(en) Aotearoa (N.Z.), Workers Solidarity Movement - AWSM leaflet: Asset sales - an anarchist position

Angry? You bet! We are marching side-by-side with others who are sick and tired of greed. 
We reject privatisation ? the transfer of functions and industry to the private sector ? 
as it only leads to higher prices, less and worse jobs, and worse services. ---- Given 
this, some view nationalisation ? the transfer of economic resources (e.g. mines, banks, 
and factories) to state ownership and control ? as a rallying cry for a socialist 
alternative. ---- However, nationalisation has never removed capitalism, nor led to 
socialism, and it certainly does not have a record of improving wages, jobs, rights and 
safety. Nationalisation, rather than promote "workers? control" or companies? 
accountability to the public, has routinely meant top-down management, union-bashing, bad 
services and bad conditions.

We see another way forward: collectivisation from below! We can place
industry under direct workers? self-management, subject to worker-community
participatory democratic control to meet human needs and end oppression and
environmental destruction. Strikes and occupations can be our collective tools
for liberation.

As anarchists, we cannot reconcile ourselves to any government. The Aotearoa
Workers Solidarity Movement is an organisation working towards a classless,
stateless society: anarchist communism. That society would be run by a
federation of workplace and community councils, with everyone having a say in
decisions that affect them.

Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
www.awsm.noblogs.org - awsm@riseup.net - AWSM, PO Box 6387, Wellington