CAMERON FAVOURS NEW ANTI-UNION LAWS
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CAMERON FAVOURS NEW ANTI-UNION LAWS
LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that
if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the anti-
union laws, to illegalise strike actions in the public sector against
the government’s policy to freeze wages for a year.
He added for good measure that, ‘The trade union measures that were
passed in the 1980s have withstood the test of time,’ and that, ‘If
ever they needed to be strengthened I would be very happy to
strengthen them.’
Trade unions were built by workers to engage in the fight for more
wages, so that workers and their families could enjoy a decent
standard of living instead of the poverty and degradation that
preceded the founding of trade unions.
The only response to illegalising trade unions in the public or any
other sector from fighting for wage rises – especially after workers
have supplied £1.2 trillion of gifts, loans and guarantees to save the
bankers from the economic crisis that they have created – is a general
strike.
That Cameron is willing to ignite such a struggle once again shows the
depth of the crisis of capitalism and spells out that unless
capitalism is confined to the dustbin of history, the working class
and the middle class are going to pay a desperate price for its
continued existence.
In fact, Cameron is advocating class war and a society made for the
cutthroat ruthless entrepreneur.
On Sunday, speaking on the Andrew Marr show on the BBC, Cameron said
it was wrong to believe public spending would pull the country out of
recession. After all he is to make savage cuts!
What passes for economic development is going to take place led by
ruthless employers, with the powers of the state at their disposal.
Cameron declared: ‘We are going to get out of this recession by making
this one of the fastest places in the world to start up a new
business.’
He advocated the backstreet capitalism of Charles Dickens. Cameron is
to lift the insolvency threshold from £750 to £2,000 to protect small
businesses, and prevent them from going bust, adding that ‘a huge
number’ of businesses were started in people’s homes but many social
landlords prevented tenants from running firms in their property.
Cameron pledged: ‘We are going to change that.’
His way out of the crisis is through new anti-union laws and wage-
freezing, along with savage spending cuts, and the opening up of
backroom businesses and factories, unregulated, unhygienic disaster
zones and fire scenes.
Under Cameron it is to be back to the Combination Acts as far as the
trade unions are concerned, combined with Dickensian backstreet
capitalism, and savage cuts in the public services.
On the Marr programme, Cameron accepted that the spending cuts the
Tories had already committed to were ‘not enough’ to balance the
books.
He said economists agreed with the Tories that ‘Cutting the deficit
and having a plan that starts now is not an alternative to a growing
economy, it’s part of getting the economy to grow.’
Cameron added that his party would ‘go further’ than Labour in cutting
the UK’s £178bn budget deficit, if they win power. He pledged more
than £100bn of cuts in four years.
The completely split and divided Labour Party leadership has now
admitted that there will have to be huge cuts in public expenditure by
the next government.
For the working class, the issues are becoming much clearer as they
come into point-blank range.
Prime Minister Brown has used £1.2 trillion to rescue the banks from
their crisis.
Now, with Britain up to its neck in debt, the ruling class is
determined that the working class will pay the full cost of the rescue
attempt.
Cameron is planning to illegalise strikes for more wages, as well as
slashing £100bn from the Welfare State.
Labour, the party that has betrayed the working class, is too fearful
to spell out what it will do.
The working class must take action to defend itself. It must bring
down the Brown government to go forward to a workers’ government that
will put an end to capitalism and bring in socialism.