A GAA activist pointed out that Atos' corrupt sponsorship
of the Commonwealth Games next year in 2014 is a real opportunity to challenge
them and that such behaviour should not be allowed to set the campaign back.
A whole range of shabby tactics has been used against
FRFI. Slanderous emails and facebook postings have circulated in increasing in
volume and intensity and attracted the dubious encouragement of many who have
never attended a single anti- Atos event.
FRFI Supporters face court for involvement in GAA street
activity. We have openly argued for the fullest defence of the democratic
rights of all. Now FRFI is accused of deliberately seeking arrest as part of a
strategy of self promotion. One of the two comrades arrested on the 22 February
GAA picket, for using a loudspeaker, has outrageously been described as a ‘liability
to any campaign who don't want any attention from the police.' (‘to members of FRFI and Glasgow Defence
Campaign’, 22 June)
Within days of the 18 July meeting a GAA member prominent
in the campaign against Atos sponsorship of the Commonwealth Games, and not a
supporter of FRFI, was visited by plain clothes police. Is he to be slandered
also?
Only the vile multinational Atos and its friends in
government stand to gain from this backward and reactionary behaviour.
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! has never disguised its
socialist politics and our commitment to the defence of the disabled and the
working class.
We openly argue for the politics of action, democracy,
involvement and solidarity because we say that this is how that defence can be
successfully built. The politics of those who walked out are the politics of
exclusion, control and ultimately isolation. We reject this completely.
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! calls on all those who
want to take the Glasgow Against Atos Campaign forward in openess, militancy
and determination to join together in
democratic spirit and organisation.
Atos Out!
Venceremos!
We Shall Win!
