Anti-Olympic Protestors Who Riot: Stupid? Maybe. Criminal. No.

As most people know the Olypmics are currently taking place in Vancouver and Whistler in British Columbia. The games have done nothing but bleed public services in Canada dry. In response to this their have been plenty of protests against these games. There have been allegations by the Bourgeois (capitalist) Press of protestors being "violent". I'm a Marxist, not a Petty-Bourgeois (middle-class, white-collar) moralist and see no reason to be repugnant over "violence".

First of all what's worse, trigger-happy thugs in blue (i.e. cops), who have a monopoly on fire-arms and tasers, gunning down the mentally ill, disabled, natives and hispanics in the ghettos like Downtown Eastside, cops breaking strikes or assualting protestors with tasers, guns, pepper spray, tear gas etc. or a couple of people breaking a few windows?

The multi-racial, neurolocially diverse Proletariat (working-class) must show its uncompromising solidarity with Olympic protestors against cop terror and state repression. Such means as mass strikes, united front demos and labour defense guards should prove affective.

This being said I don't think one should be uncritical of the anti-olympics protestors. Breaking windows is NOT criminal from the standpoint of the revolutionary proletariat. However, such tactics as breaking windows are NOT affective and only give the Bourgeoisie (capitalist class) and excuse to bolster state power. And the Bourgeoisie WILL seize on the opportunity to do so.

Also, none of the groups on the groups, to my knowledge, have sought to mobilize the Proletariat. The Proletariat is not one more layer of oppressed people, but is the only class with the objective interests and means to abolished private property, class society and every last vestige of this decaying, rotting system know as Capitalism. Groups like the Anti-Poverty Committee thinks that cop terror can be eliminated with civilian review boards. But the cops can not be reformed to serve the oppressed. They must be smashed throught workers' revolution.

In order to mobilize the working class what is needed is a revolutionary, Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard party to lead the working class to power. This goes hand-in-hand with breaking the working class from the labour bureaucracy and their political arm the NDP. The labour bureaucracy even agreed to extend labour contracts till after the Olympics to ensure "labour peace" during the Olympics. Criminal indeed. After the Olympics, the province will be so in debt that the government and the bosses they represent will rip apart union contract front and centre.