- A Prime Minister falls....almost...Long live ...er...? ---- A sleaze mired
self-serving mobster caught lying, is brought down in a comical palace coup byhis own. Cabinet vultures finally convinced that it was Johnson's carcass ortheirs turned treasonous in the pursuit of personal interest. Noble though thesacrifice will be dressed up as, the pretext is a little limp. Cancelled forperhaps the least (and most obvious) of their misdemeanours - failing to get awaywith it. ---- Following a zombie caretaker-ship, once honour and propriety aresatisfied, a new mask will replace the old and they can continue to delude uswith the spectacle of change whilst continuing their criminal enterprise asusual. As the French writer, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, observed in 1849 aftera parliamentary co-option of the values of defeated revolution: "The more thingschange, the more things stay the same."What has the government ever done for us? They tax us to fund subsidising thedividends of the rich through profit. They force down pay, keeping the price ofour wage exploitation as low as possible. They restrict our movement throughpassports abroad and prohibitive prices at home.They enthral us in debt through inflation and the usury of interest rates andtake food and heat from our mouths and homes to fund their expansionist wars.They watch us through intrusive surveillance. They bar us from effective dissentand criminalise us for resistance.Liberals will scoff and retort with examples like the NHS, schools and pensions.Desperate concessions granted under the duress of class struggle and clawed backby stealth. Oh, and the police on our streets, 'nuff said - leftist democracyneeds its repressive arm too to militarise production and 'nationalise' thefruits of our labour.The state is the evolution of a creation of the powerful, made rich through theirexpropriation of the resources and produce once held by all. A creation designedto pass laws legitimising that theft and enforcing it as justice. Government isits regional CEO becoming the local administrator and hard-cop of globalcapitalist interests, at best presenting as 'democracy', where all is claimedpossible except it's abolition.That the government and the state are perpetually at war with our class isbecoming increasingly evident in the current crisis, unmasking as itunambiguously takes the side of business and shareholders against the everincreasing number of workers waging or organising industrial action against theimposition of incremental or actual poverty.That the 'government in waiting' in the form of the loyal Labour opposition is nobetter is evidenced by their order not to support the strikers or join picketlines whilst going back on promises to repeal a generation of assaults on theright to organise.Seeing an unhappy Tory patriarch may always be a delight, but ultimately thedrama changes nothing. The cast in the Westminster bubble are taking second stageto the stars on the picket lines and streets where workers increasingly refuse todistinguish between who is trying to cajole them to give up their fight.Whoever they choose, or offers themselves next when an election comes, ultimatelychanges nothing except the regime's wardrobe. Meanwhile our class isdemonstrating a dynamic of its own. The new CEO may well find us smashing thefurniture of the whole rotten house by then! https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2022/07/07/the-lying-the-whips-and-the-wardrobe_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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