THERE HAS TO BE AN ALTERNATIVE
Surely, the way we live now is not the best
of which our species is capable. We don’t have to turn on the ‘news’ to hear of
wars and rumours of wars. Accumulations
of wealth deliver impoverishment. Daily life imposes immiserisation, for
example, time-poverty among the well-off. Corporations are intensifying their
plunder of nature. In the process, they are fouling our nest with pollution and
garbage. Surveillance by governments and
corporations threatens our ability to fight back on every issue.
Every one of us has some awareness of these
facts. After all, we endure their effects everyday.
The political tasks are threefold: 1. bring
the local and the global together; 2. link awareness into action; 3. understand
how and why the entire system can and should be replaced. An independent
working-class agenda is but one contribution towards an action programme.
Let’s start by thinking from scratch about
where most of our lives are much of the time: what are the issues that we have
to grapple with throughout every day?...... read more
The "five pillars",
on which we need to build a solid understanding of current situation, a
vision for the future, and thus a connection with everyday people, are:
Work
Health
Education
Housing
Transport
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