We are not utopians. Open mass migration strategies without these measures will break society into identity wars and tribalism no matter how much we would like it to be otherwise. We will resist them on behalf of British workers.
If you have read this far, what we want most from you is trust in our determination to go the distance and change this country for the better. Where we stand a political candidate, we want you to vote for that candidate. Where we do not stand a candidate, we want you to vote for anyone who is not one the dreadful five upholders of a broken system: the genuine (Blue) Tories, the Red Tories (Labour), the Orange Tories (Liberal Democrats), the Green Tories or, in Scotland, the Yellow Tories.
A system made up of capitalists or hangers on to capital sits secure because it thinks that whenever we get fed up with one bunch of Tories, you will have no other choice than to vote for another. That is the mould we want to break. We know that this will take a lot of organisation, time, patience, determination, some luck and our ability to persuade you, the reader, to take the risk of abandoning the usual suspects.
So, what is the alternative? The populist Right has emerged in force in the US and across Europe. It represents a genuine revolt against the ineptitude and failures of the current ruling order. But it is no friend to the working class. It is angry and opportunist, driven often by people who are frustrated without any serious analysis of their situation.
The liberal-Left has offered no alternative – just waves of enthusiasm that are easily appropriated by the neo-liberals or destroyed with falsehoods (as happened to Jeremy Corbyn in 2019). Those who think they can turn the Labour Party (the Red Tories) into a democratic socialist party are demonstrably living in a fool’s paradise while the Greens are a single-issue party whose obsessions have led them down a very dark path towards war and deindustrialisation in Germany and who have no understanding of many of the effects of their policies on working households.
We are invulnerable to falsehoods because we just don’t care about them. We have our own story to tell. We are doggedly going down our path towards redistribution of power and resources to the working class, for anti-imperialism and for socialism. It is a long game and we are prepared to play it, nurturing our own future leadership from our younger members. If you want to be part of this and you like our Manifesto, do not wait for a chance to vote for us, join us, participate, contribute to policy in ways Labour members can only dream of and perhaps be a candidate and hold office one day in your own right.
