"Through the Hydra's Heart
The fate of some 6 billion individuals is currently being decided by eight people, the leaders of the eight most powerful industrialized nations on the planet. Fighting for a seat at the table with them are business interests, hoping to turn global policy in favor of their profit margins. A seemingly dystopian scenario, this is the reality of the G8 meeting, occurring right now. Those who will be most directly affected by the decisions made at this meeting- farmers, workers, the unemployed, students, the third world and all people who’s lives are dictated by the rules of capital- have no access to these meetings and no control over the decisions that come out of them. Indeed, the governments of every country that has hosted the G8 have made certain of that.
The coming of the G8 has become synonymous with the suppression of all political dissent. From the blood on the walls and in the streets of protestors in Genoa to the current destruction of youth spaces, arrest of organizers and disruption of anti-G8 groups in Germany, those who stand up against it are given the harshest treatment by the law. Beyond preliminary efforts to disrupt all opposition, the coming of the G8 also signals further militarization of the police force. With full armor, chemical weapons, armored vehicles, specialized military divisions, snipers and more, the police prepare for the G8 as though preparing for war. And as this state of war against the victims of capital becomes normalized, those victims should become equally prepared.
The frontlines of this war, the social war, stretch beyond the decisions being made thousands of miles away by these eight leaders and the attacks on resistance efforts and murder of dissenters. In today’s ever expanding global market, they stretch into our city and into our every day lives. The economic policies set at the G8 have had a negative effect on workers throughout the world, even right here in Milwaukee. The policies of the G8 translate in to the outsourcing of jobs, privatization of social services, weakening of safety, wage and environmental protections and the destruction of the social fabric of communities from the inner cities to rural farmlands. Which brings us to the ultimate point of resistance to the G8- the social order that the meeting and the eight heads of state represent.
The G8 is merely one head of a larger and more insidious beast- capitalism. The effects it has on our communities and daily lives favor those who serve to maximize profit for an increasingly small number of extremely wealthy corporations and individuals. Opposition to the G8 meetings and what goes on at them must therefore mean opposition to capitalism as a whole. If we want to protect our communities and exercise greater control over our every day existence and not be subject to the demands of the bosses, demands against our best interests, we must strike at the heart, at the social order itself, and work towards a world free from the control of state and capital. We must demand more than just an end to the G8; we must struggle for an end to all decisions about our lives made without our control; we must struggle for a world free from all bosses and politicians!
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