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Britain\u2019s ruling elite express fear of \u201cclass war\u201d<\/a>
\nChris Marsden
\nwsws.org
\nDecember 11, 2009<\/p>\n

Class war eh?<\/p>\n

ChristieBooks<\/a> is the site maintained by Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie. His granny made him an anarchist; sadly, he failed to kill Franco. Still, there’s hundreds of great films on the site — including An Anarchist’s Story<\/a><\/em>, a recent documentary on fellow Scottish anarchist Ethel MacDonald (1909–1960), the woman who became the English voice of anarchist radio in Barcelona. Further, Uncle Stuart’s writings<\/a> on Spanish anarchism are essential reading.<\/p>\n

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE FOR CRASSMAS NO.1<\/strong><\/p>\n

A group<\/a> has been set up on Facebook calling on UK consumers to refrain from buying product X and to instead purchase “foul-mouthed metallers” (The Sun<\/em>) Rage Against the Machine’s 1992 pop hit ‘Killing in the Name’ so as to break the monopoly The X Factor<\/em> has held on the #1 spot in the pop charts. Thus RATM are — or rather were — competing against not only The Muppets and a muppet karaoke star * (Joe McElderry) from shit TV show The X Factor<\/em> [but also my ability to construct incomplete sentences: I win]. An English couple called Jon and Tracy Morter started the group to stop The X Factor<\/em> from claiming the “Christmas Number One” for the fifth year in a row.<\/p>\n

Several weeks ago, multi-millionaire host and showbiz hack Simon Cowell said the campaign ws stoopid<\/a>; ten days that shook the UK pop world world later, he’s now “gutted”:<\/p>\n

Cowell ‘gutted’ by chart defeat<\/a>
\nUKPA
\nDecember 20, 2009<\/p>\n

Pop mogul Simon Cowell said he was “gutted” at losing the battle for Christmas number one as Rage Against The Machine beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry in the fight for the top spot.<\/p>\n

The rap metal act saw their expletive-ridden 1992 hit Killing in the Name sell 500,000 copies in one week and become the first ever Christmas number one that was available only through downloads.<\/p>\n

Cowell offered his congratulations to the couple behind the campaign, Jon and Tracy Morter…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And congratulations also to Sony, the company what owns both RATM and The X Factor<\/em> (tho’ the sweary 90s pop *s have apparently agreed to donate their share of the profits to homeless charity Shelter<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Of course, what I’d<\/em> like for Crassmas is a copy of Bakunin: The Creative Passion<\/a><\/em> by Mark Leier (Thomas Dunne Books, 2006).<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Facebookers rage against Simon Cowell’s Christmas juggernaut<\/a>, Richard Allen Greene, CNN, December 11, 2009 | Facebook campaign rages against sugary seasonal ballads<\/a>, Valkerie Baynes, The Age<\/em> (AAP), December 20, 2009 | Rage against Cowell for yule No. 1<\/a>, Valkerie Baynes, The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> (AAP), December 21, 2009 | Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts<\/a>, BBC, December 21, 2009.<\/p>\n

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