Translated "Avante!" article by Jorge Cadima, member of the International Department
The British prime-minister has no doubts. The rebellions which took place in the British towns’ streets are but “criminality”. They are the result of a “moral collapse” and: “Irresponsibility. Egoism. Behaviors’ which ignore the consequences of their own acts.
[…] Rewordings, in exchange of no effort. Unpunished crime. Rights with no responsibilities.”(in CNN, 15.08.11). Someone should offer David Cameron a mirror.
His profile fits as a glove regarding his country’s criminal, deceitful and corrupt leader class, which during the last years became rich in an obscene manner, through market and financial false tricks, war, state bonus, fiscal immunities, privatizations and public wealth plunder, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire systematic lie. And currently considers the British people must pay the invoice of its outrages.
Surely the destruction of shops and houses, throughout the British towns is condemnable. But who cheered the incomparably worse destruction in Tripoli, Bagdad or Belgrade? Violence on innocent citizens, on British streets is condemnable. But , on the 8th August , NATO planes killed 85 civilians in the village of Majar, 150 km from Tripoli: 33 children, 32 women and 20 men (in Globe and Mail, 9.08.11). Gang violence is unacceptable. But who handed over towns, territories and redoubts to the UÇK nark-dealers and murderers, Afghani mudjadines’or Bengasi “rebels“, turning them into “governments”, in order to practice their dealings and crimes?
And what is told in the media, is the real truth? The British State holds a very extensive history of violence and false statements. The years of rebellion in Northern Ireland ( along with scandalous cases, such as the Birmingham Six or the Guilford Four). And so it is in our days. Since 1998, 333 people have died under police detention, not having any guard been condemned (in The Guardian, 10.12.03). In 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, a young Brazilian, was murdered in cold blood, following a police persecution, and after being mistaken for “an Arab”. At the time, the police lied. During the incident, which unleashed the disturbance, after the police having initially stated that the young Duggan had died during a cross-fire with the police, the investigation confirmed that only one guard had shot. (in The Guardian, 11.08.09). Witnesses state that Duggan was assassinated in cold blood, after being immobilized by the police. The London Metropolitan Police in Chief stood down a few weeks ago, following a scandal which revealed an assignable high grade corruption within Her Majesty’s media - police-government triangle. Curiously, the so-called trio, currently appears in the counter-offensive policy, sorting out moral and very hard threats of police and social repression sermons directed to the British society poorest sectors.
The journalist who unleashed the scandal appears dead, as what happened to David Kelly, who denounced to the press, in 2003, the Blair government lies on the war of Iraq. Therefore, no suspicions.
Within the United Kingdom, as well as in the whole capitalist world, the crisis’ years were plentiful for the wealthy. According to the list elaborated by the Sunday Times, during the last year the rich had their fortunes increased 20% (In The Telegraph, 11.05.07). If the current tendency is to be maintained, the gap of returns will be, in 2030, only but comparable to the Queen Victoria’s Age. (in The Guardian, 11.05.16).
There, as well as here, private profits are sustained by public debts and a fierce attack to the workers’ life conditions. For a good part of the British young workers, the system only but offers as a solution, to fight (and die) in wars or in gangs.
Ironically, not even a career within the police force is currently possible, as the conservative-liberal government cuttings imply the disappearance of 34 thousand posts within the police in the next four years (in The Guardian, 11.07.21).
The British explosion is one more signal that the capitalist system of our days is in a deep crisis. It was almost symbolic to observe the rebellions on the streets following the stock exchange and the markets disturbance. The British leader class talks insistently in repression and iron-hands. Capitalism has nothing more to offer but poverty, war and violence.