The Queen has died after seventy years on the throne. As we have stated in
previous articles on the ACG website, the monarchy plays a key role maintainingthe status quo and as an adhesive in preserving the United Kingdom and theCommonwealth. The Queen and her family are there to maintain the sense ofnational unity that is essential to the continuance of the United Kingdom and theCommonwealth, and to obscure the glaring class divisions in British society. ----Her death comes at a time of great stress for British society. Her final act justbefore she died was to give her seal of approval to the incoming Trussgovernment, increasingly unpopular and determined to viciously attack the workingclass. She had overseen the transfer of power between 15 prime ministers duringher reign, and she has supervised these transitions with little strife, which inmany other countries would have led to public disorder. She has overseen thecollapse of the British Empire, and to act as head of the Commonwealth thatreplaced it. Don't forget that she was not just Queen of Britain, but of fourteenother countries including Canada and the Solomon Islands. That role is beingquestioned, as already with the decision by seven states in the Caribbean toremove her as head of State.Now Charles has become king. He is the oldest person ever to become the crownedhead and has little popularity. Despite the sycophancy and bootlicking from theestablishment and its media, where "We", as in "We all love the monarchy" is usedregularly to peddle the idea of One Nation, with no class or regional divisions,increasing numbers are opposed to the continuance of the monarchy. As we saidafter the death of Prince Phillip, the over the top coverage of his death markeda cranking up of an ideological war against any sign of rebellion or dissent.Witness the horror of the establishment at the toppling of statues in the summer'of 2020's Black Lives Matters protests. It responds with attempts to control theschool curriculum even tighter, by praising the "benefits" of the British Empire.Now the Establishment has prepared a pageant, Operation London Bridge, obviouslylong planned to celebrate and justify this parasitic institution, the monarchy.There will be sickening outpourings of grovelling praise for the Royals, ahankering for the past "glories" of Empire, and a cranking up of gimcrack patriotism.Despite the Queen's ability to disguise the privilege and wealth of the RoyalFamily, her children and grandchildren have done the opposite, notably with thescandals that Andrew has been involved in, with his connection to the paedophilebillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, with the openly public parading of privilege andwealth from the likes of Harry and Meghan, and with the dodgy fundraising ofCharles to his charities.The ruling class hopes that the unpopular Charles will act as a caretaker head ofState for a short period, before he hands over the throne to William. Indeed thismay well be Charles' and William's game plan, as they attempt to modernise andslim down the monarchy in order to keep it going.All of this, of course, comes at a time of unprecedented industrial unrest, withmany sections of the working class going out on strike or preparing to. It hasbeen a hot summer, and the autumn and winter bode being equally torrid in termsof industrial action.The Labour Party and the union leaders as the fire-fighters of socialconflagration have already come to the rescue of the ruling class. Both theCommunication Workers Union (CWU), which organises postal workers, and the Rail,Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, have called off strikes and the RMT leaderMick Lynch has stated that the ""RMT joins the whole nation in paying itsrespects to Queen Elizabeth."As for Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, he has confirmed and supportedthe role that Elizabeth played in promoting national unity and the obscuring ofclass differences, saying "as our great Elizabethan era comes to an end, we willhonour the late Queen's memory by keeping alive the values of public service sheembodied." As for the left of Labour, Jeremy Corbyn has stepped forward to praisethe Queen and her family.Equally, the leadership of Extinction Rebellion (XR) has postponed its longplanned Festival of Resistance. It has consistently emphasised the pressingurgency for immediate action over climate change. However when it came to thecrunch, it halted the actions planned for the week ahead during the 12 days ofOperation London Bridge. We know too that some local community action groups havesuspended activities during this engineered period of mourning.It is increasingly imperative that we in the working class develop our ownindependent organisations, free from the Labour and trade union leaders, if weare to wage a successful struggle against the increasingly aggressive boss class.The decision of the union leaders to call a truce in the industrial struggle,won't mean that the ruling class will reciprocate with a truce, as the attacks onus will escalate, with rising food and energy prices, rent increases, inflationeating away at wages, and the dismantling of the NHS.Abolish the monarchy!Break with Labour and the union bureaucrats!For social revolution and the creating of a new free and equal society!https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2022/09/10/working-class-unity-versus-national-unity/_________________________________________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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