16th March– From Tunisia,
to Egypt, to Libya and across
the Middle East; from Germany,
to Ireland, and over the Atlantic
to numerous state capitols
across the U.S., a mass political
strike is presently erupting
around the globe, shaking
or toppling governments
as it goes. There are no "local
causes" for this global upheaval.
Rather, the growing demonstrations
and even revolutions
all reflect a determined commitment
by citizens worldwide:
"We are not going to
take it anymore!" That when
pushed to the limit by soaring
prices for food and other necessities
(and increasingly, even
the disappearance of food itself),
by mass layoffs, by mass
home foreclosures, and by ever-
harsher austerity measures
of all sorts enforced by governments
which are either groveling
before IMF/World Bank
"conditionalities" or which,
in the "advanced sector" are
pouring trillions upon trillions
of taxpayer dollars into bailing
out usurious, speculative banks
while relentlessly slashing vital
services, human beings will
assert their dignity, and their
right to a future—even at the
cost of their lives.
In his A Defence of Poetry,
the great poet Percy Bysshe
Shelley explained the nature
of such unique moments,
when great masses of seemingly
quiescent human beings are
lifted by a power which they
themselves do not really understand,
when they suddenly
become capable of "communicating
and receiving intense
and impassioned conceptions
respecting man and nature",
and of the most dramatic
actions. Such moments unleash
profound changes in the
course of history, either for the
better as in the American Revolution
upon which Shelley
was reflecting, and in the birth
of our own pro-American, anti-
British "old Labor" Party in
the mass strike wave here in the
1890s, or, frequently enough,
for the worse when the people
have no adequate leadership
nor a practical vision of how
to shake off the tyranny and to
reconstruct their nations, as in
the bloody French Revolution
of 1789 and ensuing decade of
the Napoleonic Wars.
The present worldwide mass
strike is responding to a single
cause: the brutal tyranny of the
British Empire, an empire not
so much of 19th Century-style
redcoats and gunboats, nor of
a British population which itself
is cruelly oppressed, but
of a City of London/British
Crown-centred worldwide empire
of monetarism, which demands
that its banks be bailed
out and its imperial system
maintained at all costs, even
by the mass murder of billions
of human beings.
But that British imperial
monetary system is now exploding,
and it can therefore
be defeated. The nature of
that system, the nature of the
worldwide mass strike now
erupting against it, and the
needed measures to replace it
and to launch mankind into the
greatest renaissance in history
have been uniquely outlined by
the American physical economist
and statesman Lyndon H.
LaRouche, Jr., most recently
in his 10th March Webcast,
"Ireland & America". [www.
larouchepac.com] There, LaRouche reflected on the interlinked
historic Irish and
American republican struggles
against this British Empire,
and on the Irish elections
of 25th February which saw the
ruling Fianna Fáil party, the
largest party in the Dáil (lower
house of parliament) for the
last eight decades, but which
had committed itself to bail
out Ireland's private (British-owned)
banks at the expense
of the Irish people, collapse in
the worst defeat of a ruling party
since the nation was formed
in 1922. The republican Sinn
Féin movement led by Gerry
Adams, by contrast, which has
vowed not to spend a penny to
bail out the banks, more than
trebled its seats in the Dáil to
overnight become the leading
opposition party in a struggle
which is only beginning.
So far in Australia we have
had just a brief taste of this process,
in the fury which brought
down both Malcolm Turnbull
as Liberal Party leader,
and then Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd over their British-
authored demands for
draconian "emissions trading/
carbon tax" schemes to
allegedly combat actually
non-existent "global warming".
But we have seen nothing
compared to what is now
brewing. In our daily organising
in the streets across
this country, we in the Citizens
Electoral Council and
LaRouche Youth Movement
increasingly hear the refrain,
"We need an Egypt here!";
or even, as from one seemingly
staid matron recently,
referring to not only the increasingly
despised Gillard
government but to the entire
presently ruling political
class including the Coalition
and the Greens: "I think
they’re trying to kill us."
Just look at some of the
actions of this "ruling political
class": they are ruthlessly,
relentlessly shutting
down the Murray-Darling
Basin, one of the greatest
agricultural miracles in the
world (the Howard Coalition
government, remember,
wrote the genocidal Water
Act 2007), even as over
one billion people are starving
worldwide and Australia’s
own food prices are
soaring, while our farmers
are committing suicide and
we are becoming ever more
dependent on food imports;
they are sitting by while the
British-run Coles and Woolworths
duopoly drives dairy
and egg farmers (among others)
out of business by the
day; and they clearly have no
intention whatsoever to actually
rebuild the vast flood
and cyclone-ravaged areas of
our nation in Queensland and
elsewhere, but will just leave
them to moulder and rot and
people to cruelly suffer and
die, because "we don't have
enough money". This, even
as the ALP/Coalition/Greens
have enthusiastically or otherwise
agreed to bail out our
major banks—the local arms
of this British imperial monetarist
system—with almost
$1 trillion dollars in government
guarantees and injections
from the Reserve Bank
and Future Fund already,
with more on the way.
As part of this worldwide
revolt, this deepening mass
strike in Australia already has
some of our press whores,
among others, squealing and
peeing their pants, demanding
that we submit to those
who, indeed, are trying to kill
us, either through malice or,
for most of them, through just
plain cowardice in the face of
their imperial masters.
But, just as in the rest of the
world (to which Australia is
intimately connected despite
our physical isolation), for
this burgeoning mass movement
here to succeed it must
know two things: 1) the true
face of its oppressor, the British
Empire, and 2) the precise
policies which must be implemented
both in Australia and
worldwide, to defeat this enemy.
For elaboration on both
points, we refer you in particular
to LaRouche’s historic
10th March Webcast and
to CEC National Secretary
Craig Isherwood’s 15th January
Address to the Nation
printed below, along with the
rest of this issue of the New
Citizen. It is time you joined
this movement—you really
have no choice.
Contents
Feature:
"We are launching a War of Liberation against the British Empire"
p. 1-7
The Carbon Tax is British
p. 1
U.S. financial crisis inquiry echoes LaRouche
p. 8
Ramsar—the Royal assault on sovereignty
p. 8
The Euthanasia bills: Why the Greens want to kill people
p. 8