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Class War issue 81: Hackney Heckler
(Issue 3, local newssheet, SAE from PO Box 38, 136 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2NS
As Hackney Council and its crises unfold, local opposition takes on new forms and formats. The Hackney Heckler takes on a newssheet role promoting local events and demonstrations (congratulations to the workers who burnt their new terms and conditions outside Hackney Town Hall), an expose role - look out for Council leader Jules Pipe riding round in a taxi at council expense - and an ability to grasp nettles.
Hackney's latest scandal, involving the rigging of council elections by certain Jewish politicians in Stamford Hill, has gone largely unreported in the national media and entirely unreported in the revolutionary media. The fear of the conservative left is that to comment on these issues in detail plays into the hands of the extreme right. The Hackney Heckler rightly points out that to sweep these issues under the carpet plays into the hands of the extreme right.
Since the rise of the anti-capitalist movement the most significant omission has been the failure to translate into reality the slogan "Think global, act local". Perhaps the Hackney Heckler is a first step down that road.
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