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Vrijdag, 17 Oktober, 2008

Door Tony Benn |

Deze woorden zijn van het manifest van de Arbeid van 1945 onder ogen zien de Toekomst die briljant de zeer zelfde crisis identificeerde die nu als „kredietkraken“ wordt beschreven alsof het zuivere hiccup in een anders prachtige neo-liberal globalised wereld was die met een enorme subsidie van de belastingbetalers zou kunnen worden verbeterd om casino van Wall Street en zijn partners wereldwijd terug in winst te zetten. Het herinnerde me aan het feit dat toen de slavernij werd afgeschaft het de slaveneigenaars was, en niet de slaven, die compensatie van de overheid van de dag ontvingen.

Misschien belangrijker - en nooit vermeld in de media - is dat alle nieuws dat wij elke dag zijn geworden en elk uur allen over de bankiers is terwijl de voorzitters, de eerste ministers en andere verkozen leiders van de wereld tot de rol van zuivere commentators zijn verminderd die worden verondersteld om belastingbetalers' te leveren geld wanneer het nodig is om rijk op te kopen.

Op wat wij letten is namelijk niets minder dan de regelmatige overdracht van echte politieke macht van de opiniepeilingspost aan de markt en van de stemming aan de portefeuille - omkerend de democratische winsttendens die wij tijdens de laatste eeuw hebben gemaakt toen wij, meer en meer, onze stemmen konden gebruiken om onze economische toekomst gestalte te geven.

Ons gemaakt manifest van 1945 dat hierboven in de zeer volgende passage na het citaat ontruimt. Dit is wat het zei: De „natie wil voedsel, het werk en huizen. Het wil meer dan dat. Het wil goed voedsel in overvloed, het nuttige werk voor alle en comfortabele arbeidsbesparende huizen die volledig voordeel van de middelen van moderne wetenschap en de productieve industrie.“ nemen

Dat was het beleid dat Afgevaardigden van de Arbeid in macht in 1945 veegde en dit land de Nationale Gezondheidsdienst, de welzijnsstaat en een massief woningbouwprogramma gaf, door verkozen plaatselijk autoriteiten dat mogelijk wordt gemaakt die de middelen hadden van hen door de Schatkist die ter beschikking worden gesteld.

Nu, 63 later jaar, zijn wij achter onder ogen ziend een gelijkaardige situatie en wij moeten begrijpen waarom het is gebeurd als wij onze voorwaartse manier moeten zien.

Wij zijn verteld elke dag door de media dat wij ons geloof in de markt zouden moeten zetten en dat de verkozen overheden het probleem zijn en niet het antwoord en, om die reden, zich niet zou moeten mengen.

These ideas began to emerge in the political mainstream when Margaret Thatcher came to power and in 1994 “new” Labour adopted them as the basis of its own approach which explains why she once described “new” Labour as her “greatest achievement”.

Trade union rights are now more restricted than they were in 1906, wages have been held down and people have been advised to borrow and spend as an alternative – which explains why the stock market has fallen and locked more and more people into debt, which is a subtle form of slavery itself.

This is why so many people are frightened and frightened people can sometimes be persuaded to seek an answer by identifying an enemy who can be made a scapegoat for failure – as Hitler did when he blamed the Jews, the Communists and the trade unions for the mass unemployment in Germany and set up a fascist dictatorship which led to the Holocaust and war.

Hitler dealt with the unemployed by giving them jobs in the arms factories and the armed forces which led to the Second World War and the massive human cost it caused.

Whatever the left does it must never respond by splintering into a mass of tiny ideological sects forever fighting each other – for that way leads to failure, frustration and defeat.

This is the time for co-operation across the left to tackle the problems that face us on a non-sectarian basis as we have seen in the Stop the War Coalition, the campaigns for trade union rights, civil liberties, pensions, nuclear disarmament, council house building and a fair tax system – all of which require full trade union backing if they are to succeed.

If the economic situation gets worse, as it very well may, we have also to be on the look out for the “coalition” solution which could well be presented to us as the only way that these problems can be tackled, an argument that is being put forward now in America when George Bush, John McCain and Barack Obama rallied round to back the $700 billion bail-out that Wall Street demanded.

That same argument was used by Ramsay MacDonald in 1931 when he formed a National Government which nearly destroyed the Labour Party in the general election when only 51 Labour MPs survived and, without the courage of Ernie Bevin and the TUC, it might never have recovered, as it did in 1945.

I hope that the re-appointment of Peter Mandelson to the Cabinet in the latest reshuffle does not lead to that idea being re-floated as the best way to see us through the crisis for that could be the end of democracy – allowing the European Commission to prevent the re-emergence of public ownership and control of the banks which many will now see as the best way forward.

For the first time in my life, the public are to the left of a Labour government and common sense points us in a direction quite different from the one we have been following since 1979 when Thatcher set out to destroy the trade unions, cripple local authorities and privatise our public assets which we need now more than ever.

In 1945, the nation realised that the problems of peace required the same intensity of commitment as the problems of war.

And with the disastrous experience of Iraq and Afghanistan that argument, too, is beginning to register again and people are asking why we waste so much money on those illegal, brutal and unwinnable wars and on new nuclear weapons when people are losing their jobs and facing repossession of their homes.

The case for peace and socialism is intensely practical and, put like that, will command wide public and electoral support as it did then, in 1945, and could again do now.

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