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So many problems face this world: the growing capitalist crisis, rising poverty, the US-UK-Israeli genocide in Palestine, Nato’s proxy war on Russia in Ukraine and the imperialist drive to war against China and Iran, to name just a few. Poverty and war can never be abolished while capitalism remains, but they could be quickly sorted if society was set up for the benefit of the working majority rather than for the private gain of a few billionaires.
In the twentieth century, the ruling classes of Europe responded to global capitalist economic crises by slaughtering more than 100 million people in World War 1 and World War 2. This was beside the ocean of blood that was spilt by imperialist armies in trying to prevent the colonised peoples gaining their freedom from European, Japanese and US imperial occupiers.
Today, a global economic crisis is once again gripping the capitalist system. As profit rates fall, the lords of finance capital are sitting on trillions of dollars’ worth of capital that they are unable to invest profitably, while working people are pushed into ever more precarious and poorly-paid jobs or laid off and left on the scrap heap of unemployment.
Unable to find profitable investments, the capitalists’ only solution is to drive us into another world war, through which they are trying to wipe out every independent or sovereign government that protects its people and resources and so stands in the way of the global capitalist wealth extraction machine. The imperialist powers hope to revive their failing economies through government war contracts, the unfettered looting of vanquished countries, and the subsequent ‘reconstruction’ of all the infrastructure they plan to destroy with their bombs.
Rich get richer as the poor get poorer
Meanwhile, the ruling class’s other approach to trying to bring back some profitability at home is through increasing the rate of exploitation on the domestic working class. This means relentless attacks on our pay and pensions, cuts in social spending, treasury looting, monopoly price-gouging and endless money-printing – which in turn leads to ever higher inflation.
Inflation robs from the poor by bringing down the real value of our pay packets, meaning we can pay for fewer things each month – less food and clothing, less energy and heating, less of everything we need to survive and thrive. Ever since 2008, workers in Britain have been suffering through inflation that has far outstripped any so-called ‘pay rises’ we have been able to win through trade union action. This means that we have in fact been getting real-terms pay cuts year on year for nearly two decades.
Not only do we need to campaign against the bad conditions and lack of prospects for working-class people in Britain today, but we need to work for a completely different type of society – one where people’s needs decide everything and the economy is organised rationally. The shining examples of China today, and of the Soviet Union in the twentieth century, demonstrate that unemployment, economic crisis and war are avoidable when society is organised in the interests of the working people.
Today, as people begin to lose trust in the establishment parties and the entire electoral system, the ruling class is simply rebranding the right wing of the Tories as ‘Reform’ and the left wing of Labour as ‘Your Party’. They want us to believe that these parties are ‘disrupters’ rather than more of the same. They want us to keep on hoping for change through the ballot box rather than organising ourselves to take power and build a new society for ourselves.
But neither Reform nor Your Party are remotely anti-establishment. Both of them pretend to offer ‘radical solutions’ while in practise their proposals would leave the entire machinery of capitalist exploitation and imperialist war intact. If their programmes were even put into effect (which is unlikely in practice), they only propose tinkering around the edges, leaving the state bureaucracy and the economic system unaffected.
Capital would continue to be moved out of the country to where labour and raw materials are cheaper, industries would continue to be dismantled, services would continue to be privatised, and the treasury would continue to be looted by the banks and monopoly corporations whose owners are the real rulers of our society. The flames of war would continue to be fanned, and workers would continue to become poorer and more divided by corporate media-led ‘culture wars’ and anti-immigrant hysteria.
Inequality widening in Cambridge
In Cambridge, the average house costs more than 20 times the salary of the poorest 10 percent of residents. While the tech sector is booming, with over 60,000 people employed in the so-called ‘Silicon Fen’, inequality is greater than ever.
Productive industries in our region have been dismantled and most of us can only find service jobs. This is because our economy is driven by profits alone. Industries are moved abroad where labour is more exploitable and profits are higher. What is left is a bloated and parasitic financial sector and tech monopolies – a recipe for inequality, unemployment and economic crisis.
The CPGB-ML is a party that really represents working-class interests and the change we need. We consistently apply Marxist science to all areas of our work, and we’re not scared to tell it how it is.
We refuse to be intimidated by the barrage of lying propaganda that fills Britain’s mainstream media. We do not blindly accept the ideology that the free-market fundamentalists try to indoctrinate us with, whether in its ‘left’ or ‘right’ form. We study our past and our present in order to help our class understand what is true and what we need to do in order to liberate ourselves from the chains of capitalist wage-slavery.
With a clear understanding of the world and a solid organisation, the working class can overcome any obstacle. We do not have to accept the material and moral decadence of our times as inevitable.
A better world is possible. The way has been shown to us by the scientific study and practice of the great revolutionaries of our era: Marx, Engels and Lenin. When the workers take over society as the ruling class and organise production in a planned economy, without the need to pay tribute to a layer of bloodsucking parasites, we will have the means to provide a truly decent life for ourselves and our children – a life lived in security and peace, with dignity and rising prosperity for all.
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