X-Received: by 10.99.152.26 with SMTP id q26mr3949949pgd.66.1494499402344; Thu, 11 May 2017 03:43:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.82.15 with SMTP id e15mr232831oth.6.1494499402274; Thu, 11 May 2017 03:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.glorb.com!c26no661809itd.0!news-out.google.com!v18ni1703ita.0!nntp.google.com!c26no661799itd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: england.org.trade-union Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 03:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=212.139.98.74; posting-account=MtIABQoAAADve933m-HiUK1qhkheU8JK NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.139.98.74 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1a8b35a5-b02e-4105-9297-95fabffdbc78@googlegroups.com> Subject: Poverty pay threatens workers as inflation rises and the crisis of capitalism deepens! From: rab Injection-Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:43:22 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: csiph.com england.org.trade-union:3857 The News Line: Editorial Thursday, 11 May 2017=20 Poverty pay threatens workers as inflation rises and the crisis of capitali= sm deepens!=20 WORKERS=E2=80=99 wages will be slashed even more as inflation hits a peak o= f 3.4% this year, according to an analysis by the National Institute of Eco= nomic & Social Research. With public sector wages, including NHS staff, capped by the Tories at 1% a= nd wage increases for other workers generously estimated to rise by 2.7%, t= his rate of inflation represents a massive cut in the disposable income of = every worker in the country. These figures of course do not take into account the millions who will not = receive any pay rise at all =E2=80=93 the so-called =E2=80=98self employed= =E2=80=99 and those on zero-hours contracts. With the privatised energy com= panies driving up bills by about 10%, councils imposing massive increases i= n council tax in a desperate effort to make up for the cuts imposed upon th= em by the Tories, along with dramatic increases in the price of essentials,= household budgets will be stretched to breaking point. Already low-paid workers like nurses are being forced to rely on the charit= y of food banks because their wages simply won=E2=80=99t cover living and f= ood costs. A future of mass poverty and quite literally starvation is all t= hat capitalism holds for the working class, as the bankers insist that pay-= cutting caps on wages, along with the destruction of spending on the welfar= e state, are absolutely necessary to bring down the massive state debt run = up by government sponsored bail outs of the bankrupt banks following the ec= onomic crash of 2008. This makes a complete mockery of the claims by Labour Party leader, Jeremy = Corbyn, that the only problem with capitalism is that it is =E2=80=98rigged= =E2=80=99 by the Tories in favour of the rich and that a Labour government = could somehow un-rig the system. The entire capitalist system is run for the benefit of the capitalist class= and no other class. The only future for the working class is in the overth= row of capitalism and advancing to a socialist society. This is a step that Corbyn is not prepared to make. His speech this week op= ening Labour=E2=80=99s election campaign deliberately omitted any reference= to socialism and instead simply called for capitalism to be made fairer. Corbyn=E2=80=99s desire not to alienate the right-wing of the Labour Party = with talk of socialism was evident again during an interview with the BBC w= hen he refused six times to give a straight answer to the question whether = a Labour government would definitely obey the overwhelming vote by workers = to leave the EU. Instead, he prevaricated wildly, saying: =E2=80=98Look there=E2=80=99s a cl= ear vote in the referendum a year ago. But there is now the negotiations wh= ich have already begun.=E2=80=99 Corbyn=E2=80=99s prevarication is aimed at= appeasing the Labour Party right-wing who are determined at all costs to k= eep British capitalism tied to the wreckage of the bosses=E2=80=99 and bank= ers=E2=80=99 EU, despite the EU referendum result. This same right-wing cannot be appeased, and made its own intervention in t= he election yesterday by leaking to the Daily Telegraph that 100 Labour MPs= are preparing to resign if Labour loses the election, split the party and = form a new =E2=80=98progressive=E2=80=99 party. If they cannot run the Labo= ur Party they prefer to destroy it. They want to form an anti-working class coalition with the Tories and Liber= als to organise to smash all of the gains of the working class to save bank= rupt British capitalism. Ever since his election, Corbyn has done everythin= g possible to appease the Labour right-wing and every retreat by him has on= ly led to them increasing their demands for a ditching of even a verbal com= mitment to socialism. Now the crunch has come. Only by fighting on an openly socialist programme of expropriating the boss= es and bankers to make them pay for the crisis of their system can the Labo= ur Party win this election. Pathetic calls for fairness while workers face = seeing their lives being destroyed by capitalism will only turn workers awa= y in disgust. Only the WRP is standing in this election on a clear programme of fighting = for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism through the expropriation of = the bosses and bankers and going forward to socialism. We call on workers a= nd youth to vote Labour on June 8th to kick out the Tories and in the five = constituencies where we are standing to vote WRP and for socialist revoluti= on in the UK, and throughout Europe and the USA!=20 https://www.wrp.org.uk/news/13231