Students Right To Riot?

Alone of all British political organizations, TWOP refuses to condemn the recent student riots over the Con-Dem vote to increase university fees.

It is not that we regard violence as a legitimate political expression: we do not. It is that we do not regard a violent response as a successful one.

It is the same as the argument against mounting a revolution. The State will always have more men, more money and more resources to call upon than any organization intending to overthrow it. It is only when the State has already ceased to be effective that it can be overthrown - because in a sense it already has been. This is what happened in Russia in 1917; it is not going to happen here.

However, neither do we support those who feel that the students should have mounted a peaceful protest. What is the use of peaceful protest in a representative society? It is time to realize that whoever's views they pretend to represent, it isn't those of the electorate, of the taxpayers whose money they spend whenever they make their decisions.

I urge any student reading this to check our website, www.twopforum.webs.com, for more information about True Democracy. This is the political system we want, are working for, and will one day create. In our system, in the Great Britain to come, it is not so much that students will have a right to riot; it is that they will have no need to.