Why Labour is the future of Britain

The masses always move through their traditional organisations, mainly the trade unions and the parties built upon that movement, the Labour and Social-Democratic parties of the world. This will remain true no matter how distant and deranged the leadership becomes, the working class will eventually always take back its rightful place in its movement, and the bureaucrats and politicians will have no choice but to go along with the situation, if only to save their own skin!

The Labour Party of the Great Britain (let us remember that the Labour Party does not contest elections in the North of Ireland, instead instructing their supporters to vote for the nationalist Social Democratic Labour Party) has changed unrecognisably since the days of Callaghan and McMillan, the days of working class struggles and a party based on the founding of a truly equitable and prosperous society has all but disappeared, in its place a race to the bottom for greed and political gain.

The Labour Party of today is a pro-business, Keynesian caricature of its former self. Where as once the backbenchers of the Labour ranks could be proud of fighting for a better future for their country, they now must suffice with providing a better future for the bankers. The ideological gap between the Conservatives and Labour has never felt so tight, as they compete to out-manouver the other in who can rescue the economy best, always at the tax payers expense and always to their detriment.

In social policy they are not much farther apart. Both Labour and Conservatives support the attacks on civil rights that have become a normal part of existence in Britain, they equally support the attacks on those on incapacity benefit and those out of work. Neither offers any way out to for the education débâcle, and the Minister and Shadow ministers for Immigration seem to be competing to see who can be most xenophobic and fear mongering in their rhetoric.

And yet for all of its faults, Labour remains based on the trade unions for its very existence, and that in itself shows enormous potential for change in the future. The trade unions, their members, perhaps even their leadership, will become more and more militant as the austerity measures of the coming period are unleashed upon the working class. The trade unions will in turn influence Labour Party policy and decisions, and we may see, on a day not so soon from now, that the famed Clause IV is reinstated and Labour is again a party worth its name.