Back to main newsCommunists prepare to build a movement - That movement must fight to halt the cuts, resist closures and demand that the government intervenes to rebuild the productive economy
Mon 18 Jan 2010
Author: Communist Party international secretary John Foster has warned the party's executive of the importance of developing a mass movement around the People's Charter.
That movement must fight to halt the cuts, resist closures and demand that the government intervenes to rebuild the productive economy, he insisted.
"The call for a Labour victory and the defeat of the Tories must be combined with the development of a trade union-led mass movement. It's banking speculation that caused the crisis, not public spending.
"It's a class issue and Labour must be what it was founded to do, defend the interests of the 90 per cent of the population who sell their labour power," Mr Foster declared.
The committee commended the speed and scale of the rescue missions launched by Cuba, Venezuela and China to assist the people of Haiti.
It also highlighted the failure to secure a binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions at Copenhagen and the threat that this poses to the world's poorest and most exploited people.
Mr Foster urged that efforts should now be directed to secure a binding agreement in Mexico in December.
Britain's Communists expressed their support for the working people of Iceland and all those across the EU who are refusing to bow to the bankers' demands that the financial crisis be resolved at the expense of jobs and living standards.
The executive also welcomed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights to rule the invasion of Iraq as illegal, but warned of the threat to wider civil liberties posed by the banning of Islam4UK and the holding of the first non-jury trial.
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