Capitalism has NO FUTURE!

There is no hiding the fact that the crisis that is out in the open everywhere has been building up for decades. Under governments of the left and right, all around the globe, the working class has become ever less well off, with ever more of us falling into the stagnant pit of low wages, unemployment, poverty and despair, as the wealth of the elite doubles and triples, protected by government bailouts we are supposed to pay.

But the drunken orgy of the rich has ended in a global disaster of a colossal scale, with even the governing politicians admitting that “we now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war” (Vince Cable), trouble is, it’s we who weren’t invited to the party who are expected to suffer the hangover. About a million young people are rotting without job, education or prospect of a future. Child poverty is massively up; A growing number of children in the UK are living in extreme poverty because of huge increases in the cost of energy, petrol and food, according to a leading charity. Save the Children says the figure has risen to 1.6 million, with 290,000 in London.

Whilst at the same time as babes face extreme poverty, the young are rioting out of frustration and the working class here and everywhere are being ever more cheated in terms of wages, benefits, healthcare education, i.e. everything, the rich have never been better off. Up to date figures that embarrass the well-off tend to be hard to come by, but in the UK; The poorest tenth of the population now have, between them, 1.3% of the country's total income and the second poorest tenth have 4%. In contrast, the richest tenth have 31% and the second richest tenth have 15%. The income of the richest tenth is more than the income of all those on below-average incomes (i.e. the bottom five tenths) combined.. poverty.org.uk. And of course the ferocious cuts will only make it worse, no matter what the political lackeys of the rich may try to spin to anaesthetize the working class who will suffer.

PARLIAMENT AND TRADE UNIONS -GUILTY

Our pain and their gross wealth and power, a social disaster which can only deepen, depends on us the working class accepting that there is no alternative, the system has to be saved and if it means sacrificing our own and future generations, so be it. All the parliamentary parties subscribe to the capitalist system that inevitably produced this disaster; they all prescribe the same dose of mass misery, however packaged, to preserve the system of the wealthy, the trade union bureaucrats, the top people born into the top families, i.e. the rich who finance the only parties who have a chance at Parliamentary power. Let’s face it; this fake democracy can only produce government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. At best we will hear concerned voices and vague plans to make everything all right years from now, but the reality of this system is obvious – obsolete capitalism makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.

And if anyone is naïve enough to think that the TUC will mount an effective defense, never mind contribute to a different society, well we’ve had over three decades of declining strike action, £100 billion in spending cuts and thousands of job losses, including more than 110,000 in the public sector in the past three months. Utterly ineffectual single days of action and walks from A to B are presented by the capitalist media as the height of radical opposition, but the working class has largely left them to die as obsolete remnants of a past when capitalism could offer better conditions which no longer has any relevance. In 2009, 23.5 % of the total UK workforce belonged to a trade union, now less than 20%. with private sector membership under 12%. Youth membership of the trade unions is vanishing. Their divisive sectarianism, fake resistance, acceptance of the capitalist agenda and promotion of anti-working class political parties has no use for workers faced with a capitalism which must attack the class on every front to survive.

THE ALTERNATIVE IS ANTI-CAPITALIST!

Long story short, it’s been getting worse for years, the entire system is guilty, left/right parties who inflict the anti- working class policies and their union collaborators (and TU supporters in the so-called revolutionary movement) who prevent a real fightback, and there is only a prospect into ever greater crisis to look forward to unless workers reject the lies of all in it together with the super rich….Tories Out only means Labour in, the union bureaucrats are more concerned about their own inflated wages and pensions than the dwindling membership, but we cannot afford to let the crisis run on and on at our expense.

There is an alternative. Capitalism must be put down. It’s the only humane thing to do. It cannot be done through Unions and Parliament; the weapons of class struggle are growing urgently necessary.

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