| When you look at today's society, you will see one | | | | seemingly concrete trend of governments oppressing |
| grave statistic. And that is the statistic of the amount | | | | the people." What the workers must do is organize. |
| of people in poverty compared to the amount of | | | | They must work together and perform all matters and |
| people in luxury. We see people working eight to | | | | means of strike, boycott, and picket. As unionists, a |
| twelve hours a day, getting paid very poorly, given a | | | | group of people combined to express their interest as |
| very small allowance of what society produces, and | | | | a group, we will be able to stop the entire structure of |
| then on the other side, we see men and women | | | | Capitalism. To survive, all businesses need labor. |
| buying expensive drinks, clothes, houses, and cars. | | | | Without it, their factories will not get operated, their |
| They are wealthy capitalists, or they are corporate | | | | fields will not get farmed, their stores will not get |
| executives, or they are politicians. Their income allows | | | | stocked. If one business in an industry comes to a |
| them to practice excess and have little time laboring. | | | | quick hault, the entire economical chain becomes |
| Whatever labor they do, it is to aid companies and | | | | unbalanced. The master corporations of the economy |
| businesses in increasing the price of food, increasing | | | | start to lose money, and they sense themselves losing |
| the price of housing, increasing the price of goods, | | | | power, and willing to give in to any deal so that they |
| necessities, commodities, clothing, and services. It also | | | | can start making their wealth back. But, if a union is |
| aids these businesses in paying their workers less, in | | | | smart, and federates itself with other unions of the |
| laying off the least productive workers, in making the | | | | same industry, then an entire industry can go on strike. |
| work day of the average laborer more productive, but | | | | For however long, necessities like coal, food, clothing, or |
| also more stressful, more disappointing, and more | | | | oil will be completely rare. Society begs its masters to |
| overwhelming. In one word or two, we can describe | | | | give in to the demands of the unionists, as the masters |
| the activities of the wealthy class as exploitive; they all | | | | themselves suffer greatly. And the Capitalists quickly |
| seek, in one way or another, to make men labor and | | | | try to settle the matter; they strike an agreement with |
| create vast quantities of wealth for their economic | | | | their workers for higher wages, lower hours, and job |
| masters. This is the status of things, which every man | | | | security. Liberals in office increase the minimum wage |
| of intellect will accept, which every working person will | | | | by $.25, but unions gain $3.00 per hour in collective |
| sadlly confess to, as every person concerned in the | | | | bargaining agreements.As unionists, we are men and |
| processes of government, no matter what their class, | | | | women who are united together because we believe |
| will agree upon. These are the way things are. It's | | | | we are the common victim of this senseless social |
| extremely oppressive and without any sense of | | | | machine. We are citizens, students, thinkers, and |
| natural justice. The way things are has become the | | | | friends. We make up the community and are the ones |
| enemy of the working man, and we work everyday | | | | who are most concerned in alleviating the problems of |
| so that we can overthrow these oppressive, exploitive | | | | everyday social life. The power of decision-making |
| relationships in society.There is no doubt that the | | | | should not be in the hands of a few select who hold |
| economy operates on this principle of exploitation. Who | | | | no care or concern for the workers. The power of |
| will deny that there is a small sect of wealthy people | | | | decision-making should be in the hands of the people, in |
| who have massive control over all of the produced | | | | a completely democratic system where every person |
| wealth? Who will deny that most working class | | | | creates policy, as opposed to only the wealthiest |
| individuals are poor, without means to make | | | | creating policy. In supporting these ideals, as unionists, |
| themselves wealthy, without any direction in the | | | | we also support the activities of Anarchists. Those |
| economy except as a wage laborer? Who will deny | | | | stencilists, nighttime painters, these masters of graffiti |
| that the wealthy use their influence to bribe political | | | | and amateurs of the bomb, these pamphleteers and |
| leaders, or use their wealth to support the campaign of | | | | friends of the world. These are individuals who support |
| a political leader who will support their interests? Who | | | | libertarian organization, based on the idea of |
| will deny that the poverty of the working man drives | | | | cooperating to obtain a common end, in this case, in |
| him to crimine, to preying on his fellow man to ease his | | | | abolishing capitalism. They are the protestors, the |
| pains that were caused by this system; that is to say, | | | | picket line extras, the weekend pamphleteers, the |
| long work hours, low pay, and the misery of cruel | | | | squatters, the shoplifters, the inner city drummers. As |
| labor? These are arguments that no serious person | | | | an Anarchist and a worker, I feel I am obligated to |
| will ever doubt. These are not exaggerated | | | | organize fellow workers in mutual, cooperative efforts |
| statements. This is the situation of America it exists | | | | to increase our wages and our working conditions. So |
| now and as it will continue to exist until we do | | | | should every worker. It is only by working day to day, |
| something to change it. We, as Socialists, Communists, | | | | earning the trust of fellow workers, and then organizing |
| and Leftists, all seek to eliminate the Capitalist | | | | in a mutual, cooperative manner to obtain a better |
| system.The average person who looks at this, and | | | | state of society, a better organization of social |
| agrees with these words, one of the members of the | | | | relationships.Not only would this method of worker |
| common working class who identifies himself as a | | | | self-organization and cooperation help in obtaining the |
| Socialist and a Communist, when reading all of these | | | | interests of the working class, but it would prepare the |
| arguments, he is content with the ideas, supportive of | | | | worker for his new role in a better society, in a better |
| the measures, and a proponent of our initiatives. "The | | | | world. By working together as strikers, boycotters, and |
| means of production must become the collective | | | | picketers, we are forcing our oppressors to make |
| property of the public; there shall be no masters and | | | | concessions to us, we are forcing them to give in to |
| no slaves in our society!" But, he errs; he becomes a | | | | our demands and change the status quo. Above all, |
| Marxist. His solution to the problem has been to have a | | | | though, we are managing to obtain our ends without |
| revolution of the voting poll; a swing shift of voters | | | | resorting to violence. No doubt, we must support our |
| attempting to elect Socialist party candidates. "All we | | | | fellow comrades who use physical destruction without |
| have to do is make tyranny illegal," the nominated | | | | harming anyone, but we are all good and kind |
| Socialist declares to a toast at his party headquarters. | | | | individuals of a peaceful, cooperative, and non-violent |
| The working class soldiers rally to the call, but they | | | | culture. If we can achieve political change without |
| soon become unimpressed and lose faith in the | | | | arming ourselves, we feel that we have accomplished |
| process of elections and campaigning. So long as a | | | | an even more powerful goal. We showed the world |
| state exists, there will be great compromises between | | | | how we can achieve political and social change by |
| the working class desires and the interests of | | | | non-violent methods. The Bolsheviks achieved their |
| megacorporations and their billions of dollars of | | | | political power by military uprisings. They gained power |
| influence. So long as there is a state, there will always | | | | only through the gun and the soldier. Once they had |
| be a hierarchy, there will always be the dominating | | | | gained this power, the public wanted them out of |
| figure of authority threatening liberty, there will be unfair | | | | office. Lenin, the leader of this so-called Army of the |
| class divisions of the ruling over the ruled. In this regard, | | | | People's Republic, ignored the vote and seized power. |
| the government becomes our greatest enemy. And | | | | Those leaders, who wanted to get prosperity, equity, |
| by government, Anarchists mean all organizations that | | | | and liberty for their people, as social and economic |
| are based on authority and oppression, on control and | | | | units, those leaders were often apt to becoming |
| obedience. For all of these reasons, we have the | | | | corrupt, cruel tyrants. This is not always the case, but |
| understanding that Democratic control of the law is the | | | | there is certainly the possibility of it. For this reason, we |
| only just means of social organization. It is the only | | | | support social and political change from the position of |
| method where the liberty of the average citizen is | | | | Direct Action, by striking, boycotting, and picketing; the |
| guaranteed in a society based on equity and tolerance, | | | | real ends of cooperation in an economic sense for the |
| the precursors to a true freedom without leaders.What | | | | good of our working class. If we can change the |
| then, I am asked, is the way in which we go about | | | | system, then we are worthy of the title revolutionary, |
| securing this better future for ourselves? Every other | | | | but if we can change the system without bloodshed, |
| reform movement or social issue group in the past has | | | | then we are truly working class heroes.If we look at |
| worked towards legislation, lobbying, letter-writing. The | | | | the situation from every perspective, we will realize |
| Prohibitionists worked on getting anti-liquor candidates | | | | that the means of the strike is simply a method of civil |
| in to office. Many of the Civil Rights advocates lobbied | | | | disobedience. We are very much like those protestors |
| to get anti-discrimination laws passed. And, again, the | | | | who lock arms and disallow entrance to certain |
| Feminist movement has to thank the vocal women | | | | buildings, like those people who chain themselves to |
| who demanded the media not to glorify large-breasts | | | | the doors of certain buildings, like those who form road |
| or perfect body images. All of these movements in the | | | | blocks and march in streets and hold signs on the lawn |
| past have effectively changed the status quo of | | | | of the capital of the nation. These activities prevent |
| society from their voting. It was the legislative process | | | | them from building and gaining power effectively. If we, |
| of the system that allowed for their minority opinions to | | | | for example, were to have the entire paper industry on |
| become democratically important. I do not doubt the | | | | strike, then all of those offices, stores, and other |
| ability of the system to make some small changes, as | | | | businesses that rely on paper would also be unable to |
| insignificant bartering techniques with the working class, | | | | function. We would prevent taxes in the form of sales |
| but the government never made any changes until | | | | tax, income tax, or social security tax. People wouldn't |
| they had been created by the people. There was no | | | | be able to work or behave as they would in a normal |
| serious discussion about passing a Civil Rights bill in | | | | system of human relations. So, the great and |
| either the congress or the senate, until news studios | | | | abominable Capitalist class falls to its knees, agrees to |
| started to carry stories about police dogs ripping apart | | | | new contract and negotiation talks, and the strikers are |
| African American protestors who are demanding their | | | | allowed back at their jobs. The strike worked. The |
| liberty.The government itself has never taken on any | | | | union succeeded. It was all because of the strength of |
| of these great public works projects; it has never | | | | the workers, in their boldness of their character that |
| worked to improve the personality of mankind or | | | | lets them risk employment to achieve a better world, in |
| enhance the liberty of artists, poets, and inventors. The | | | | their loyalty to their fellow workers and their refusal to |
| government is, and always has been, the vanguard | | | | purchase products from oppressive corporations. By |
| soldier of the past, ancient traditions of our forefathers. | | | | these traits, the working class will only be able to soar |
| It has always been the enemy of whatever | | | | and create the type of society that at present we are |
| progressive policy brings to the table. Whether it's the | | | | only capable of dreaming of.With all of this theory |
| case for Civil Rights, the right for women to vote, the | | | | understood, with a common ground to stand with all |
| right of Homosexuals to be free of job discrimination, | | | | others that you call your friends and allies, there is the |
| or the right of the working man to receive a minimum | | | | question of title. What exactly is this movement of the |
| wage, it has always been opposed to by the | | | | working class? When many people look at the |
| government. The standing order of old power and | | | | working class, they are content to believe that they |
| wealthy rulers have always been the bitter and | | | | are looking at people with hard habits, with rusty |
| antagonistic enemies of these new changes. These | | | | culture, with malnourished humor. They feel that a hard |
| changes always have to be yanked out of the hands | | | | day's work and a quick instinct for alcohol will make a |
| of the establishment, they must be demanded with the | | | | man become thick minded and thick hearted. Those of |
| powerful screams of a unified population; rights were | | | | us who know that we are being ripped off by this |
| never allowed by the oppressor on to the oppressed. | | | | system of commodities and wage-slavery, we have |
| There was always struggle, always battles, always | | | | agreed upon some very uniform principles in our |
| social conflict. Once the popular movement of change | | | | revolution. We believe in a class unity, in a unity of all |
| and revolution has become accepted by its own direct | | | | working people, without prejudice of race or skin color |
| action does the ruling class take notice. Only when | | | | or nationality or religion, and I believe in the organization |
| there is serious pressure on them or they will lose their | | | | of these people in order to express the will of the |
| job will they ever act on behalf of the people. And | | | | general population. With our knowledge of authors, |
| while people are in the streets being beaten to death | | | | writers, and philosophers of the past, of Bakunin, |
| by police officers with clubs and batons, these | | | | Goldman, Malatesta, Proudhon, Godwin, and Paine, we |
| "representatives of the people" are enjoying the plush | | | | have decided to call ourselves Anarcho-Communists, |
| seat of power, doing what they can to smother the | | | | Anarchist Communists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, Unionists, |
| liberation movements.Martin Luther King Jr. never ran | | | | Direct Actionists, Libertarian Communists, or sometimes |
| for presidency. He never sought out any office of any | | | | just Anarchists. Life, |
| kind. His message was not a political one, but a social | | | | PunkerslutPunkerslut (or Andy Carloff) has been |
| one. He didn't drive his followers to the voting polls; he | | | | writing essays and poetry on social issues which have |
| drove them to the streets! "Make the people in this | | | | caught his attention for several years. His website |
| national community understand our pain! Make the | | | | provides a complete list of all of these writings. His life |
| content people in their homes recognize that there are | | | | experience includes homelessness, squating in New |
| these terrible tragedies being inflicted on minority | | | | Orleans and LA, dropping out of high school, getting |
| citizens! Be the change you seek in society!" The | | | | expelled from college for "subversive activities," and a |
| Communist or Socialist will tell you things will change by | | | | myriad of other revolutionary actions. |
| a new system of government, "one that breaks the | | | | |