https://marxist.ca/article/deliberate-sabotage-of-ottawa-freedom-convoy-counter-demo-by-aristocracy-of-labour
Deliberate sabotage of Ottawa ‘Freedom Convoy’ counter-demo by aristocracy of labour
On Friday, Feb. 3rd, 87 people attended a private Zoom meeting entitled “Ottawa community townhall and response to convoy”, started by a Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Ottawa local executive. Despite the meeting not being made public, 87 people attended through various invites. Several left-wing, labour organizations and individuals attended, including Ottawa Centre NDP MPP Joel Harden.
Identity politics used to shut down action by labour movement
The discussion revolved around a potential counter-protest to the “Freedom Convoy 2022” which continues to occupy downtown Ottawa. The agenda was geared around creating a wider virtual town hall where people could strategize further actions and a potential counter-protest. However, immediately it was made clear by a small group of activists that there was an even smaller meeting held behind closed doors, the night before, to come up with a proposal to block any attempt at strategizing actions for the weekend. The discussion was almost exclusively based on the need to cancel a counter-protest which had been posted on Reddit and had received a lot of attention with 9000+ likes.
Representatives of the Public Service Alliance of Canada said that the union would not be endorsing a counter-protest due to safety concerns for BIPOC people (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour).
Reddit counter-protest organizers attacked
Two of the people who made the initial Reddit post calling for counter-protests were attending as well. They had received thousands of likes and comments on the social media platform, and thought it wise to reach out to leaders of the labour movement and NDP for support. But they quickly found themselves defending even just the need for a protest and trying desperately to find support to make the counter-protest safer. Instead they were met with hostility and accusations.
After considerable calls to cancel the counter-protest, one of the organizers said that he would cancel it, but that he couldn’t speak for the other. To his credit, the other organizer refused to cancel the counter-protest and said that he would go ahead with it for Saturday at 2 p.m. Enraged by this, some people in the meeting turned to active sabotage, including suggestions of getting moderators to take down the thread about the protest on Reddit and actively advertising on social media telling everyone not to go.
This continued with an outcry from the floor, with those against the counter-protest demanding that anyone with any connection to the organizer reach out to him and convince him to stop. They even used a hashtag in the chat: #STOP[HIM]. Our OSSTF member defended the organizer, demanding people focus on how to stop the right-wing leaders of the convoy instead. More hostility followed, including baseless statements claiming the organizer and our members were no different from the Freedom Convoy protestors, and that they were supporting white supremacy!
COMMUNISTS EVEN GET IT.
MARXISTS WE STAND IN ARMS AGAINST THE LIBERAL MENACE AND THEIR UTTER DEPRAVITY.
Get
fucked liberals. Far right, center right, moderates, the center, center left, socialists, and communists we used to combine our forces to end liberalism.
Imagine when the ENTIRE POLITICAL COMPASS fucking
hates you and your calcifying privilege, brittle as the the brightest bone. You steep from your ivory steeples, wah wahing about commuting to the office while the rest of society puts our nose to the sand and risks deadly sniffles. Every day it exposes your depravity and privilege. The clock is ticking. Liberty wants her paycheck.
Leftists look at what's happening. Look at the reward: liberals control every institution in the west along all cultural lines and can censor and kill speech. Anyone's speech. Yours, mine, on a mere whim. They use IDpol as a way to merely shut down.
