Wroclaw / Poland 8/10/2022
Although the price of crude oil in world markets has fallen below pre-February 24 levels, we are paying double the price for fuel at gas stations. The same applies to gas and electricity prices. As you can see, the war in Ukraine was needed as a pretext for global changes that led to the acceleration of the Great Depression. In most countries, energy prices are regulated by companies that are majority owned by the state, if listed on the stock exchange. And the state, i.e. the government, decides on the prices. The tax office benefits from this. High prices lead to higher taxes.
Due to the fact that from May this year. Printing new money has been banned around the world (and who banned it?) – as a long overdue way to combat inflation – governments have found a way to raise some money for their “great” policies to boost the global economy ruin. Not only we as private consumers pay high energy bills. Even worse are businesses like bakeries that use a lot of energy to bake bread. This increases the price of the bread. Such a small example that is part of the entire spiral of inflation, i.e. the covert taxation of society.
A new social initiative has been launched in the UK to combat artificially rising electricity prices. It’s called Don’t Pay.
It’s simple: we are demanding a reduction of energy bills to an affordable level. Our leverage is that we will gather a million people to pledge not to pay if the government goes ahead with another massive hike on October 1st.
Mass non-payment is not a new idea, it happened in the UK in the late 80s and 90s, when more than 17 million people refused to pay the Poll Tax – helping bring down the government and reversing its harshest measures.
It is planned to gather one million electricity consumers who will declare not to pay their electricity bills from October 1st. The only thing that threatens them is the power cut, which is also imminent for regular electricity payers – a blackout that is becoming increasingly likely. To date, over 96,000 declarations of non-payment of bills have been collected.
It is not a direct struggle between society and the government. Energy companies are highly dependent on bill payments, and the loss of liquidity is a major blow to those who are exploiting the hysteria to artificially inflate prices.
In China, over a million people have stopped making their loan payments. In most cases, this is because their banks have suspended withdrawals. This is a serious problem for China’s financial economy. It is difficult to expect this protest to be as organized as it is in the British Isles in a ‘liberal’ country like China, but the effect is similar. Chinese communism is deceptively similar to the period of early capitalist exploitation in Europe in the 19th century industrial revolution.
Author of the article: Marek Wojcik