Pix-&-Vidz of THE Labour Party’s Launch Party

Dateline: London & Brighton pub, Peckham, London, UK, 22:00 Fri 05 Jun 09 – On the day of Gordon Brown’s forced emergency cabinet reshuffle, Mr Mayhem, Teenage Man, Saddam & the Look-Alikes, Bloco de Louco and other left field luminaries were celebrating “The Death and Astonishing Resurrection of THE Labour Party” in a superb squatted pub in Peckham. For twelve long years, the war criminals, torturers, financial fools, and expenses cheats of “New” Labour have been fraudulently stealing working peoples’ votes for their own nefarious ends, so NOW is the time – as the logo of THE Labour Party has it – for a sea change in political engagement: “LABOUR – TAKE THE POWER”!

A. Mr Mayhem delivers Gordon Brown’s Freshly Severed Head onna Silver Platter

L. Sing it, say it, show it w’stickers

M. Bassist bigs up doggy roadie for ensuring she’s properly plugged in

N. And a good time was had by all

O. Mags, the Magnificent Mestre of the Brilliant Bloco de Louco Samba Band

P. Raffle 1st Prize – Gordon Brown’s Head onna Silver Platter

Q. 2nd Prize in the Raffle

R. 3rd & 4th Prizes in the Raffle

S. The Chaos of Capitalism cf. the Good Order of Labour

K. What’s she got? Plenty, Sister!

J. The Fire’s of Hell burn brightly in Saddam’s Eyes

B. Joining Booth for THE Labour Party

C. THE Labour Party Recruitist Jason pulls off his best “startled bunny in headlamps”

D. Teenage Man Walks “The Walk”

E. Teenage Man – not quite so teenagery any more, akshally ;-)

F. Nathan and the VJ Mac Rig

G. Doggy roadie helps bassist get properly plugged in

H. Saddam & the Look-Alikes – magical moustachioed mania!

I. Saddam’s got a banjolele, and he’s not afraid to use it!

V. – for Vendetta, Vengence, and Victory for our Revolution!

Vidz at YouTube

• THE Labour Party Launch – 1. Mr Mayhem
» http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7g03zN3Ms

• THE Labour Party Launch – 2. Teenage Man
» http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61K1idzGSw

• THE Labour Party Launch – 3. Saddam & the Look-Alikes
» http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUbMiNR4Y_I

• THE Labour Party Launch – 4. Bloco de Louco
» http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaf3zvy4vWU


On the evening I first met Prof Chris Knight, Tue 30 Sep 08, he told me in a deadpan style how he was General Secretary of the Labour Party – and since I’d never heard of him before, my scepticism gland started throbbing. Nevertheless, our collaboration began, giving rise to the hundreds-strong Dancing on the Grave of Capitalism! Halloween street party, the Four Horsefolk of the Anti-Capitalist Apocalypse effigies, and the Government of the Dead street theatre direct action collective. 

While an episode of depression took me out of action Jan-Apr 09, Chris and the GotDead went from strength to strength, stringing up a Banker effigy at Tyburn at the end of a Mardi Gras Zombie Voodoo Walk, joining the Climate Rushettes for Dinner at Domestic Departures, and helping organise the G20 protests in London through the Meltdown coalition. Since my recovery, GotDead has initiated SACK PARLIAMENT! and ARREST THE RETURNING MPs protests at the House of Conmens, made Scott Caruth’s CIRCUS of TIANANMEN commemoration a reality at the Bank of England, and helped organise the STOP POLICE VIOLENCE! national demonstration and kettling of New Scotland Yard.
 
So in our judgement, the time has come to turn up the heat on the war criminals, torturers, financial fools, and expenses fraudsters of “New” Labour, and their paymasters in the British capitalist class. There’s a perceptible rising tide of resistance...

• to the austerity forced upon us by their economic crisis;
• to the mass extinction event and catastrophic climate change forced upon our biosphere by their ecological crisis; and
• to the corrupt political classes in both Houses of Parliament (exposed in the expenses and cash-for-influance scandals in the Conmens and Lords respectively) in their political crisis;

...and so now it’s time to catch the wavefront, to gather in and combine our forces of dissent and rebellion, and to spread the wings of direct participatory democracy and political direct action far and wide. 

So it was that the germ of an idea expressed in a pub discussion eight months ago germinated in a “Party To End All Parties!” in a splendid squatted pub in Peckham on Fri 05 Jun 09: “The Death and Astonishing Resurrection of THE Labour Party”. The Laughing Professor’s street agitator persona Mr Mayhem, looking like a cool vampiric undertaker, donated the freshly severed head Gordon Brown on a silver platter as first prize in the raffle. Founding members of THE Labour Party pinned on their free badge and trousered their membership card, which prominently displayed a certain constitutional Clause IV:

"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service."
Party Constitution (Clause IV, part 4, aims & values)

And a grand panoply of bands, DJs, VJs, comperes and poets kept the cultural content bubbling over and the entertainment quotient boosted up high. You can judge for yourself the enjoyability of the musical stylings of the swinging Teenage Man, rocking Saddam & the Look-Alikes, and jumping Bloco de Louco samba band in the videos mentioned above.

"Welcome to The Labour Party – the Party of Labour, injecting participatory direct democracy and direct action into the body politic.

THE Labour Party is a movement that aims to instil vigourous self-reliant direct political action throughout society – in neighbourhoods, workplaces, social and cultural centres, and in local, regional, national and international governing assemblies.

The Labour Party has two websites:
• thelabourparty.info – our ‘Shop Window’ on the web, where content is agreed by consensus, and where you are right now.
• thelabourparty.pbworks.com – our Collaborative Workspace, where you, me and everybody else can collaborate in a persistent virtual workspace to help shape the future of The Labour Party, humanity and our biosphere."

Source: thelabourparty.info

 

Call me a lightweight, but the stench of stale second-hand tobacco smoke (1) and approaching sleepiness drove me homeward at around 01:00, while the party was still going strong – and scheduled for another six hours of jollification.


Whatever Next?
I recommend another Government of the Dead co-production:
Dancing on the Grave of New Labour – A Meltdown Flashmob
• Celebrate the utter and total demise of New Labour on the night of Gordon Brown's resignation
• Location: Labour Party HQ, 39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0HA
• Occasion: Gordon Brown’s announcement that he is resigning as Leader of the Labour Party
• Duration: 18:00-20:00 on the evening of the announcement
» Facebook Event Page: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=93290466485 


Up the Revolution,

Tim Dalinian Jones


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(1) The stench of stale second-hand smoke – seriously, smoking?

• Poisoning yourself and those around you with carcinogens?
• Committing slow suicide in public??
• Openly advertising your shameful addiction to Coffin Nails and Cancer Sticks???
• Putting money in the coffers of tobacco corporations, whose product will kill half their customers prematurely????
• Emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease, gangrene, infertility, stroke, blindness?????

Smoking is only as cool as the early grave into which your self-poisoned corpse will be laid. It’s as rebellious and mature as always giving a drug-pushing bully your dinner money. Please, do the right thing, for yourself, your friends and family, your comrades and our future – QUIT SMOKING NOW:

• You are up to 4 times more likely to quit for good with NHS support:
  » 0800 022 4 332
  » smokefree.nhs.uk
• Quit, the UK Charity that helps people give up smoking:
  » 0800 00 22 00
  » www.quit.org.uk
• Allen Carr, from the BBC Horizon science documentary “We Love Cigarettes”:  
  » www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TL2Vh7goJc
• Every cigarette is doing you damage:
  » www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn50mTEGnrU
• The Real Cost of Smoking (Smoking Cessation #1)
  » www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aIeF5LjaDk

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