My beloved Fellow Workers

Over the last weeks, as we slowly sink into the hole-I have been renewed. Last week, by a band of Wobblies from Reno who traveled down here to San Francisco to protest the War of Terror. Then by my Fellow Workers in France, who are placing their CEO's under worker arrest. Then by my Fellow Workers in the UK-where they are tearing shit up.

As the stories trickle across the ocean...some making their way through our propoganda filter-a marvelously universal principle is becoming apparent. We are rejecting this system as a whole. The once proud Middle-Classes have woken up in a world where their children are starving, where there is not enough heat to get through the winter and where for the first time, they cannot be certain that their offspring will have anything of life, let alone something better.

The general reaction here in the US to these changes is hard go gauge. Many in the "liberal" fold of course fulminate against radical action. "What are these punks accomplishing?" they ask. "Tearing banks apart is useless. These anti-capitalists are wearing capitalist clothing. How dare they be so hypocritical." I got two words for this train of thought-BULL SHIT. We are accomplishing plenty-we making the message perfectly clear-this system is useless, it is accomplishing nothing but the enslavement of the People-and the People are through with enslavement. This "left intelligentsia" that sits on its hands in judgment of those driven to action are nothing more than aiders and abetters to the enemy. In the same way that We who have spoken and acted against war and thievery, we were the enemy. We were accomplices to the terrorist plot. What then do you call apathetic hand wringers who simply bow to the whims and desires of the World Bank?

I hope every bank is torn down-much the same way we Americans did in the days before the Revolutionary War-when we were fighting the Central Bank of England. Now, two centuries later, we are beholden to all manner of central banking. The degree of extent tyranny today is far greater than that wielded by King George III. It will take a greatly augmented degree of action to drive it back-and to do away with it.

"The Take"

A couple years ago, Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein and a small film crew traveled to Argentina. They were there in the days after Argentina had declared bankruptcy; the factories were shutting down; unemployment skyrocketed. People routinely experience not months of unemployment, but years.

This documentary follows the occupation of the Forja San Martin, a forge and auto parts factory near Buenos Aires. They themselves are but one of hundreds of factories taken over by the workers, and turned into worker controlled co-operatives. Through out the film, as these workers are interviewed in their factories, we see and hear what true democracy could look like. "I don't know why accounting was so hard for the bosses" one garment worker says, "how to pay the bills, buy materials and pay wages. It's addition and subtraction. Maybe I am getting ahead of myself, but I think we could run the country this way".

The amazing thing about this revolution, is that it is not ideological. There is no grand van-guard leading this. There is no centralized philosophy. There is only common sense-which leads these people to the conclusion that they have no need of managers or executives. The amazing thing about "Marxism" is that it is really common sense. Marx was not the leader of some van-guard political party. He was an analyst of capitalism. His conclusions, that wealth stolen from the many to enrich the few, would leave the world, over time, destroyed-and the People arisen in revolution.

And here it is. No central authority...just the belief that we the Workers know what's up. That we ourselves have no need of the managers' bullshit nor the executive's priviledge. I don't believe they are getting ahead of themselves, I believe that is how we should lead the counry. Our courts, our Congress and legislatures, our executives-all as corrupt as corrupt can be. Perhaps a year or two from now, when we in the "First World" feel the boot of the IMF on our necks, when we too are now going on three years of unemployment, then we too may join the ranks of workers around the world, reclaiming it for ourselves.

Already in the US, a mass movement is under way. Lead for the most part by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, they are leading sit-ins in foreclosed homes. They are moving homeless people and families into abandoned homes, and are breathing new life into squatters' rights.

It is easy for us to feel no progress has been made here in America-but we have the most finely polished propogand machine and Politburo ever! If the corporate news showed us what we have accomplished and what we are doing, we would feel so empowered we'd take the world back overnight. Until then, let's continue supporting the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, the Industrial Workers of the World, and all our groups that are helping us organize our oncoming direct democracy.