On
Saturday 8th June, the working people of Britain will be
called to choose between two versions of bourgeois management: The
Conservative Party of Prime Minister Theresa May or the Labour Party
of Jeremy Corbyn? Despite their existing individual differences
regarding the mix of policies, both parties serve the capitalist
system. They are both thoroughly bourgeois parties, fully committed
to the goal of promoting the profits of the capitalists.
What
is at stake for Britain's bourgeois class on the June 8th
elections is the following: The terms upon which Brexit will take
place, so that the interests of the British monopolies will be served
in the best possible way. In any case, either with the Conservatives
or the Labour Party in the government, the country's bourgeoisie will
manage to safeguard her own interests.
The
working class of Britain have tasted both the two bitter choices of
the bourgeois political system. The communists of Britain- the real
communists, not the various opportunist charlatans- have enough
experience of the role that the Labour Party has played in the
country's political history. They certainly know how social democracy
disguises herself behind radical rhetoric and empty promises in order
to get the votes of the workers and the popular strata. The new
leadership of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn is no exception.
Mr. Corbyn, who poses as a “radical” and a “socialist”, is nothing but a political representative of social democracy. Like Tsipras in Greece, he uses radical left rhetoric (including socialist slogans) in order to foster illusions within the working class that another, supposedly “humane”, capitalism is possible. This is a very well known strategy of social democracy that always leads to the weakening of the class-based labor movement and the disillusionment of the working class.
Like
SYRIZA in Greece, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party consists the left
“reserve force” of capitalism. Despite their different
backgrounds, SYRIZA and the Labour Party foster illusions among the
people that there can be a better form of management of the
exploitative capitalist system, despite the dominance of the
monopolies. This is what social democracy does: exploits the pain and
agony of the people by offering an illusionary “radicalism”
within the “walls” of the system, inside the imperialist alliance
of the European Union.
Britain's
working class can draw valuable lessons and conclusions from the case
of SYRIZA in Greece. The
experience of the 2 years of SYRIZA’s governance demonstrates that
it did not want to nor was it able to prepare the people for a
confrontation against the austerity memorandums and the monopolies
precisely because it had no orientation for resistance and conflict.
On the contrary, SYRIZA deceived the people that it could pave the
way for pro-people changes inside the predatory alliance of the EU.
The
developments consist a very clear expression of the failure of the
so-called “governmental left” and of the theory that the EU can
change its monopolist and anti-people character.
The
communists, the marxists-leninists in Britain must not entrap
themselves in the thought that says “let's support Corbyn in order
to oust the Tories from the government”. The major problem is not
the manager of the system, but the system itself. Neither May nor
Corbyn- or any other bourgeois political leader- can offer actual
solutions to the problems of the working class, because these
problems are rooted in the capitalist way of production.
The
only solution for the working people of Britain lies in the creation
of a strong, class-based labor movement which will fight for the real
alternative to capitalist barbarity- for the socialist perspective
and people's power. The communist parties which are committed to the
principles of Marxism-Leninism have the duty to contribute to the
creation of a revolutionary strategy, far from trotskyite and
opportunist illusions.
With
all due respect to our comrades in Britain who ceaselessly fight for a better
future, we must say that: Be aware of social democracy bearing gifts.
No “left government” will ever satisfy the actual contemporary
needs of the working class.
The only change lies towards the creation
of a
social alliance in a direction that strengthens the
antimonopoly-anticapitalist struggle for workers’ power, the
construction of a society that does not have profit as its criterion
but the satisfaction of the expanding social needs, the socialist
society.
