About me: In capitalism, a tiny minority own and control the economy. They run it, not to meet the needs of people or to maintain the environment, but to maximise their profits. The drive for bigger and bigger profits is the direct cause of the widening gulf between the rich and the poor. A majority of the world’s people live in dire poverty, while a tiny minority squander unprecedented wealth.
War is capitalism with its gloves off, the logical result of a system driven by competition for control over resources and markets. It was not the madness of President George W. Bush that fuelled the war on Iraq, but US capitalists’ desperate drive to control the world’s oil.
Democracy under this system remains a charade. Where is the democracy when our government wages a war against the wishes of the majority of the people? When "regime change" and "liberation" mean bombing thousands of people and shooting peaceful demonstrators? Under capitalism, "democracy" at most means voting every three years or so for one or the other of the parties funded by corporations.
Using racism, nationalism, sexism and homophobia, the capitalist system aims to divide us. Resistance is about uniting people in mass action against our common enemy, capitalism. Resistance fights for socialism, a society based on real democracy. Under socialism, the means of producing wealth will be owned and controlled by the majority. The economy will be run democratically, according to the needs of people as they decide them, not by corporations’ profit margins.
Don’t miss the Latin American & Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum
Students, social movement activists, academics, trade unionists, progressive political parties and all interested members of the community are invited to the Latin American & Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum - ....Fighting and organising globally against neoliberalism’’ - to be held in Melbourne on October 11-14, 2007.
This public, international forum – jointly organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network, the Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, the Latin American Solidarity Network, the Bolivarian Circle and Australia Asia Worker Links - is a timely response to the growing crisis of legitimacy for neo-liberal governments worldwide and the rise of movements of resistance to imperialist war, exploitation and injustice.
The four-day forum will offer many opportunities to exchange information and ideas about a wide range of issues in Australian and world politics, and will be attended by representatives of grassroots movements and parties in Aotearoa/NZ, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Timor Leste, Venezuela and West Papua.
The major forum themes include campaigning and organising strategies, ecological sustainability, Indigenous peoples’ struggles, histories of movements of resistance, anti-capitalist theory and practice, alternatives to neo-liberalism, workers’ rights and the global labour movement and cultural action. By facilitating a sharing of ideas and experiences between Australian, Latin American and Asia-Pacific social movements, political organisations and individual activists, the forum aims to strengthen international coordination and solidarity with those fighting neo-liberalism.
to register for it visit or call us at the resistance centre 96901977 www.solidarityforum2007.org, email info@solidarityforum2007.org,
Are you guys gonna protest the fact that the monks in Burma who are protesting for democracy are being shot dead on the orders of the government??? Or is it only wrong when America, or one of her allies does something?
comrads thanks you for excpting our friendship we are a new center and i would just like to say that i think the apec protest was a sucses and we should do more protests like apec to get our message across
