Socialism: it's a crazy idea, but it might just work.
The establishment of a system of society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of producing and distributing wealth by and in the interests of all.
Imagine that! Poverty could be a thing of the past. Of course you couldn't be a multi-billionaire, but who needs more money than can be spent in a lifetime anyway?
You could stop worrying about the damage that we are doing to the earth because we wouldn't create things, baubles and trinkets, purely for profit.
It would mean the end of having to vote for the likes of the PR men, the Tony Blair's and the David Cameron's who are just spokesmen for multi-national coperations, who in turn are just sucking all the wealth up, making us all miserable in the process and ruining the planet by their greed. But who would miss that? Who actually likes to see oil tankers shed millions of gallons of crude into the sea, or striking South African Coal Miners gunned down for daring to question health and safety conditions while mine owners rake in enormous profits while workers die.
Socialism: making life fair again.
Thursday, 30 July 2015
Friday, 24 July 2015
first meeting with the Socialist Workers Party.
23/07/2015. Socialist Workers Party, Friends Meeting House, Manchester 7pm.
First meeting with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Didn't know what to expect as growing up the media have tended to protray socialist in a negative light. Striking miners and the loony left. But I met a group of ordinary people who just want to make the world a better place. They do this by educating themselves, organising actions against unfairness and inhumanity and consider how to draw together others who are being abused by the capitalist system. Education tonight concerned the current water rate protests in Ireland and linked this to the recent vote to allow gay people to get married.
Other than attending as many protest marches and rallies against austerity and cuts to public spending, I haven't really been much of an activist. However, be in the right place at the right time, and opportunities will arise. Voluntees were needed to 'leaflet' workers under threat from the capitalist machine and I offered. It's only later, after saying 'I can do that', that I consider what I might be getting myself into. Someone isn't going to like this, me telling workers that their boss is greedy bully and that they should stand up to the boss and tell him that they are not going to take this anymore. Ah well, I believe I'm doing the right thing. Capitalism creates poverty and inequality. Its not fair.
First meeting with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Didn't know what to expect as growing up the media have tended to protray socialist in a negative light. Striking miners and the loony left. But I met a group of ordinary people who just want to make the world a better place. They do this by educating themselves, organising actions against unfairness and inhumanity and consider how to draw together others who are being abused by the capitalist system. Education tonight concerned the current water rate protests in Ireland and linked this to the recent vote to allow gay people to get married.
Other than attending as many protest marches and rallies against austerity and cuts to public spending, I haven't really been much of an activist. However, be in the right place at the right time, and opportunities will arise. Voluntees were needed to 'leaflet' workers under threat from the capitalist machine and I offered. It's only later, after saying 'I can do that', that I consider what I might be getting myself into. Someone isn't going to like this, me telling workers that their boss is greedy bully and that they should stand up to the boss and tell him that they are not going to take this anymore. Ah well, I believe I'm doing the right thing. Capitalism creates poverty and inequality. Its not fair.
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