[news] APC refuses to retreat!

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From: lubby at resist.ca


THE PEOPLE REFUSE TO RETREAT, THE LIBERALS WE WILL DEFEAT!

On Friday February 20th, the Anti-Poverty Committee organized a march of
over 150 angry people. This by far has been the largest anti-poverty march
in over a year, since the labour bureaucrats issued their orders to the
rank and file to retreat and fall in behind the NDP.

The march denounced the Liberals and exposed their lies. April 1st remains
to be a day of catastrophe for poor people across this province. The
figure of recipients to be cut off of welfare that was released by the
Liberals is yet more manufactured bullshit. Realizing the impossibility of
absorbing tens of thousands of people into shelters and onto the streets
all at once, the Liberals have changed tactics and will instead throw
people off in three month intervals. Instead one big tidal wave we will
drown with wave after wave.

APC took the streets to say while we have the government bending over to
make concessions, now is the time to break its back!

The march winded through the Downtown Eastside and ended up at an
abandoned welfare office. The office has been empty for years and will
soon be joined by seven other vacant welfare offices when the Liberals
shut them down and throw out the workers and welfare recipients.

The office was taken over for the weekend as a community center and from
there we launched our ultimatum to the government: every welfare office
they close to the people, the people will take it back and convert it into
housing!

Throughout the weekend over twenty-five different organizations and union
locals strategized the destruction of the BC Liberals. The theme that ran
through the six workshops was the necessity of forming a Common Front to
unite our struggles. The diversity of the organizations that have so far
signed on to the Common Front reflects the all out attack the liberals
have launched on all sectors of poor and working poor people.

The APC sees this Common Front as only the beginning of a rejuvenated
offensive. We have shown with the dozens of other organizations, who
refuse to retreat, that mobilizing people at ground zero of the
devastation caused by the Liberals is building the momentum to carry the
struggle of all working people. Moving from victory to victory we have
proven what it takes to fight back; we have shown what it will take to
win!