Building a Mass Movement for Change

This goes hand in hand with the Labour Party’s permanent campaign for the struggle against those who put profit before people.

John McDonnell last week called for 1 million people to take to the streets to campaign for the removal of Theresa May as Prime Minister, to “deepen the crisis for the Conservatives” and trigger a new General Election and the response form the right has been all too predictable.

Senior Labour MPs were reported in the right-wing press as saying that John McDonnell is acting undemocratically and irresponsibly by calling for mass action.

“Marxist Shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, true to his ideological roots, is set to show, in complete contempt for the democratic process by ignoring the election result, which returned the Tories as the party with the most seats, by calling upon militant unions and Labour’s new army of left-wing Trotskyite Entryists, who joined the party to support Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership bid, to take to the streets to over throw the government” is what they believe and fear.

But aside from all the scaremongering, let ’s be clear, there is nothing undemocratic about peaceful protests and the peaceful assembly of people who want their voices heard. In fact, it’s the most obvious and clear demonstration of democracy in action there is and not only that, the mass organisation of people is a requirement for change and the democratic evolution of society.

That’s why the right, hungry for power and control, are so against it. They don’t want people to meet to discuss politics, and share ideas for they fear those discussions and ideas will ferment into a potent programme for change.

The conservatives, the clue being in the name, are against the evolution of society, the don’t want change, they want the exact opposite of change, they want to extend into perpetuity the conditions that protect the role of capital and profit over people and consolidated the power of the few wealth and powerful dynasties that dominate public life and who control the media outlets that manage the conservative narrative.

The last thing they want is let the people get together and discuss these issues together for this by-passes the areas of society they control. This is why Theresa Mays wants to radically change the way information is shared via the internet, it’s an area of society where they can’t control the content and dictate the narrative, it’s, for the time being out of the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Truth.

Peaceful protests and demonstrating dissatisfaction and anger are, therefore essential. Make no mistake about it, an absence of mass movements working for change and a better society for all will result in further de-regulation and the rolling back of our labour rights and privileges, don’t forget David Cameron pledged to kill of health and safety culture! Under those conditions, an absence of people expressing their worries and concerns to put pressure on those in power and the presence of a government hell-bent on pushing the dominance of profit over people, will result in a world were Grenfell’s are common place, where people die at work because health and safety is no longer a corporate responsibility and where people who lose their jobs are left to destitution and homelessness.

So protest, meet other like minded people, either in person at organised events or online, and go out and peacefully show your dissatisfaction and anger, DON’T let anyone call you a rabble, a mob or riotous and ignore those that would repress your democratic right. For this will build start to movement for change that will roll across the UK and the rest of Europe like a tidal wave. The Times They are a Changing.

 

Just a quick one today, it’s fathers day and well, I have duties.