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THERE HAS TO BE AN ALTERNATIVE 

 Surely, the way we live now is not the best of which our species is capable. We don’t have to turn on the ‘news’ to hear of wars and rumours of wars.  Accumulations of wealth deliver impoverishment. Daily life imposes immiserisation, for example, time-poverty among the well-off. Corporations are intensifying their plunder of nature. In the process, they are fouling our nest with pollution and garbage.  Surveillance by governments and corporations threatens our ability to fight back on every issue.

Every one of us has some awareness of these facts. After all, we endure their effects everyday.

 The political tasks are threefold: 1. bring the local and the global together; 2. link awareness into action; 3. understand how and why the entire system can and should be replaced. An independent working-class agenda is but one contribution towards an action programme.

 Let’s start by thinking from scratch about where most of our lives are much of the time: what are the issues that we have to grapple with throughout every day?......   read more

The "five pillars",  on which we need to build a solid understanding of current situation, a vision for the future, and thus a connection with everyday people, are:
               Work
               Health
               Education
               Housing
               Transport

Initial Documents: