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Millions of us won’t be able to afford food and bills this winter.

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.

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    If I make 28k

    if you make 28k you make 20k more than i do

    The middle class / working class divide is harmful and only serves to divide the working class anyway

    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

    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.

    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

    • blairbnb [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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.

        • blairbnb [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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.

          • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            What kind??

            the poor, dipshit

            I’m not the fucking enemy here.

            yes you are

            • blairbnb [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              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.