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71 lines
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Fight The Power!
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Party Hard!
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The Criminal Justice Act is bad news. That's clear. The government
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wants to make the rest of society as
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boring as they are! It attacks our freedom to
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party and protest. There's only one thing left for us to do. Kill
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this act by partying and protesting! Its up
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to us, no one else will do it for us.
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While claiming the C.J.A. is to protect us, its
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clear that all it does is protect rich landowners, bosses and the
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state against the few "civil liberties" remaining for
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us. Most of the Act is concerned with criminalising all
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direct action and unauthorised demonstrations, particularly
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against pickets, hunt sabs and road protesters -
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even hillwalkers. Its main aim is to give the police
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even more power - the right to stop and search anyone,
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an end to the right of silence, the introduction
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of plea bargaining, exclusion zones, "aggravated trespass"
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and paranoid "anti-terrorist" laws. The only
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freedom it protects is the freedom of power to do
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exactly what it wants....
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We must recognise the C.J.A. for what it is, a piece
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of class based legislation for and by the rich and
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powerful. It was never just about targeting squatters,
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hunts sabs and ravers. It's a direct attack on all
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working class people. Liberal protest ain't going
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to work. Only direct action gets the goods. Why
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else is the C.J.A. trying to ban it?
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Remember this is just the latest in a long series
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of attacks on our class. We need to link up all our
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struggles and fight to win. By fighting isolated
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struggles we can be picked off one by one. But by
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uniting together we can win. Just look at the Poll Tax.
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Our fight so far has some great features in it. Unofficial
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mass demos where we took over the streets and
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made them ours. D.I.Y. gigs, raves and parties which
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have raised lots of money and awareness for the fight
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as well as providing many a good night. Excellent
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pickets and solidarity marches. Over the country a
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network of mutual aid and support is spreading, a
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network of angry people who know how to party!
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We must organise and make all this stronger. By
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doing this we can make this act unworkable. By mass
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defiance, direct action and solidarity we can win.
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So let's party and protest. We don't need boring speeches
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to tell us what's wrong or what to do. Its OUR
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lives, OUR liberties. We need to organise ourselves
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to take the power back. No one else is going to do it.
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No one else can. The only parties we need are the ones with
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loud music. The ones we organise ourselves. The ones
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that play OUR tunes.
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Let us experience the freedom of protest and party hard
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until the C.J.A. lies along side the Poll Tax in the
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dustbin of history.
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"If I can't dance then its not my revolution"
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Emma Goldman, anarchist.
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