A New Vauxhall
Vauxhall has always voted Labour – no one can remember the last time we voted any other way. But what have we got in return?
Labour has forgotten the working class communities in “safe seats” like this. They take us for granted to come out and vote for them time and again.
- 51 per cent of children in Vauxhall are in poverty – that’s 1 in 2 and ten per cent more than the average across the rest of poverty-stricken London
- 36 per cent of all homes in Vauxhall are below the decency threshold for housing provision.
An Anticapitalist vote for Jeremy Drinkall is a vote for a new Vauxhall – a Vauxhall for the working class, not the rich.
- Provide the unemployed of Vauxhall with training and jobs, repairing and improving our homes
- Scrap rent rises, scrap council tax – tax the rich, not the poor
- End the scandal of the housing waiting lists – for a million new council houses.
One Solution – Revolution!
The Anticapitalists are standing for parliament as a way of building up working class resistance to the system.
If elected, Jeremy Drinkall will use parliament as a platform to speak out for the exploited and the oppressed.
He will support workers striking against real pay cuts – he will call on workers to show solidarity with every struggle. He will encourage workers facing job cuts to occupy their workplaces; he will expose racist police; he will vote against wars and use his position to mobilise thousands in mass demonstrations.
But Jeremy recognises that, even if parliament was chock full of working class people like him, the capitalists would still hold on to their power.
Because real power is outside parliament. It’s in the boardroom, where unelected executives decide who gets thrown out of work, who will eat and who will starve.
It’s in the top layers of the intelligence services, like MI5 and MI6, who decide when and where we go to war, who fit up enemies of the system and who spread propaganda in support of the bosses’ system.
It’s with the faceless civil servants in Whitehall, who shadow every government minister and who carry on governing no matter who wins the election.
It’s with the top ranks of the Army, who swear loyalty not to the people but to the Queen, and who would quickly use force to try and put down any attempt by the working class majority to change things for the better.
In the whole history of capitalism over the last 200 years, whenever the working class has elected a government that wants to improve things, the bosses use their power outside parliament – especially the army and police – to take over and impose what they want anyway.
Does that mean things can never change? Not at all! It means that to take the power and the wealth from the capitalists, we will need to make a revolution.
It can be done because the working class is the overwhelming majority in society. With a party of own, we could link up our strikes and struggles against the crisis and create councils of action in every town and city based on democratically elected delegates from every workplace and every estate. Our delegates could be recallable so they always reflected what the working class who voted for them want.
And they could organise to take the power away from the capitalists by force –breaking up the capitalists’ repressive army and police and replacing it with the rule of the workers’ councils themselves. We can minimise violence, but only by preparing to defend our revolution and to meet fire with fire.
This would be a new type of government – a workers’ government, based not on the might of the bureaucracy of the state, but on democratic councils that really represented working class people. Unlike the system today, when we vote every four years for a representative who can break her promises but still keep her position, our working class democracy would be based on recallable delegates so the will of the people could really shape decisions.
Then we could take the big corporations into the hands of the working class and create a planned economy, using computers and information technology to allow ordinary people access to a process of matching what we can produce to what we need, sharing out the work by reducing the working week as much as possible, and eliminating poverty and inequality.
A revolution of the working class in Britain would be a beacon of light to all those internationally suffering under the pain and hardship of capitalism. Workers in other countries would soon follow our example – especially when we cancelled Third World debts to British banks and handed the resources of British owned companies abroad over to their workers.
We live in a time when the global financial system came close to the point of complete collapse. Hard times are ahead and all over the world workers are resisting the capitalists’ attempt to make us pay for the crisis.
Why not take part in the fight to build a new party that fights for socialism and a real future for humanity?
That’s what the ANTICAPITALISTS stand for. Vote for us in the General Election in Vauxhall – and join us!