In addition to this, where is the necessary investment from
Osborne to kickstart our economy and help drive us out of recession? Simple it’s
not there. This country could be at the forefront of a green economic
revolution with more than 1 million jobs created in the green sector alone.
Personally I would like to see encouragement of public and co-operatively owned
businesses to lead this sector with the necessary investment and support coming
from the government. In addition to this I would like to see greater support
for small businesses and sole traders in general – ordinary people who are
trying to make a living in this country instead of gambling on the stock market
or driving wages to the bottom through hiring lower waged labour. I do
differentiate between good and unscrupulous employers in small businesses. Such
companies who are unscrupulous and keep wages down by exploiting their
workforce I feel deserve no support, as their loyalty is not to the country or
their workforce, but to their bank balance instead.
Moving on to Osborne’s attack on benefit claimants, which I
feel represents another giant leap towards Victorian conditions in this country.
This is all part of the neo-liberal plan to divide and destroy any solidarity
within working class communities. Their
aim is to stigmatise those on benefits and making conditions even harsher for
them. We cannot let Osborne and the capitalist class to destroy our communities
and we need to build greater solidarity within the working class in order to
defend ourselves against the purges of the government and its allies in the
mainstream media.
It is a fact, when people are desperate they will break the
law in order to survive or to support their families. It is a matter of
survival and I would challenge even the most law abiding citizen to challenge
this. Through this purge on benefits and the working class more and more people
are going to be forced into petty crime in order to survive. No doubt this will
be picked up upon by the ‘hang em and flog em’ brigade readers of the Mail and
the Express and other right wing papers who will claim crime is getting out of
control and call for stiffer penalties. This is why we need to defend working class
people and communities and those on benefits and point the blame at those who
are creating the economic and social conditions for crime. How can we totally
condemn those committing anti-social behaviour when all they can see before
them is a no hope society and a dog eat dog world.
Our message has to be to invest in both our economy and the people
and to oppose the capitalist divide and rule and social cleansing policies
wherever they are implemented. We have to expose the greed, self interest and
dog eat dog nature of the capitalist system not only to people in our
communities, but to those active in the wider labour movement. As those to
blame do not solely rest within the Tory party and their Lib-Dem buddies in the
coalition, but with the Labour leadership and careerists within the Labour Party,
Trade Unionists who have become so accustomed to their luxury lifestyles they
have detached themselves from the people they are supposed to represent, and
councillors who have been elected on an anti-cuts manifesto yet when in office
simply carry out the dirty work of the government. In our fight to overthrow
this rotten government and the capitalist system such people are nothing more
than the enemy within our own camp.
