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Protest at the G8 summit

Make capitalism history - make socialism our future!

THIS JULY, the G8 - the bosses' club - will meet in Scotland, under the presidency of the British government. We call on you to join the counter-demonstrations in Edinburgh and Gleneagles.

Zena Awad, International Socialist Resistance (ISR)

The leaders of the G8 nations support the occupation of Iraq. Millions have demonstrated against the war and occupation but the leaders of the richest nations on the planet are only interested in backing big business and its hunger for oil.

The African continent has been devastated over decades by the capitalists. Their imperialist policies have robbed Africa of its resources and impoverished the majority of the population. We believe only a struggle by the African working class and poor for democratic control of their resources offers a way out.

Millions of young people in Britain and Europe want to do something about the plight of the workers and poor in Africa and throughout the world. The response to the tsunami appeal put the G8 leaders to shame. The spontaneous outpouring of solidarity by people in Western Europe and the USA surpassed their miserly offerings.

Events organised against the G8, like in Genoa or in Evian, have seen mass demonstrations against the capitalist system and its hypocritical leaders. Gleneagles won't be an exception. Join us to demonstrate, to show that another world is needed.

We demand:

• Immediate write-off of the debt burden without conditions.

• For an immediate increase in aid. For democratic control of aid and its distribution by elected committees representing the working class, trade unions and the poor.

• Bring into public ownership the 500 major multinationals that dominate the world economy, under democratic working-class control and management.

• Support for the working class and poor in their struggle to overthrow the corrupt pro-capitalist governments of the neo-colonial world.

• Make capitalism history. For the building of a socialist planned economy internationally to abolish poverty, hunger and disease.

Join the protests

International Socialist Resistance, an international organisation of socialists, will take part in the G8 summit demonstrations, putting forward socialist ideas.

We're co-organising an international youth camp with the International Socialists, the Scottish affiliate to the Committee for Workers' International (CWI).

The CWI is an international socialist organisation with members in nearly 40 countries around the world, including the International Socialists in Scotland and the Socialist Party in England and Wales.

We will organise a coach going from the camp each day to take people to the protests and meetings which are planned for the counter-summit. There will be an opportunity to participate in political discussions with socialists from all over Europe.

For more information: ISR: www.anticapitalism.org.uk  020 8558 7947, PO Box 858, London E11 1YG,

International Socialists : www.cwiscotland.org email: cwiscotland@yahoo.co.uk

Committee for a Workers' International: www.socialistworld.net  email: cwi@worldsoc.co.uk

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