The 2012 Olympics is littered with organisations claiming to be bringing benefits London and the UK. These goodies include the vital achievement of ‘world city’ status for London and a range of other ‘unquantifiable benefits’.

Here is a guide to some of these organisations.

IOU, otherwise known as the IOC (International Olympic Committee). This is the big daddy of them all, pioneering international debt creation agency and eviction overlord. Montreal has just paid off its debts thirty years after holding its Games. Seoul and Beijing (now reckoned to have evicted over a million people) have seen around two million people evicted to make way for their Games. Evictions and debts characterise these events and post-Games studies increasingly undermine claims of economic and social benefits. The IOU organises itself through a number of so-called ‘commissions’ (with no legal status) which require cities and governments to conform to its requirements, pay the multi-billion pound bills and follow restrictive timetables in the creation of Olympic parks, which for the most part are then abandoned and left derelict. It does this regardless of the financial and social costs in the destruction of existing facilities and townscapes and the eviction of communities and businesses, all for a month long sporting jamboree, which is why it is now desperate to present itself as creating Legacies for the future. Corruption scandals further reveal the true nature of this organisation. The reality is the IOU is a brand out to corner a market.

BIOU, otherwise known as BOA (British Olympic Association), the British cheerleaders for the IOU, who urge the need for strict adherence to IOU requirements and demands.

Lil’cog in the machine, otherwise called LOCOG (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games), which has to make sure that what the IOU wants it gets.

London (Not a World City) 2012, otherwise known as London 2012 which is desperate to ensure London finally achieves world city status (which has eluded it for so long!) and claims this can only be achieved through the benevolence of the IOU.

LODA, which has two arms, the ODA (Olympic Delivery Authority) and the LDA (London Development Agency). The ODA has been given autocratic powers by the granting of the Compulsory Purchase Order and by Act of Parliament to award itself and the LDA planning permission and to remove and, if need be, destroy any and all communities, businesses and facilities in their path and to carry out these tasks in the drive to meet the requirements of the IOU. The ODA and LDA claim to be separate and distinct bodies and in a formal, legal sense this may be so. In reality they are a seamless state within a state which can be best described as the London Olympic Delivery Autocracy.

LWHO? This is a set of marginalised organisations, LBN (London Borough of Newham), LBTH (LB Tower Hamlets), LBH (LB Hackney), LBWF (LB Waltham Forest), GLA (Greater London Assembly), which have little power or influence and have lost control over the land now in the hands of LODA. However, it should be noted they do still have an irritant capacity as has recently been seen in the decision by LBWF to refuse to accept the Manor Gardens allotments.

YOU, whoever you are, who should not rely on the above. We have it from no less an authority than the Legal Aid Commission, when refusing legal aid to challenge drilling work at Clays Lane, that there is a well financed and organised campaign in existence in opposition to the Olympics. So you can take heart from that!