Anarchist Federation | Resistance bulletin 99, January 2008 | AFED

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! - Looking forward after 2007's Iraq troop withdrawals, wildcat strikes & the back of Blair.
AIR MARSHALL ALARMED - Stuart Peach receives rough reception during invite to University of Sheffield.
ON THE FRONTLINE - Action promised after Karen Reissman appeal fails, Work-to-rule call after post union sellout.
SHORT FUSE - Corporate coffee's strange attraction.
DEFY-ID IN 2008 - Time to act against identity cards and databases.
WHAT WELFARE STATE? - Anger against the benefits bullies as the state targets long-term sick and disabled.
MEMORIAL FOR CARLOS - Rally in Southwark, London after neo-nazi killing of a Spanish anti-fascists.
ANTI-FASCIST NEWS - British National Party split is a gift, Barnsley's stall trashed.
CARTOON - Police strike is a joke.
BASTARDS OF THE YEAR - George Monbiot, UNISON's Dave Prentice & the two Blairs win our BOTY awards for 2007.
PRISONER SUPPORT - write to Cassidy Wheeler who is creating support projects from within his US prison walls.

The Anarchist Federation is an organisation of class struggle anarchists aiming to abolish capitalism and all oppression to create a free and equal society. This is Anarchist Communism. We see today’s society as being divided into two main opposing classes: the ruling class which controls all the power and wealth, and the working class which the rulers exploit to maintain this. By racism, sexism and other forms of oppression, as well as war and environmental destruction the rulers weaken and divide us. Only the direct action of working class people can defeat these attacks and ultimately overthrow capitalism.

As the capitalist system rules the whole world, its destruction must be complete and world wide. We reject attempts to reform it, such as working through parliament and national liberation movements, as they fail to challenge capitalism itself. Unions also work as a part of the capitalist system, so although workers struggle within them they will be unable to bring about capitalism’s destruction unless they go beyond these limits.

Organisation is vital if we’re to beat the bosses, so we work for a united anarchist movement and are affiliated to the International of Anarchist Federations. The Anarchist Federation has members across Britain and Ireland fighting for the kind of world outlined above.

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