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London Calling, May 2002
The Class War On Mayday
At this time of the year we remember our movement's dead and fight for the living. 4 innocent anarchists were hung in Chicago fighting for the 8 hour day in 1887, and May the first became International Workers Day the whole world over. The Mayday struggle has become an almost ritualistic time for the police and media to gather names and faces and generally spread lies about the movement. This year we've got a political show trial not unlike the one in Chicago in the 19th century. Victory to the Wombles! With the Post Office workers under threat this is also the time to show active solidarity and build an effective fightback on the industrial front. Victory to the wreckers - no casualisation!!
Class War 83
The new issue of the paper will be out (just!) in time for Mayday. Packed with all the usual bite and bile, as well as a round up of class struggle in your area over the past few months. To order your copy please send four 1st class stamps to the London CW address. For 10 copies please send a cheque for £5, made payable to "London Class War" only. Finally we have posters of the front cover - for 30 posters please send £1 in stamps to cover postage.
It's Good To Talk
Class War's web site now has a fully functioning discussion board, so where better to argue the toss about the issues of the day? Just go to www.classwaruk.org, click on discussion board and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Queen Mum - Good Riddance!
Hopefully your hangover has now subsided and the champagne stains have washed out of your trousers! Saturday March 30th finally saw the Queen Mum do the decent thing after a record 101 years of sponging off the British taxpayer, and what a party she started! Within hours of her death large numbers of Queen Mum: Good Riddance stickers were being displayed in pubs and clubs across the country. Despite a well concerted media blackout they continued to go up in towns and cities across the UK. Well done to all concerned!
A special mention must go out to residents of Wareham in not so sleepy Dorset. After sycophantic Mayor Doreen Cleaton opened a book of condolence to the old bag, within two hours it had been filled with appropriate responses! "Fuck you shitface" and various other swear words that we agree with entirely!
Police And Thieves?
According to recent press reports, Hackney now has more shootings than Soweto, once considered the most violent city on Earth. Odd then that the Metropolitan Police can spare large numbers of officers in the borough to take pictures of people going in and out of a social centre. Most evenins the Radical Dairy at 47 Kynaston Road, Stoke Newington is monitored by a team of uniformed officers, complete with cameraman. It has been raided twice. In a clear attempt to disrupt the centre's political activity its computer has been confiscated.
Local residents, who would be lucky to receive anything more than a crime number if mugged or burgled, have been appalled at both the scale and frequency of the police operation. All in all the Met have achieved only one thing in Kynaston Road - bringing local residents into the Dairy and into greater contact with those using it. It is probably as close to community policing as the Met are ever likely to get!
London Calling
Apologies for the non-appearance recently, this is due entirely to the editors' cocaine habits. We are pleased to say following an intensive course of therapy at the Priory - Naomi Campbell is really quite nice when you get to know her - London Calling will appear monthly for the rest of 2002. You can view it on our web site or secure your copy by sending 12 first class stamps for the year's supply to the usual address. Please send in suitable newspaper clippings, diary dates, gossip and slander preferably with a London focus.
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