WEEKLY SMIRKER

Newspaper of the Socialist Revolutionary Group Issue One April 2011 £1/50p

COLONEL GADDAFI OFF YOUR KNEES:

CALL A GENERAL STRIKE NOW!
After the magnificent our class is doomed to repeat Our Five Point Plan for
demonstration of 26th March, the defeats of the past. revolution
every workplace in the country
is filled with proletarians asking The TUC refuses to call a 1: Turn Trafalgar Square into
the question, “What Next?” general strike. Clearly, it is left Tahrir Square!
to Comrade Colonel Gaddafi to
For us in the Socialist lead us in our resistance. He is We must emulate the Egyptian
Revolutionary Group, the the only force left with enough masses’ brilliant revolutionary
answer is clear. The British social weight in the masses, strategy of standing around in the
working class faces two great and his anti-imperialist same place for three weeks. If
enemies; the cuts, and credentials are unblemished if they can do it there, we can etc
imperialism. While the you ignore all the deals he has etc!
government attempts to made with the West in the last
strengthen the rule of capital at few years. 2: Turn Tahrir Square into
home with its austerity Albert Square!
measures, it also seeks to It is clear that the Benghazi
Let’s give the Egyptian working
strangle the people of the criminals are in the pay of class a break and let them watch
Middle East with its imperialist imperialism. The contents of a Eastenders.
machinations. captured Toyota pick-up shown
on Libyan state TV included an 3: Turn Albert Square into
Only a general strike now! American-made machine gun, Times Square!
can beat the government’s empty McDonalds wrappers
plans at home and abroad and the complete series of The Cockney masses have
Without a general strike now!, Friends on DVD. lived in drab squalor for too long.
What do we want? More neon
We are launching signs! Where do we want them?
a campaign for the Walford!
TUC to organise
I n t e r n a t i o n a l 4: Turn Times Square into
Brigades to fight for Tiananmen Square!
the Arab Revolution
alongside Gaddafi. Shoot the Americans down like
Contact Comrade dogs. Or as they say in New
Vanessa Redgrave York, “dawgs.”
for more details.
5: Turn Tiananmen Square into
Trafalgar Square!

Hands off Libya! With a huge column in the

middle, the Communist Party
Hands on your could spot reactionary dissidents
AKs! a mile off, making it easier to
kettle them.
This map shows the movement of the hopeless
Benghazi counterrevolutionaries
“Brendan Barber, Westminster SRG holds
pay your tax!” successful storming
London SRG teamed up with UK
Uncut this week to demand that fat-
of Parliament
cat union bosses pay their fair share
of tax.
Several dozen activists staged a
sit-in at Congress House to demand
that the Revenue and Customs takes
action against highly-paid union
general secretaries who are stashing
their pay packets in international tax
havens.
Bob Crow from the RMT, who
joined the protesters, said: “It’s
disgraceful that some of these guys
earn six-figure salaries, far more than
their ordinary members have to live
on. Why can’t they be like me and
muddle along on ninety-five grand a
year?”
A UK Uncut spokesperson said:
“Not even my parents earn as much
as these guys.”
The Westminster branch of Dave, who works in local
the SRG held a successful government, said: “When
public meeting on the need Billy Hayes set himself alight
for a general strike on in Parliament Square, I
Wednesday, after which found that really inspiring
Parliament was seized. and it made me want to get
involved.”
Tariq Ali and Billy Hayes,
general secretary of the Once the Palace of
CWU, introduced a lively Westminster was taken, the
discussion, which even new revolutionary council
included a couple of issued a proclamation
contributions from the floor. announcing the
This was followed by a nationalisation of the
proposal to march on commanding heights of the
Parliament. economy, and the
establishment of a workers’
Health worker Helen said: state based on new organs
“Everyone in my workplace of class power.
is really angry. It’s great to
see that someone is Seventeen copies of the
interested in channelling that Weekly Smirker were sold,
anger into something we can and four people filled out
do locally, like bringing down cards indicating they would

SPORT the government.” like to join the SRG.

Trouble flares at Marxists vs. Anarchists match

Promising right-winger Nikolai Bukharin
shows his skills
This season’s game of the
age-old fixture, Marxists vs.
Anarchists, had to be
abandoned after it descended
into violence.
The Marxists started
brightly while the anarchists
chose a non-hierarchical 10-
0-0 formation. But Pannekoek
and Gorter, playing down the
Marxists’ left-wing, at times
seemed more suited to the
Anarchist style of play.
A couple of early
controversial decisions saw
chants from the Marxist fans
of “The referee’s a banker!”
and “Who’s the bastard in the
black (flag)?”
The anarchist team was
weakened by the absence of
star-striker Bakunin, who is
banned for six games for
trying to overthrow FIFA
president Sepp Blatter in a
violent insurrection.
Trouble flared after Marxist
coach Leon Trotsky
reportedly told his players at
half-time to “shoot them down
like partridges.”
Halfway through the second
half, fans from notorious
anarchist “firm” the Black Bloc
invaded the pitch, in a move
denounced by many in the
Marxist camp as “adventurist”
and “counter-productive.”