Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Monday, September 5, 2011

Joint statement from Puerta del Sol and Syntagma


Finally! These people are coming to their senses and demanding socialism:








To this we say:

Withdraw the Memorandum. Get lost! We don’t want to be governed by the IMF and the Troika.

Nationalize the banks. With the rescue packages, the State has already paid more than their stock exchange value just so they can carry on speculating.

Make the accounting records transparent so the people know where the money has gone.

Radically redistribute wealth and change the tax policies so those who have the most pay: banking institutions, capital and the Church.

We demand people’s control over the economy and production.

Amen! The people in Spain and Egypt have united, at least to a degree, but why stop there. If the peoples of Tunisia, Egypt, Israel et al joined together in an international strike/demonstration/tentifada each would have a far greater chance of success. And many more would join in. It's happening in South Africa and China and elsewhere too, who knows...

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