A Future That Works

The next key mobilisation date for the movement,the resistance is the TUC(trades Union Congress) March for  a Future hat Works on 20th October 2012.As i write that is less than a calendar month away.I don't have any illusions that this will solve anything by itself but it does provide a hook on which to build.

The TUC flyer for it leaves a lot to be desired but  then again the campaigns,the ctruggles,the organisations of trades unionists,socialists,anti-capitalists,anarchists-indeed anyone can produce their own material which could be more inspiring.

The slogan is quite useful and "A Future That Works"sparks off lots of resonances,which are not just about work,employment,wages and ensions-although those issues are important enough.

We live in times when although the regime has some control,it does not and in my opinion has never had legitimacy.I have taken the view from the time of the last election that there is no legitimate government.Given the ballot for these elections are suppossed to be secret(and you can believe that if you like,because i never have)it is difficult to read off any particular"message"from that election.We can only make guesses.My guess is that the electorate were telling politicians that none of them were acceptable,and created a conundrum for them to resolve.Brown and the labour party walked away,which for me is indicative of their attitude ever since-and i never did have much(any?)confidence in them.

The con-dems then conducted negotiations ot come up with an agreement to rule which bore little or no relationship to any manifesto.They then presented themselves as a government.I would say,however,that unlike previous coalitions,this gang have never obtained a mandate from anyone.I'm not aware of any other co-alition which laid out its plans after an election.I may be on my own but i will not acknowledge thatthey have any legitimacy.That said,no-one ever argues the point with me.

Since they "took power",they have done nothing bu break pledges and mount and ideologically driven attack quite openly and blatantly on OUR  class.It has no rational justification whatsoever.I feel we need to continuously reject their politics and what passes for their ideas.

We dont just need to fight their cuts;and throw back their crisis and their austerity onto their class,not OURS,but we have to argue and fight for a future that we WANT and that meets our NEEDS.Nothing less is good enough.

Whilst i am aware that the (dominant)ideas in a class-society are those of the dominant class,it is possible to hold different.other ideas.We can have different ideas-but just as it is a struggle to maintain and develop the physical,material conditions that we live in,so there is also a struggle for ideas.Both struggles occur at a variety of levels and it is an uneven and a difficult process.Their class,the class that claim they rulle over us,and impose that rule-for the present-establish circumstances which make it easy for themselves.Sometimes they appear to create fair conditions-the proverbial"even playing field",although rationally,objectively it is not that way.It includes valuations and evaluations that are subtly or not so subtly tilted their way.

And yet......

It is only us that can make"A Future That Works".After all whilst THEY might issue the commands,it is US who not only do the work but make the world,they they always claim is theirs.We need to reclaim our energy,our  ideas,our experience,our labour,our imagination-our lives.We indeed,have a new world to build!

http://afuturethatworks.org/