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I have been reading Richard Seymour's blog Lenin's tomb which Lou first introduced me to on this list. Seymour is compulsory reading imho for anyone trying to get a grasp of what is happening in London and the rest of Britain. Today I had a discussion with an old friend from the Civil Liberties Struggle here in Brisbane in the 1970s. He expressed the view that the incident with the Royal Car was a mistake and very counter productive. I have no way of known if that is correct or not from this distance. Initially I had been inclined to take a similar view in that it handed the State a propaganda weapon. But the situation is Britain is so serious that the danger for the ruling class is that such attacks on privilege may actually be normalised. At a certain stage in the struggle the people move ahead of the leaders. That may be what is happening now. Besides the initial outrage or shock is slowly making way for a host of stories about police violence. Added to this the sheer scale of the misery and suffering being inflicted on the people of Britain is quite staggering. It is not a good time to be caught swanning around in a Rolls Royce. It should be quite interesting to see how the Palace and the Government spin the coming Royal Wedding. My own particular interest is how all this is being viewed by the workers. Tall must see that one has to fight back against these cuts. They must also sense that unity with the students is the way to go. The problem is that the current crop of leaders of the working class also know this and will do all they can to keep the students and the workers apart. If the union bureaucracy fail and the workers form the necessary alliance, then it will be game on. the Royal Wedding may have to be moved to somewhere safe - like Brisbane or Toowomba maybe. comradely Gary ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
