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national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday April 11, 2002 11:54 by Workers Solidarity Movement - WSM wsm_ireland at yahoo dot com

Anarchist anti electoral politics meeting

As we get near to the general elections a discussion of the anarchist arguments against electoral politics and what sort of campaign we can mount during the elections.

The Teachers club, 36 Parnell Square, 8pm Monday April 15th

The general election looms and over the next few weeks we will be assailed with a barrage of promises and pledges from all of the political parties. Yet somehow it seems that these elections come and go, the promises are rolled out, the election passes and things go on the same as ever. So what is wrong with these elections? Anarchists are the only political movement which reject participation in elections completely, so come along to the meeting and hear the anarchist case against elections - why they don?t give people any power over their lives.

This meeting will also host the launch of the Workers Solidarity Movement?s anti-election campaign. Our campaign is based around the theme, ?don?t vote, get active?. And we plan to distrubute thousands of leaflets during the campaign arguing that the only real way to have a meaningful participation in the running of our society is to take the power back into your own hands and get active around the issues that affect you, instead of voting and waiting for a politician to sort it out. As part of our campaign we will be promoting several of the campaigns and movements that our memebers are involved in and which we support, including indydmedia, reclaim the streets, the bin charges campaign and residents against racism. We hope that other libertarians will be interested in working alongside us in this campaign, and that we will be able to construct a broad alliance to argue the case against the election.

So come along to the Teachers club on Monday and bring your ideas and suggestions as to how anarchists can make their presence felt in this campaign and get our message across. We are hoping that other anarchists will co-operate with us in this campaign and that if there are any other plans for opposition to the election campaign that we can join together and co-ordinate our activities for greater impact.

The Teachers club, 36 Parnell Square, 8pm Monday April 15th

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