Against my better judgement and the advice of my boyfriend I went to the People’s Assembly walk about yesterday and what a waste of time it was. It was the same as every other demonstration of this type which I have attended.

It was painfully ineffective, painfully irrelevant and painfully middle class. This does not make a very tasty cocktail, rather one which leaves a bitter taste in the mouth followed by a sickly feeling of regret.

Regret because it was a waste of time from point A through to point B and regret because I actually bothered to listen to the nauseating speakers at the end. It will come as no surprise for me to say that I was not impressed.

Those speakers were unrepresentative of the working class. I came to Britain as a refugee from the Turkish occupied section of Kurdistan and lived on London council estates ever since. This was 25 years ago that I came to Britain. I was not old enough to remember the class conditions in Kurdistan daily life but my family and friends tell me that it is the same the world over just with unique features in each place. This has been a defining philosophy for my life. This has also made me able to draw a mental and political line between those on our side and the fakers. I would call the speakers at the end the fakers because as a working class person I can not feel any relation to the speakers and those making the claim to represent us. Of course I stand with the doctors, the steelworkers and others in dispute against the horrible government but overall I was not feeling like the demonstration represented my interests as a working class person. I will not see any of the end speakers on any estate I have lived on. This reminded me of the following quote from The Communist Manifesto which I first read in Kobani late last year after receiving it as a gift from my boyfriend:

“…all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance they are revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat…”

Of course the two principle writers of The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels, were themselves middle or upper class but their point was correct.

This leaves me with one final thought on the matter. The People’s Assembly need to stop chatting shit and get with the real world or leave us alone to fight for ourselves.