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The working class does not march in protest on May Day, but to declare our power to organise ourselves behind our own class ideology – scientific socialism.
We are not ‘speaking truth to power’ but asserting that we already have the power to overturn the tyranny of capital over labour. All that is lacking is the organisation needed to use it.
It is, of course, vital to oppose the destruction of the welfare state, the closure of factories, the slashing of benefits, the massacre of jobs, the freezing of wages, the undermining of pensions, the imposition of zero-hours contracts, the instigation of new wars and all the ‘austerity’ measures driven by the capitalist crisis.
Taking part in such struggles will help us to develop the organisational and political skills we need to secure victory in the bigger battle that lies ahead – the struggle to free ourselves from the capitalist system altogether.
But we will not acquire those essential skills if we cling to the illusion that protesting alone will ‘make a difference’. No amount of ‘pressure’ on MPs to sign Early Day Motions, signatures on e-petitions, or polite marches will ever persuadethe capitalist class to ‘see reason’ and change its ways.
The working class does not march in protest on May Day, but to declare our power to organise ourselves behind our own class ideology – scientific socialism.
We are not ‘speaking truth to power’ but asserting that we already have the power to overturn the tyranny of capital over labour. All that is lacking is the organisation needed to use it.
It is, of course, vital to oppose the destruction of the welfare state, the closure of factories, the slashing of benefits, the massacre of jobs, the freezing of wages, the undermining of pensions, the imposition of zero-hours contracts, the instigation of new wars and all the ‘austerity’ measures driven by the capitalist crisis.
Taking part in such struggles will help us to develop the organisational and political skills we need to secure victory in the bigger battle that lies ahead – the struggle to free ourselves from the capitalist system altogether.
But we will not acquire those essential skills if we cling to the illusion that protesting alone will ‘make a difference’. No amount of ‘pressure’ on MPs to sign Early Day Motions, signatures on e-petitions, or polite marches will ever persuadethe capitalist class to ‘see reason’ and change its ways.
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So, you are going to make the State rich and the people poor.