It’s not rocket science to work out why things are kickin’ off here at the moment. Here’s our checklist of the real criminal activity.

It’s not a complete list so please feel free to add your items using the comments box below.

• Massive closures to Connexions Services and cuts to youth services.
• The destruction of funding to non-governmental organisations who provide support for young people.
• The institutionalised racism that’s led to stop and search and systematic harassment of young people in London for years.
• Police thuggery that’s meant the killing of 330 people in the last 13 years.
• Unemployment rates of 20% plus amongst young people in London.
• Cancellation of EMA.
• The consumerist society that teaches us that if we don’t have desirable things, we are failing.
• The forcing of people onto poverty wages and barely existent benefits.
• Advertising.
• The closures of youth centres in Harringey and across the country.
• A world which views violence – often through military action – as a solution to problems that occur.
• Corporations of stealing or looting by dodging taxes,
• The misinformation put out by police in trying to cover up their mistakes and blame others for those mistakes.
• The education policies that mean many people, tested at school time and again, to be labeled as failures before they reach their teenage years.
• Closure of hundreds of Sure Start centres.
• A world that puts profit before people.
• The ever-growing gap between rich and poor.
• The intrusive surveillance and monitoring of young people.
• The demonization of those who do not fit into David Cameron’s ideal of desirable citizens.
• The idea that a better pair of trainers will make you a better person.
• Bankers and bonuses.
• MP’s using tax payers money for their massive expense accounts
• The appalling and corrosive example set by MPs, the mainstream media and celebrities held up as role models.
• Reality TV programmes.
• Intolerance, engendered by authority, of immigrants, BAME communities, working class people and people differing from Tory ideas of normal.
• The lack of social housing and market rents forcing people to live in homes too small for the occupants.
• Selling off/looting our public to services for corporations to make profit.
• Closure of public libraries.

 

 

It’s not the crisis it’s the system

ANTI-CAPITALISTA!