Liberation.
Vol.52 N.2 May 2009


Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered
as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing-Rights of Man, 1791-Thomas Paine.

The much vaunted G20 summit did not provide a solution to the problems created by the rampant monetarist system we have
endured since Reagan and Thatcher.

Like all previous crises in the last 300 years, which included the Tulip Mania and the South Sea Bubble, the problems created by the frenetic pursuit of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, the G20 failed to produce a programme for sustainable recovery.

The journal’s front page picture was taken by the resourceful David
Smith from Southampton, who along with thousands of others,
travelled miles to take part in the anti-G20 demonstrations, that
had the answers, butones that did not appeal to the high-powered politicians at the summit.

The demonstration of this arrogance was seen in the police officers
at the G2O demonstrations who covered their faces and removed
their identifying numbers from their uniforms before lashing out at demonstrators-perhaps killing Ian Tomlinson-and the tactic of
“kettling”, which wrongly deprives people of their liberty, as well as
risks their safety.