A few lines I penned

The fight back against the entire system is the only fight that can offer a better future.

That’s right, all of it. The whole system, every aspect of the capitalist reality, economic, political social, all of it stands against us.

The challenge that faces us today is on two levels. On the first level, the daily reality of the capitalist crisis, the cuts, be they wage cuts, cuts in services however packaged, welfare cuts, hikes in exploitation, more for them, the capitalist class to keep up their stocks and shares their bonds and a constellation of impossible to decipher (for the outsider) financial tricks that keep the hundreds of millions rolling into the coffers of the best paid.

And on the second level, we face the struggle to respond to the crisis, a struggle which is blocked by a thousand and one political and Trade Union outfits preventing a real attack on the capitalist root cause of the economic nightmare unravelling every day.

Sure we need to combat every cut, every attempt to burden us with a crisis that we never caused, but unless we go beyond the individual issues, unless we put two and two together and come up with a class fight against capitalism, we are condemned to be on the losing end of a class war that capitalism has to fight to survive. Capitalism does not offer the possibility of a “fair” solution, no matter how much we struggle. Capitalism realises the profit it requires through exploiting us or it starts to fall to pieces, and we get mass unemployment. All the illusions have to be stripped away, the capitalist class have no choice but to cut our conditions, they cannot do otherwise. Capitalism without mass unemployment, without incrementing poverty, without a widening wealth divide, that is the fantasy that the capitalist left peddle to a working class who are ever more resistant to the idea that labour and the trade unions are with “us” against “them”.

The solution resides in one concept – escalation. It does not matter where struggles begin, either they spark off a massive revolt against all the attacks we face or they will be ground into the dust like the miners in fruitless isolation. Maybe the Trade Unions will cry victory when they get the bosses to reduce pay cuts and lay offs, but that is part of the game, the pay cuts and lay offs still happen. Perhaps a struggle will win, but all the time the working class as a whole is getting worse off, here and abroad, as the capitalist crisis only worsens, ensuring the future attacks.

Escalation without limits is our solution, the greater the escalation, the greater the lessons in self organisation for the whole class. No matter victory or, more likely, defeat, the real gain is the step towards the end of the system, the awareness that the entire system, root and branch is unfit for human consumption and has to be put down.Economic struggle beyond trade union limits of token days here and there, beyond trade limits of one section of the class on their own against the capitalist state, its legal teeth, applauded by the media of the rich, is only the start. The need is for a political fight back to bury this system which has only got worse to offer, globally, and threatens to bury all of us in a paupers’ grave.

There is but one, transparent solution, build the revolutionary party, root the idea of revolution in the working class and carry it out. The capitalist attacks cannot be voted out, bringing down this government will usher in a worse one, that’s all capitalism offers.

Building the Revolutionary Party is the task of today so revolution may be possible tomorrow, otherwise, the capitalist future is all we have, worse, worse and worse again, to the destruction of the environment, and humanity itself as the crisis and war escalate if we do not escalate our class war.