#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) France, UCL AL #331 - International, United Kingdom: Lizzie's in a box, and now, let's abolish the monarchy (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The death of Queen Elizabeth II after seventy years of reign in an explosive

social context marked by record inflation and a powerful wave of strikes had the
effect of paralyzing social movements. We publish the analysis of a British
libertarian communist organization ---- The monarchy plays a key role in
maintaining the status quo. The Queen and her family are there to maintain the
sense of national unity that is essential to the continued existence of the
United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, and to mask the glaring class divisions in
British society. ---- His death comes at a time of great stress for British
society. His last act, just before his death, was to endorse the new government
of Liz Truss, which was increasingly unpopular and determined to violently attack
the working class. She oversaw the transfer of power between 15 prime ministers
during her reign and managed those transitions with little friction, which in
many other countries would have led to unrest.

She oversaw the collapse of the British Empire, and headed the Commonwealth that
replaced it. She was not only queen of Great Britain, but also of fourteen other
countries, including Canada and the Solomon Islands. That role is in question, as
the decision of seven Caribbean states to remove her as head of state has already
done.

Imperial nostalgia
Today, Charles has become king. He is the oldest person in history to become the
crowned head and his popularity is low. Despite the sycophancy and bootlicking of
the establishment and its media, where the "we", as in "we all love the monarchy"
is regularly used to peddle the idea of one nation, without class divisions or
region, a growing number of people oppose the maintenance of the monarchy.

As we said after the death of Prince Phillip, the excessive media coverage of his
passing marked the intensification of an ideological war against any sign of
rebellion or dissent.

Witness the horror of the established order at the toppling of statues during the
summer of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. It reacts by attempting to control
the school curriculum even more tightly, touting the "benefits" of the Empire
British. Now the establishment has prepared a spectacle, the long-planned
Operation London Bridge, to celebrate and justify this parasitic institution, the
monarchy, with sickening floods of praise for the royal family, a nostalgia for
the " past glories of the Empire and a rise of shoddy patriotism.

Despite the Queen's ability to conceal the privileges and wealth of the royal
family, her children and grandchildren have done the opposite, especially with
the scandals in which Prince Andrew has been involved, due to his links with the
billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, with the public display of Harry and
Meghan's privilege and wealth, and with Charles' dubious fundraising for his
charities.

The ruling class hopes that the unpopular Charles will act as interim head of
state for a short time, before handing over the throne to William. Indeed, this
may well be Charles and William's game plan as they attempt to modernize and slim
down the monarchy in order to keep it alive.

All of this, of course, comes at a time of unprecedented social unrest, with many
sectors of the working class going on strike or preparing to do so. The summer
has been hot, and the fall and winter are shaping up to be just as scorching in
terms of struggles.

National mourning, social truce
Labor and union leaders, as firefighters of social conflict, have already come to
the rescue of the ruling class. The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which
groups postal workers, and the Rail, Marine and Transport Union (RMT) have both
called off the strikes and RMT leader Mick Lynch said that the "RMT joins the
whole nation in paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth".

As for Keir Starmer, leader of the Labor party, he confirmed and supported the
role that Elizabeth played in promoting national unity and the occultation of
class antagonisms, declaring: "as our great Elizabethan era touches at its end,
we will honor the memory of the late Queen by keeping alive the values of public
service that she embodied. As for the Labor left, Jeremy Corbyn praised the Queen
and her family.

Likewise, the management of Extinction Rebellion (XR) has postponed its
long-planned Festival of Resistance. She has always insisted on the urgency of
immediate action against climate change. However, when the time was right, she
halted the actions planned for the coming week during the twelve-day London
Bridge operation.

We also know that some local community action groups have suspended their
activities during this time of mourning.

It is increasingly imperative that we in the working class develop our own
independent organizations, free from union and labor leaders, if we are to wage
an effective struggle against the increasingly aggressive corporate class.

The union leaders' decision to call a truce in the struggle does not mean the
ruling class will reciprocate, as the attacks on us will intensify, with food and
oil prices rising. energy, rent increases, wage-eating inflation, and the
dismantling of the public health care system. Abolish the monarchy !

Break with labor and union bureaucrats ! For a social revolution and the creation
of a new free and egalitarian society !

Anarchist Communist Group (Great Britain) on 09/10/2022

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