LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call a snap general election for early November.
He thinks that if he wins he will be able to make a claim that he has a mandate for the anti-working class wage cutting and privatisation policies that he will have to intensify as the economic crisis worsens in the period ahead.
This is held to be essential by the Brown cabal. An unelected prime minister will have great difficulty claiming that he has a mandate for making huge wage cuts and job cuts, as well as for the expanding of his ‘government of all the talents’ into a national government, by bringing more Tories into it as the crisis deepens.
However, the anger with which his Thatcherite policy of propping up the banks while privatising health and education have been greeted by the working class, indicates that he will face a working class boycott of a large number of Labour candidates, and possible defeat.
The Tories are just as uncertain as Brown.
In fact, the bourgeois media depicted Cameron’s ‘rousing and unscripted’ speech at the Tory party conference as an attempt to frighten Brown away from calling an election, so as to give the Tories another year of time to prepare.
From this we can only conclude that Brown is very easily frightened, while the past 10 years in opposition has not been a long enough time for the Tories to overcome the popular hatred of Thatcherism and their party that the Poll Tax and Black Wednesday 1992 created.
Both parties are bankrupt.
Brown has betrayed the trade unions and the working class, to become the bankers’ man, while no amount of reinvention can make the revolting bankers and bosses party, the Tories, look any better.
In fact ‘Super Green’ Cameron in his hour-long speech indicated that a bigger British army, and tax cuts all round, were going to be paid for by traditional Tory means, by fiercely attacking the benefits of the sick and the poor, reminding us that despite green adjustments, this is the same Cameron who was the Tory adviser to Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, at the time of Black Wednesday, when their super high interest rates ruined millions of homeowners.
The Workers Revolutionary Party will stand a number of candidates at the next general election, where we will fight for socialist policies and the building of a revolutionary leadership to lead the British socialist revolution.
Where we are not standing, we will call on the working class to vote Labour to keep the Tories out.
We will also demand that the Labour movement and the trade unions organise a general strike to defend the jobs, the wages and the basic rights of the working class in Britain, as well as to achieve the withdrawal of all British troops from the Gulf and the Middle East – whichever party takes office.
Capitalism is going into its most desperate economic and political crisis ever.
The bosses and bankers know only one way out of it. That is to unload the whole burden of the crisis onto the working class and the middle class.
The bankers will be propped up by the state pouring cash into their vaults, which the state will obtain through a class war on the working class and the middle class.
The only way out of this crisis for the working class and the middle class is through building up the revolutionary leadership of the WRP and the Young Socialists to organise the British socialist revolution to expropriate the bankers and the bosses, and to bring in a planned socialist economy in place of the anarchy of capitalist production and the oppression of the banks and the bankers.