed.
We would like to see this international solidarity not just expressed in
a series of actions as the World Bank, IMF, WTO or WEF meets but in cities
around the world in a simultaneous demonstration of opposition to
exploitation and injustice.
Let's go on the offensive on May 1, 2001 with a truly global action against
global corporate tyranny. Let's walk out of our workplaces, campuses and
schools and converge on those temples of corporate greed, the stock
exchanges. Let M1 unite the massive power of the victims of corporate
tyranny in the First World and in the Third World!
Abolish the IMF, World Bank and the WTO!
Cancel the Third World debt!
Globalise resistance!
Expropriate the corporate robbers!
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