[quote author=ketchim link=topic=68772.msg429339#msg429339 date=1342730228]
Big Businesses mekkin money :
and dont Pay ...
A bankrupt Linden ...Bauxite price is crap :
Gats to Pay ....
Unfactingbelieveable .....7 people dead ! :

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big business is Big Crime...and Crime don't pay!
::rofl:: ::rofl:: ::rofl:: ::rofl:: ::rofl::
yes ketchim. from what I see that police action was ridiculous if that if dat is not wat deh set out to do from the start.
there are simply too many peaceful options that were avalable to starve out that protest and end it peacefully within a couple of days at most.
the demonstrators were not tactical at all, acted quite without sophistication..without full consideration of their long-standing experience as guyanese.
they ought to have known that the police would shot to kill..them... and they ought to have planned with that in mind.
a positive opposition must always strive to develop their case fully, into all its connections nationally, along with all intersecting interests.
if their case..the current issue with which that opposition is dealing.. is a national one, intersects the interest of the ordinary people of the nation, then the protection of the central group in that issue is best served by linking their protest to the national question, seeking and winning the support of all other groups to bring maximum pressure on the government.
the social structure is built on divide and rule. the opposition, if it is honest, for the people and for democracy, if it is sophisticated and unemotional, it would be focused on overcoming divide and rule in all its myriad applications, as a general principle of its organization and planning and practise..MOST PARTICULARLY IN AN ETHNICALLY DIVERSE REALITY.
that demonstration was silly from this vantage point based on what I have come to learn of it. it was a knee-jerk emotional response that could win nothing for the people of Linden..but what it in fact brought them..death and violence.
that is not the way to have gone. at the end of the struggle between the capitalist class and the interests of the ordinary folk, lies the end also of the ordinary class in this way: that the ordinary class in the process of struggle transforms itself into a class that can carry society forward
the struggle then is an instrument fundamentally of educating the ordinary people in the process of social organization, of how society works, of industry and economics, of the full ramifications of the stage global society has arrived at, and what the possibilities are for advanced, democratic social organisation of society as a whole.
this is not difficult at all in the crucible of social struggle. the ability of the people to learn as they go at extreme pace in struggle has been repeatedly proven over time to be high. and this is relative to all people..not just those of advanced industrial societies.
it is incumbent on the organisers, the leaders to commit themselves to real struggle, not sham, emotional popular outbursts for silly short term political gain that expose the people to death and destruction and long term sectarian losses. when they do that they play into the arms of divide and rule