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Our Aim: Our Method For a Solidarity workers’ government For social ownership of the banks and industry No 339 8 October 2014 30p/80p www.workersliberty.org Our aim: END LOW PAY See page 5 Our method: INDUSTRIAL ACTION March with TUC 18 October • Britain needs a pay rise! 2 NEWS What is the Alliance Rousseff wins first round in for Workers’ Liberty? Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to another, the capitalist class, which owns the means of production. Brazil’s elections Society is shaped by the capitalists’ relentless drive to increase their wealth. Capitalism causes poverty, unemployment, the By Raquel Palmeira as the others”. Many trade blighting of lives by overwork, imperialism, the unions actively campaigned destruction of the environment and much else. In the first round of the Against the accumulated wealth and power of the against Neves, implicitly Brazilian presidential elec - calling for a vote for Rouss - capitalists, the working class has one weapon: tions the incumbent Dilma eff as a less bad option. solidarity. Rousseff (Workers Party) The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty aims to build Rousseff has a history of took 41.1% of the vote solidarity through struggle so that the working class can overthrow ahead of Aecio Neves some dialogue with the capitalism. We want socialist revolution: collective ownership of labour movement. industry and services, workers’ control and a democracy much fuller (pro-business social-dem - ocratic party) on 34.2%. Neves represents a neolib - than the present system, with elected representatives recallable at any eral agenda, and has called time and an end to bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges. We fight for the labour movement to break with “social partnership” They will now face each for new laws to curb the and assert working-class interests militantly against the bosses. other in a second round of rights of unions. Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, voting on 26 October. Neves is anti-choice and supporting workers’ struggles, producing workplace bulletins, helping Socialist Party candidate anti-same-sex marriage. organise rank-and-file groups. Marina Silva got only 21.3%. However, despite Rousseff We are also active among students and in many campaigns and This is surprising, as Silva Most expected a run off between Silva and Rousseff having a history of being alliances. had been favourite to win at more pro-choice and for one point. However it is un - marriage equality, she has We stand for: usual for a candidate to her “new politics”, which maintain votes. Many peo - not taken up these issues Independent working-class representation in politics. come close to challenging ● while having a large green ple demanding political during this election cam - ● A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the labour the two main parties. and anti-corruption element, change ended up being po - paign. movement. Protests in June and July pandered to both left and larised into the usual camps She has stayed quiet in ● A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, to strike, to expressed growing disillu - right. Silva is contradictory, and therefore voting for ei - order to pacify and pander picket effectively, and to take solidarity action. sionment with the main two changing her platform to fit ther Rousseff or Neves. to the church organisa - ● Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, education parties. Many talked about who she’s talking to. That’s Rousseff is regarded by tions backing her candi - and jobs for all. not voting for either. Silva why she found it difficult to many as “bad but not as bad dacy. ● A workers’ movement that fights all forms of oppression. Full gathered supporters with equality for women and social provision to free women from the burden of housework. Free abortion on request. Full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Black and white workers’ unity FREE SHAHROKH ZAMANI against racism. ● Open borders. AND REZA SHAHABI! ● Global solidarity against global capital — workers everywhere have more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist rulers. ● Democracy at every level of society, from the smallest workplace or community to global social organisation. ● Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal rights for all nations, against imperialists and predators big and small. Jailed for fighting for workers’ rights in Iran. ● Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate. ● If you agree with us, please take some copies of Solidarity to sell — Trade unionism should not be a crime! and join us! http://chn.ge/1vMfS9F Contact us: ● 020 7394 8923 ● [email protected] The editor (Cathy Nugent), 20e Tower Workshops, Riley Student rent up by 5% Road, London, SE1 3DG. ● Printed by Trinity Mirror By Omar Raii rooms in nearby Pentonville Prison are likely to be nicer. At University College Lon - HSBC (not known for its don students face con - caring attitude towards stu - Get Solidarity every week! stant increases in rent. dents) recently accused UCL ● Trial sub, 6 issues £5 of having the priciest halls o The average rise of a basic These homes need people! ● 22 issues (six months). £18 waged in the country, with an aver - o room at UCL accommoda - age room costing £157 a £9 unwaged tion has gone up by 5% Activists from the Focus E15 housing campaign who o week. For comparison, the occupied an empty flat on the Carpenters estate have now since last year (higher than ● 44 issues (year). £35 waged o cost of a standard room at ended the occupation. Earlier this week they won a fight inflation!) while student £17 unwaged o nearby King’s College Lon - against forced eviction from the flats. As they left they loans have gone up by a don is £127.50. ● European rate: 28 euros (22 issues) o published photos of the good condition these homes are in. measly 1%. This year however, stu - As social tenants are forcibly moved out of London, these or 50 euros (44 issues) o Though increased mar - dents are organising a fight flats stand empty. The campaign will continue. Tick as appropriate above and send your money to: ketisation of universities back. The first step will be a across the country is ensur - 20e Tower Workshops, Riley Road, London, SE1 3DG motion to the student union ing university halls are be - General Assembly to de - Tory plan to scrap Human Cheques (£) to “AWL”. coming more and more mand that UCL lower its Or make £ and euro payments at workersliberty.org/sub. expensive everywhere, UCL rents and commit to no seems to have a particular above-inflation rises in rents Rights Act Name . problem with giving its stu - year by year. dents decent and affordable If UCL continues to ig - At Tory Party conference which may effect their in - Address . rooms to live in. nore students’ welfare then Cameron pledged to repeal tentions to tighten up anti- A year ago, upon its com - activists should argue for the Human Rights Act and terror laws, and to do some change Britain’s relationship political posturing to win . pletion, UCL’s newest hall and plan an organised stu - with the European Court of over UKIP voters. (appropriately named New dent rent strike. I enclose £ . Students will only be Human Rights. Hall) was voted the worst able to stand these ab - The Tories wish to avoid • Full article: new building in Britain, surd rents for so long. “inconvenient rulings” bit.ly/1EpUbQD with many commenting that 3 NEWS Next steps in Hong Kong By Chen Ying in Hong water and food to be let nesses, probably eroding the to work. The numbers sur - Kong through the cordon of pro - income of the triads’ protec - rounding the Chief Execu - testers to reach those police tion rackets as well. tive’s office reduced to a The protest movement in officers on duty inside the On 4 October, while the token presence. Talks about Hong Kong has been besieged building. government denied claims talks continued between stu - forced to retreat in the Leung refused to resign, of any collusion with triad dent leaders and govern - face of orchestrated vio - but appointed his deputy to gangs, and while university ment negotiators. Secondary lent attacks by Beijing- meet with student leaders. leaders urged students to schools reopened in the funded triad gangs, with In response, on 3 October, disperse to avoid bloodshed, Central and Wanchai dis - the complicity of the po - Leung and the local pro-Bei - the Federation of Students, tricts. lice force. jing forces counter-attacked. Scholarism and the Occupy The Occupy Central lead - Hordes of burly men Central leaders held a defi - ers’ stance throughout is Pro-China thugs attacked occupiers The gangs began their at - wearing blue ribbons — ant anti-violence rally in Ad - based on the model of non- tack in Mong Kok, a high symbolising support for the miralty, albeit with a much violent mass civil disobedi - place strikes to support Such a campaign should density urban working class police — waded into the smaller crowd of several ence as practised by Gandhi them. fight for; the resignation of district with a high concen - protestors in Mong Kok, thousand. and Martin Luther King. Given the intransigence of the Chief Executive; calling tration of organized crime. with very few police on However the government the government, with clear to account those responsible The spontaneous occupa - duty. Videos widely circu - THUGS has avoided arresting the backing by Beijing, the mass for instigating violent at - tion of Mong Kok on 29 Sep - lated in Hong Kong showed The Federation of Stu - leaders to make them mar - movement is lacking the po - tacks; legislative councillors tember — in response to the police arresting some of the dents, having refused talks tyrs, but outmanoeuvred litical leadership to maintain to vote against the adoption deployment of teargas — thugs but releasing them al - on 3 October, decided to them with greater tactical the pressure to force the of the electoral package pro - was initially hugely success - most as soon as they were meet with government ne - skill.
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