Received anonymously via email:
“For immediate release:
Honourable Cabagge Flap Yvette Cooper is frothing at the mouth, trying to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation following an action at an RAF base where people sprayed red paint on two planes to symbolise the murderous complicity of the UK in the Middle East. The proscription would mean that anyone supporting, sharing, or being part of Pal Action could face imprisonment of up to 14 years.
Perhaps to cover Yvette’s money trail to Israel, she is pushing this motion to proscribe PalAction alongside two other neo nazi, ethno white nationalist groups that advocate and train members to commit violent attacks on people. She wants the public to shame any politician that will shy away from agreeing with the proscription because what is more terrorist than active neo nazi groups training people on how to make bombs? But she also wants to make the public feel that it isn’t a political move and that she is as much of a fence sitter as any western government is supposed to be. Make no mistake, this IS A POLITICAL MOVE. The act of banning protest groups that are having actual effect on the pockets of murderous enterprises is political, because the politics we have played at for decades are not about social issues or right and left or conservativism. The politics we have all been playing at are called capitalism, and when anyone threatens the pockets of those who hold most of the money, politics need to act in order to protect themselves.
This is eerily similar to the political moves made back in 2005. After an intensification of action against Europe’s largest animal testing laboratory by the SHAC campaign, the New Labour government (which Yvette Cooper was part of) introduced SOCPA 145 and 146, essentially making effective organising against vivisection enterprises illegal, where targeting any other industry with the exact same tactics and results would have been seen as a public nuisance.
I repeat, the attack on PalAction is an attack on all of us. This steps define how effective activism is treated by the government and sets precedent for any and all other campaigning with significant impact on murderous capitalist enterprises of whichever flavour of scum. You are next.
If we can learn anything out of this is that direct action is effective in dismantling the machine, that intensifying the fight is the only way of winning and that in order to achieve our goals we need to move away from the capitalist construct of legality and renounce the chains that governments shackle us with. Democracy has been rotten since its infancy, there is no antidote to stop its abuse, and we need to raise above it. The west is a trap of poisoned comfort where we accept surveillance and repression in exchange for Netflix subscriptions. It is time to reject the corporate overlords.
If this proposal is passed and PalAction is proscribed, who knows what folks involved will do. When The Weatherman started being targeted by the FBI they moved underground, found complicity with other movements and kept breaking people out of prison and attacking the institutions that upheld the war in Vietnam. Perhaps that is the new path of any western revolutionary.
Create your networks, create communities, build resilience and reject the trap of democratic capitalism. We are all Palestine Action.
Anarchy or death.
