Say No to the Millennium
The most pressing political question of the day is how the
proletariat can extract itself from the farrago of mind bending
psychological assaults which will be passed off as 'celebrating'
the millennium. The function of this great spectacle, which the
bourgeoisie has already been preparing for some time, is nothing
short of bolstering their regime in the face of fresh working class
onslaughts which will mark the next ten years.
By staging an event which is to be 'enjoyed by all' they hope to
restore the bonds which link the wage slave to the boss, the
disenchanted youth with the battery of social workers, cops and
teachers who police them, and to reintegrate the pseudo-rebels into
mainstream culture. However, things wont go so easily for the boss
class. We will resist. We shall say no to the millennium.
No Third Reich, No Third Millennium
In the pre-election period, New Labour Führer, Tony Blair, was
already planning how to use his accession to power to gain the same
sort of self-aggrandisement as achieved by fellow social democrat,
and late President of France, François Mitterand. Taking a
leaf out of Hitler's rhetorical style, Blair spoke of having "a
thousand days to prepare for the next thousand years". And when
there were just a thousand days left, the event did not go
unmarked. At Greenwich observatory a ritual which included the
ignition of a large number of fireworks took place, and a clock was
installed to mark how the seconds are ticking away. Regular readers
of the newsletter will be familiar with the special place Greenwich
holds for the activities of the occult establishment. The Queen
even visited the Queen's House during the eclipse on May 10th 1994
(see LPA newsletter No. 6, Beltaine 1994).
Even as this is published, the groundwork is going ahead to prepare
the millennium site in the Greenwich peninsular. Recent studies of
the alignment of Canary Wharf have revealed that not only are the
buildings aligned with St Paul's Cathedral and Cuckold's Point to
the west, but that it also traverses the top of Greenwich
peninsular to the east. We venture the hypothesis that this
alignment will be used in whatever architectural monstrosities are
erected to overwhelm the projected hundreds of thousands of
visitors which they hope to psychologically process.
However we are not yet in a position to analyse or initiate
resistance to this horror show in spatial terms. Our aim here is to
challenge the Christian/bourgeois organisation of time by which the
flawed notion of the millennium arises in the first place. In fact
we are calling on revolutionaries to break with the Gregorian
calendar. We have been promoting the Modern Khemetic Calendar
(which we shall explain in more detail later in this article).
However this does not mean that we assume that the world
proletarian movement will automatically except it. What we are
proposing is that an Anti Millennium Alliance is formed so
revolutionary communist groups can participate in the development
of a new calendar acceptable to all. We still feel that our idea
seems to be the best, but if another better proposal comes along,
we will be happy to follow it.
There will of course be some part-time revolutionaries who will
moan and whinge at our suggestion. "Its not important" they wheeze,
"why make an issue of it?". However such shallow reasoning is
easily exposed. Communists are agreed that participation in
elections is a way in which the working class is numbed into
accepting the charade of parliamentary democracy. But such
carnivals occur only once every few years. However people write the
date many times a week. Therefore the potential of organising
resistance to the Gregorian calendar is much greater than
propaganda against the election. We create a rent in the social
fabric when we fill in official forms according to our own
calendar. It is time for action - and action now. It is time to
break with the Gregorian calendar.
Each day has now been accounted for in the lead up to the
millennium, each day has been contained. Each day functions merely
to give way to the next. As our lives get consumed by the drudgery
of wage labour, poverty and social decay, all that is held out for
us is a party to mark the inauguration of another thousand year
Reich. In Zimbabwe, the ruling ZANU party would arrange local party
banquets at which the general populace was allowed the privilege of
watching the party cadres eat - without themselves being invited to
join in. It is exactly the same here, with TV as the media. We are
offered the chance to watch the rich and famous laugh, and drink
and gorge themselves while we look on and are meant to clap. Some
have suggested that the occasion be used to inaugurate a truly
proletarian party where we simply take back the products of our
labour which we have been denied. Our response to that is: why
wait. Is it not better to break with the Gregorian calendar.