MAKE RED SEPETEMBER A MONTH TO REMEMBER A manifesto for revolutionary change http://www.workerspower.com/wpglobal/redseptember.html As the anti-capitalist mobilisations in Melbourne and Prague approach the LRCI has issued the manifesto RED SEPTEMBER - a statement of global anti-capitalist strategy and a call for a new revolutionary workers' international. The Manifesto was drawn up at an international congress of delegates from the LRCI's (League for a Revolutionary Communist International) sections across the globe... _________________________________ On 11 September the World Economic Forum meets in Melbourne; on 26 September many of the same chief executives of the world's biggest corporations, G8 finance ministers, the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank will reassemble to complete a survey of their global empire. Their task is to identify the remaining barriers to the domination of global corporations. Whether they be health and safety regulations in America, welfare entitlements in Europe or environmental standards in Asia they are targeted for destruction. With one click of the keyboard the global capitalists shift billions of dollars from one currency to another; they close and relocate factories at a moment's notice. They devastate communities, destroy millions of lives, ruin the health and blight the education of millions of people. The sheer economic might of the global corporations enables them to make elected presidents and prime ministers scuttle to do their bidding. They can block legislation hostile to their interests, force governments to reduce health care and lower standards of labour protection. They use their teams of top lawyers and their judges to threaten with ruin trade unions or human rights groups which stand up to them. In many countries - whose natural resources they plunder wholesale - such activists are assassinated or tortured by special high-tech paramilitary units trained by Washington, London or Paris and paid for by the multinationals. It does not need to be like this. There is an alternative. But how do we change this system? What do we replace it with? Tens of thousands of self sacrificing workers for "non-governmental organisations" (NGOs) can scarcely touch the surface of the problem of world poverty. ...to read on go to http://www.workerspower.com/wpglobal/redseptember.html -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
