A World to Win

If ever a government could make out a case for its own demise, then New Labour has done its best. This autocratic, corrupt regime has in just a single week:

facilitated an illegal Israeli attack on a prison in occupied Palestine, resulting in the deaths of several people and the humiliation of the Palestinian president
ignored an official report by the Parliamentary Ombudsman into government lies over pensions, showing its contempt for any investigation into its affairs by parliament
covered up a loans-for-honours scandal, in which rich businessmen were promised seats in the House of Lords in return for cash
allowed the head of the Metopolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, to stay in post despite his secret recording of private telephone conversations
pushed through an Education Bill that encourages the business take-over of schools by relying on the votes of the Tory Party
once again forced through plans for compulsory ID cards, while claiming to the amazement of all that they are voluntary.

You have to ask – what is the purpose of having New Labour in office? It certainly can’t be because the Tories would be worse, especially since, as a result of the vote on the Education Bill, we have a coalition government in all but name.

Add in New Labour’s lies over the invasion and occuption of Iraq, its construction of a police-surveillance state, and its constant attacks on human and social rights and you arrive at only one conclusion – this lot have to go!

If you still have doubts, read The Independent’s chilling account (March 16) of how two British Muslims, who agreed to work for MI5, ended up in Guantanamo, handed over to the Americans by the British government after they were seized in Africa. The government has subsequently refused to allow the MI5 agents to testify on the men’s behalf, condemning the two to indefinite imprisonment and torture by US forces.

New Labour is the government of choice for global business. So we should not be surprised that they exhibit all the characteristics of naked capitalism – greed, hunger for wealth and property, corruption and sheer skulduggery. The state institutions it presides over are reduced to promoting the interests of business and finance at the expense of the needs of ordinary people.

A World to Win argued at its human and social rights conference on March 11 that the system of parliamentary democracy, which evolved in over 200 years of struggle in Britain, is impotent in the face of the onslaught from the executive and global capital. We have presented a case for a new political and economic democracy and urge you to join in the struggle to achieve it.

16 March 2006