A simple one issue campaign to get people to protest the excessive price gouging of the energy cartels by mass refusal to pay.
Its a simple thing that many people will agree with regardless of political identity and can only serve to highlight the power of direct action and coordination of the masses that many people will never have experienced.
I've signed up to organise and ordered a bunch of leaflets, gonna leaflet my local area for sure.
This doesn't work if you are on a prepayment meter
Like the majority of the working class
Ok, this is clearly just middle class lanyard wankery
Leftists normally: There is no middle class only proletariat and borgouise
Leftists when asked to consider the possibility of actually doing something: Ok, this is clearly just middle class lanyard wankery
i'm on a prepayment meter you fucking dipshit
you know, like everyone who's actually poor
also fuck you, i'm an active organiser who actually does meaningful things for my community you worthless fucking liberal
Seems needlessly antagonistic, like surely you can see the value in this?
Yes people on prepaid meters are getting screwed regardless but if enough people put pressure on the energy companies via something like this it helps everyone?
Not sure how this is possibly a net negative.
sure, you play at revolution by not paying the energy companies
we'll continue doing the actual work
also fuck you for the "needlessly antagonistic" shit, you directly stated that I, an actual working class organiser, was not doing anything because i didn't jump on your middle class wank protest that achieves fucking nothing for the poor
Yeah I guess my first reply was a bit flippant, but I don't know you, I don't know anything about you. I'm sure whatever you're doing is better and more important so keep doing that.
I'm just not sure how instantly decrying this as pointless and middle class is helpful in any way.
The middle class / working class divide is harmful and only serves to divide the working class anyway, we are all proletariat. Why are you buying into that? If I make 28k am I your class enemy?? I don't think so.
A coordinated payment strike can only help to put pressure on the energy companies and also illustrate the power of collective action to people who might have never experienced that.
I never said this was revolution but instantly brushing it aside seems wildly counterproductive.
if you make 28k you make 20k more than i do
this is something espoused purely by people of the middle class, who have the privilege of not being conscious of the actual material divide between the poor and the middle class
this will only be done by the middle class, which will be ultimately meaningless, because the poor HAVE to pay, or they will immediately be cut off from electricity and gas by the automated system. the pressure will be short lived, because the middle class are fundamentally incapable of solidarity with the poor, if push comes to shove, they can just move to a marginally less vicious country and escape the reactionary pushback
To the billionaire ruling class we are are the same ants on the pavement, 8k 28k or 38k. Our class interests are identical. If there cannot be solidarity between us then we have no chance.
oh piss off you middle class fuck
you will never give a fuck about my kind
What kind??
Whatever, look im gonna just hand out the leaflets around my mostly council house neighbourhood and if its a waste of time then whatever. And when other and better opportunities to do things come up i'll take those too. I'm not the fucking enemy here.
the poor, dipshit
yes you are
https://twitter.com/magmogz135/status/1553669023614787584?t=18yzhXz2RM1mter9GDwEpQ&s=19
This is the correct response not whatever the fuck you were on about.
And fwiw I grew up poor af with a prepaid meter that regularly ran out bcos my mum couldn't afford it. Now in my mid 30s I have managed to scrape together a thin layer of insulation between me and the capitalist death machine it doesn't suddenly make me a different class of person.
Also I am under no illusions that this thin layer isn't shrinking rapidly, which is why campaigns like this are important.