Join the G8 protest

EVERY FIVE seconds a child dies from hunger and disease, yet global
food aid has actually fallen by 50% over the last five years. The
promises of politicians seem increasingly hollow when measured against
these stark facts.

Thousands of mainly young people will be protesting at the G8 summit
in Gleneagles on 2 July hoping to put pressure on the leaders of the
world’s richest countries to "Make poverty history".

Yet only 4% of the wealth of the world’s richest 225 people – $40
billion – would be enough for basic healthcare, food, safe water,
sanitation and education for all of the world’s people (UNDP Human
Development Report).

The $168 billion that the US has spent on the invasion and occupation
of Iraq could fully fund world anti-hunger programmes for the next seven
years, or AIDS programmes for 16 years.

These leaders preside over the madness of an economic system,
capitalism, that enriches a few at the expense of millions; that sees
its interests in killing and oppression on a mass scale; that pollutes
and destroys our environment. How can they be made to see reason?

Only a socialist world can end the madness. Only ordinary people –
the working class along with young people, the middle classes, the poor
– have the power to overthrow capitalism and use the vast resources in
the world for the benefit of humanity.

International Socialist Resistance, the Socialist Party and
representatives from many other sections of the Committee for a Workers’
International will be going to the G8 at Gleneagles to put that
alternative.

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 masses 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.

ISR, an international organisation of socialists, will take part in
the demonstrations at the G8, putting forward socialist ideas. We’re co-organising
an international youth camp with the International Socialists, the
Scottish affiliate to the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI).

The CWI is an international socialist organisation with members in 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.

Go
to G8 page for more information


For more information:

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

International Socialists: www.cwiscotland.org

[email protected]

Committee for a Workers’ International:

www.socialistworld.net
 [email protected]