A wonderful beauty is born

A wonderful beauty is born

What is hell (or heaven) made to be born?

Start with what is dependent on two decisions; is it possible for a growing mass of ordinary working class people who are able to lead a population in an amazing, extensive, active direction, hinting perhaps for a new, suggesting change? And secondly; will be a major change that can directly push for positive action, not exactly for a complete society, but about a real epic charge - a charge which would be able to start with a new countries' difference. Surprisingly yes, and it could be hovering, even in the West, even in the capitalist United Kingdom. 

Look at this. The results of the UK so far are both failures at hand, in the distinct and constant decline of the vast majority of the UK's bulging recent-history, and the decades of increasing wealth that are held regularly, offered into the international displays. The construction of the UK's economy, over the decades, is one of the biggest and of the last of what was called the supply-side. The supply-side, which was and is practically the entirely absence of public thought and conditions, and yet which was made up to organise, and its UK connections, totally used and created for the role of constant, private, wealth.  

The general failures of capitalism in the West have been increasing in the decline for fifty years - and that continues now. The major step, starting with the 1980s (especially in the UK) was as a new, wider, supply-side 'investment' based economics. The supply-side has been the supposed second economic 'success' over the so-called what had been better, work. Actually this was presenting the wealthy who decided how their suppliers grasped their wealth, without exception. That began building not only the enormous aspects of £millions and then $billions. The rich were supposed to benefit from the trickle benefits of the working classes, except that it never happened. Supply-side was always, apparently, the new answer for the 'new', major capitalism. This was the increasingly dominant wealthy-rich. But later, in the epic, massive, and then failing and collapsing banks supply-side, got increasingly divided from rich to the poor. It is, and was, still under this polarised declined results, but continued weaker banks, wobbling to this day in the UK, still with its' desperate hopes.The whole s-p construction does not have a single discussion, or vote, for even any public argument or debate. Instead, the largest part of the UK's population, the unknown, unaccepted, indeed simple absence, without discussing and talking words, are among the entirely empty of the 60 million people in the UK. 

The earlier demand-side history, initially launched by Keynes, was proposed and then accepted after WW2 and went up to the start of the 1960's. This previous time, after war, during both Labour and the Tories, finally went up to the later and full 1970s. The demand-side was accepted with the large role of public collectives, and the shared and part accepted as insisting for public distributions. Some of the many private requirements across both the top rich and the growing working classes, used some worth for most of the popular-developing work. 

But by the time of Thatcher and the 1980s, the key change demanded the private centres' wealth; got new demands for all of its mainly, private, requirements. Then the supply-side was installed and the real rich wealth, accepting the real 5% to 50% riches, demanded wealth. Covering up from the declining, general poverty, among most of the working and low middle classes meant breaking up. The supply-side now had, and continues to have, increased wealth, reducing popular, ordinary, capacity among virtually all the previous working classes despite their endless decline. 

Now, facing action for the workers to re-cover the supposedly 'normal' ways, before the days with only tiny hints of a public required to push their demands, it is still the rich which appears to dominate their conditions. Hidden, worried or denied, with previously little acceptances, workers have begun to overthrow the 'common'. But workers are now moving in wider directions. What's happening now is millions of the UK people, who are pushing back the rich and pushing forward their own decisions. Many mobilisation of the working classes are doing it by, constantly, pushing back against the rich. The next step would need to be the major, the new and the public democratic change in society. Supply-side is pushing the secret lies emerging. The big majority, not the mini-rich and their decisions, will begin to set up their own solid steps. 

There are immense and still yet denied lies, to open still yet hidden possibilities, in and among the working classes - as they fight to really push their own and similar conditions. All who see the real policies that show how the ruling classes try to hide, that would become the means of all the major changes.

Let it happen. Let's decide the new charges of the people, that can now act, mainly, and genuinely democratically, in the full society. It is obvious to see how the majorities could be so much better since the possible failure of Parliaments. Step up into the real needs of the real people and the plain, clear majorities. The 'no votes' at all for any 1000 or more in the loopy-Lords; the current, dominant riches which are set up in a lot of Parliaments, with the votes for half or less when the few focus of ordinary people find no dice in an empty seat. 

Also let the truth of the supply-side. It is the total belief that huge wealth is constantly required and yet no main, public person, simply accepts or understands such these results and their societies. That again, demands the wretched half parliaments and the need, the desperate need, to turn this real discussions and the debates, building a new charge - against the 'real' unknown (but massive un-spoking) from the current of the rich of the few. 

First, the increasingly rich in the UK are very close to being the relatively richest UK in the world. So, the heat, the gasses, free-food and doubled free schools and doubled free health, will demand a major, successive, population, accepting the patent wealths and instead growing the population across the society. Second, we need to be built up into the real conditions of life, talking through the direct, young, public, popular referendums.   

Third, there are always the charges - where key actions are organised in the discussion, the debate, and the constant, widening, helpful, Charters, that can move new ideas going into the next majorities, as we bring the societies into all of our lights.

Posted by Brian Heron at 15:14 

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2023 - a shock

In the weakest of the half dozen western nations, it is the UK that throws down its weaknesses and failures. It is not just the effect of the many different alarms that already cover across the globe. It is the particular UK's tremors and its specific declines that prevents dissolution of any real development of the future.

There are vast, essentially capitalist conditions, that are shifting in the general western nations, pushing previous pieces out in responses, unsettling increasingly troubles and crises. Most of that troubles signifies the UK itself, which increases the possibility of constant decline, continuing increasing wide, social and economic battles.

In the UK, the absolutely obvious requirement for any proper function in reality and genuine improvement would be the main, critical fight against austerity. Not the breathlessness of the fake 'Brexit'. Not any turns to vicious 'immigration'. Not even the struggle and war for or against NATO. It is the fight for the population in the UK to build the new, collective distribution of wealth. 

Now, today in the UK, wealth needs to change - and directly become - public wealth. 

1% of households are at least £3 billion in the population. The UK's net of all 'work', massively private dominated, is that which is created by the £10.7 Trillion in 2020.  Britain's billionaires rose from £549 Billion in 1990 and then to £653 Billions in 2022 (adjusting inflation.) The UK number of Billionaires have increased more than tenfold from 1990 to today. 

Meanwhile £4 Billion costs children who are living in known poverty. 10% of households are poorer than £15,000 per year. £6.7million in households cannot heat. Two-thirds of the British public say people do not get 'fair share'. Yet constant realities speak louder. 'The UK's problems will not go away in 2023' says Prime Minister Sunak, who owns £730 million. Enormous wealth has doubled by the private rich since the last 12 years and beyond. Enormous poverty of most people is constantly continuing into decline.

Astonishingly, the Labour leadership has been moving since the last three years towards the bent ideas and failing reflections that are based as what will continue to be - a total disaster. The constant dangerous shift in capitalist dominance goes on. Political promises try to go on. The fundamental shifts are demanded into denial. Starmer and his Labour leaders will grab into minor edges, into ancient governments, continually unable to change. Strikes should be pulled back by Labour histories, from 'compromises', not real possibilities. The deep realities could be ignored. 

But a mass movement, right now, in its first steps, organised

Permanent austerity or change

The UK needs more austerity. The new Prime Minister (and the market) says so. And, after a decade-plus of austerity and five Tory Prime Ministers, apparently austerity is the proper answer for the future. Except the new Tory Chancellor adds that this time it has to be an eye-watering austerity, more awful than the previous years. Most of the UK's population are naturally worried to bits. And they have had enough. Quite rightly nobody, except the rich, really believes it will all be so much better, waiting for two years for a General Election.

The obvious first step is a General Election now. The Tories will try to carry on their 'eye-watering' for a while. But they are over. The UK's people largely want an election to get rid of the terrible, austerity-and the endless Tory government. A coming election today would also include the needs of the emerging, evolving nations in Scotland and Northern Ireland; the immense danger of the world's ecology; the war in Europe and most worrying at all, the scary future of 21st century capitalism. 

For the best part of the last 20 years capitalism has called itself 'globalisation'. In essence, globalisation was the domination of international capital, where the cheapest international goods, services and labour created immense volumes of wealth, mainly held by the US banks. This was run collectively by the largest nations, with the US holding the debts (Japan, China etc). What's happening now is the contradiction of international capitalism, increasing resistance by even the largest nations against growing international distribution. Now these nations demand their own particular goods - which more and more insist on the most serious goods made in local hands.

The outcomes of the declining areas of globalisation are not only the increasing demands of national goods and services, it is also increasing (or heightening) the beginnings of conflicts and wars. And the national political results, supported by new or changed political parties, are deepening into more and more rightwing nationalist politics. 

Meanwhile the conditions in the West for working class and lower middle class's peoples are dropping week by week. A radical response is emerging against governments. At the moment many people are polarising into two general directions (some combining opposite ideas.) The nationalist temptation for example deliberately promotes resistance to all immigrants, constantly spreading out in society deliberately, by the UK government. Yet again our richer government leaders are loathed by millions of people, who are unable to get their daily requirements. And a new core of the left has risen since 2016 in parts, particularly in Europe. As the increasing austerity evolves, so the left is emerging despite the deliberate contradictions put out by our leaders. 

The failing of globalisation-type capitalism, a capitalism that cannot re-establish as before, is also pressing the changes of the left. The absence of any other choice except socialism or the current declining capitalism is the only direction available now in the West. For more than a century it is only socialism that has offered a genuine society and welfare alternative to capitalism. This has become critical. Today, a green-socialist direction would therefore seem the most obvious step to take. But the failures in the past of both social democratic leaderships, or of most communist dictators, remain deeply in the West's people's history. SD in its century has always turned away from real socialism in order to support capitalism under key critical conditions. Communism crashed, after the dictator Stalin and Stalinism, which completely broke any acceptance of such horror and failure in the vast majority of the West's working classes.

At the moment, from what will become a thunderous period, the unions are battling in the UK and France. The next steps need to be the overthrow of the new anti-union legislation, designed to split workers in general. Already there are common Charters that bring together all the basic radical steps that support the rights of us all. The major political parties, including the leaders of the British Labour Party, are largely stepping aside from any actual action. The focus of the Labour leaders are explicitly working to get a majority in Parliament. And it is at this stage that the active left need to pass the Labour leaders - and begin the genuine next political battle. 

The next step that has to begin is the growth of dual political power in our society. The current, hated, Parliament, that is determined to carry on at all costs, is simply a barrier to any sort of progress for millions of people. The unions are rising, and now we need the people in the cities helping the food parcels, the towns supporting travel to hospitals, the refusal to accept desperate poverty, with thousands and thousands of people to march and to build our own local parliaments, the ones that will vote and act directly alongside. Supporting elected Mayors and even positive local councils can start a web of practical politics that stands against the rotten, failing Parliament. The new politics can have a hundred direct possibilities. In due course it can build up voting for real, basic, issues. Parties of the left can help, but first in practical ways. And finally our Lords, the party PMs, the huge money to get tricky votes at so called elections, the endless centuries of tradition, of domination, will fall. 

Five points and the UK's finished.

1. The Tory leadership (and membership) are unable to define the Tory's future. The recent previous idea, where some superman or women, like the historical Thatcher who, it turns out, won a poisonous war, or a 'ripping' public schoolboy like Boris, who was 'levelling up' despite the lack of any money - have already failed. 

The Tory MP Steve Baker is the only chance, with his block of super EU-leavers in Parliament who still wants Truss, as part of his new idea. Baker has been studying the 1900s when, among other horrors, there was little or no public health and welfare (unless you were rich). Perhaps surprisingly he does not mention the role of the UK's imperialism at that time, and all the countries that poured in the goods and money into the corporations and the UK's bank during that period. Perhaps Baker believes he can get modern equivalents from Singapore and the rest of the cheap labour nations. Baker is for the 19th century future. He's studying it and sees that there will be no money in 2045 to pay the old and ill. People have got to pay for themselves. The main money from the new tiny State has to be the army needed, we assume, to squash the starving. (Baker also doesn't mention the ecology of 2045.) 

2. and 3. The growing futures of both Northern Ireland and Scotland both hang on two major shifts in today's UK's politics. First there are, or will be, imminent numbers of the population of both sectors who are favouring separate countries other than the UK. Second, both have political organisations enabled to organise the shift to change into new potential nations. The weakness in the case of NI would undoubtedly be the minority block of Ulster. That is sharpening for sure but it is also dwindling. The bigger obstacle is more likely to be the resistance of the main Southern Irish parties (again minorities) in the South. But a different future (unlike the UK) is crystal clear and getting stronger in both populations.

In Scotland, because of the long-term and the better organisations in Scotland, and the dismal past and future apparent in the UK, the next two years are likely to finally (if reluctantly) decide Scottish nationhood. The failure of ecological and radical possibilities in Scotland, rather than the UK as a whole, is constantly increasing. The alternative political support in Scotland, against the UK, has become deeper and deeper. Moreover, the SNP party has placed its decision to present its Scottish referendum in the likely fast act of a new UK Election. 

4. Labour is very likely to win the next Election. This is as obvious - given the Tories. But that is the point. The Election will happen because of the Tories. The Labour leadership, who are undoubtedly able to pass by the Tories' crash, is, up close, not much different to the ideas, as such, that the majority of the Tory Party offer. Except for their dissolution. The Labour leadership has one, particular critical idea. They are utterly determined not to have anything to do with socialism. The current capitalist crisis, with its different aspects, has created a totally normal, would-be, Tory type answer, if they have not collapsed. No wonder that the main Labour Party Momentum leader, Michael Chessum, is now calling for a new left Party. 

Two vital questions about the crisis will blow up, upon the coming Election. Millions of workers are acting to win their wages, in order to keep themselves properly alive. The Labour leaders are hiding what Labour will say just now. In office they will act like the Tories - perhaps without some of the new Tory laws, although the last Labour governments maintained the anti-union laws by Thatcher.  Second, the large and well supported public utilities are a straightforward, necessary step against the current capitalist crises. Labour leaders frankly dump that direction. 

What is decisive in this particular turn is the understanding that a new period, certainly across the West, has begun. The evolution of capitalism has been more and more slicing through the capacity of social democracy to reconstruct social support as the requirement of privacy and wealth. It is not a matter of different questions. It is a system that is essential and deliberately and partly destructive. Even the state capitalist development of the Chinese nation, which is dominated by bureaucratic social, military state, is now facing a serious reduction of development, where figures of development are not being provided from the current 2022 Communist Conference because of the serious reductions. The politics of the Labour leaders are preparing for the decline of social state support.

5. The new period of history, politics and economics, is already calling its alarms in the European war in Ukraine and the decline of the West. As this is written the next UK Prime Minister has just been dumped. And it is not some personal or even political reason of the constant, catastrophic political failures. It is the fundamental shifts of a new time for capitalism and the different places that it requires; a system that is not working.  

Deep crises; false directions.

Since nearly a century gone by, the West has fought two world wars and accepted the rise of the USA, but has never seen the political and the economic convulsion that is being experienced today. The West is facing the possibility of losing its dominance, including the wider US world-wide leadership. Recessions and inflations are now regularly widespread across the West. Well before Putin's upheaval, there has been deep political shifts in the West. As a result, there are eruptions among the previous, traditional western political parties. They are dwindling or changing themselves, moving in favour for surface novelties, battling as dominant leaders, rather than connecting to large-scale, party memberships. Traditional politics is only playing with what it used to be - with the normal, albeit minimal, 'democracy'. And to top it all, the West is now fiddling with a war with Russia. 

Leaders, like the almost certainly dumped Prime Minister Truss in the UK, or the more solid President Macron in France, are continually offering apparently new brilliant but actually empty approaches, as a result of what is becoming yesterday's capitalism. In reality Macron (and most of the others) have already failed to deal with the beginning decline of twenty years of globalisation. Most capitalist major processes still continually remain out of the hands of many western countries - with the main exception of the US. Globalisation is not at all entirely gone. But now, various desperate efforts are being tried to establish national initiatives to rebuild more local capitalist developments, based on the nation’s creations of wealth - as try Truss did. 

The most immediately, half-baked idiocy was to be seen was the Truss's demand for local 'growth, growth and growth' (planned by possible alliances through Singapore and the South Eastern nations.) Truss nearly smashed the UK's economy when she started her first day 'growth' campaign. The UK is still wobbling. With her eyes on the labour conditions of Asia, Truss's so-called growth-based ideas remains old and dead. The UK is still failing regarding Truss's mini-imperialist efforts and the pretence that she could still win the failing glories of Ronald Reagan was always frankly fatuous. We wait to see if the likely next new UK PM and the already new Chancellor Hunt are properly kneeling to the market. This will increase the further decline of health and welfare, of education and benefits etc., as he did before the 2019s when he was minister of health.

The desperate conditions of the billions of people in the South continues. China is currently the major force for development in Africa. The US now mainly focuses on South America and, as much as they are able, to determine the Far East. But as life in the West gets more and more difficult, it means that what used to be the 'normal' traditional politics just doesn't work anymore - whether it's Macron or Truss or Italy, Scandinavia or even Germany. Traditional politics are breaking down. The failure of these connotations inevitably push new movements and actions, sometimes direct responses, that involve immediate anger towards the 'old status quo's, shaking the traditional Parties. In the UK (supposedly with the unchallenged political history) there have been four Tory PMs and two General Elections in five years. Two PMs failed in months and the last is likely to fall very soon, if not now! The UK population (and others) have never been more concerned and worried about their politics but have never been more angry because of the failures of politicians.

The empty, proud and swollen-headed PM Truss, is a clear example of all the decline of the pompous notions that rulers and leaders, particularly in Britain, as they imagined their dominance in their own nation. A handful of mainly old Tories thought Truss was a Thatcher part two and put her in as the UK's leader. This tiny rich group creating an enormous folly, which now shouts to the world of the desperate failure of the UKs democracy. Meanwhile the UK’s economic and political failures are found across the whole West, from Hungary to the US. The characters and conditions vary from parliaments to executives, but the wealth and power of the capitalist system continually blocks any requirements for essential change. Wealth and then its power smothers almost all that any real possible politics and real required democracy. 

What is a genuine democracy that will change the peoples’ anger, now rising across the working classes? It is the action of the people who are already pushing against the status quo. The total assumptions of the Truss's and the millionaires like Hunt, which are happily preparing the removal of the growing trade union strikes, are now going to clash with true democracy. The battle to come is an example of the creation of the possibility of a new democracy, when democratic workers are trying to vote for their wages and conditions. 

Then there comes the real barrier. Capitalism 'works' only for ruling classes. Its object is more and more obviously wealth and private possession. When Tory MPs will vote against strikes, the rich MPs are 'defending' their bit of capitalism. Despite the fact that they are a small minority in the country, they are already wealthy and they are frightened of the workers, in that they could lose their general domination. The battle with the strikes inevitably faces up to the possibility of real democracy. 

This direct moment is the coming-clash against classes in society in the UK. But it also could be the beginnings of a real democracy. The workers who are collectively organising to achieve better wages and conditions could further invite the same discussion and make the decisions regarding how, for example, with the utilities, that could be used, developed and widened, in the general public's ownership. This would be a clash of dramatic consequences. Moving on, small businesses ownerships, an immense proportion of UK labour, can equally build collective management and distributions. 

More widely, the core of capitalism in the UK, the banks and the trusts, will inevitably have to be broken down as more and more of workers, youth, the poorer, continue to fight back. The growing disaster of UK's capitalism - increasingly felt to different aspects across the West - has only one answer. Their answer is to do anything possible that ensures holding up the UK's capital and pushes down most of the population. 

The centuries of the UK's imperialism, of slavery, of class and wealth etc etc., is one particular of an example, of a very obvious example, across the whole declining West. Capitalism in the West is getting sharper and sharper. Societies are in trouble and some are already breaking down in the destruction of what was already the normal, minimal, democratic activity. The new actions and battles, marches and organisations, are the platform for the new democracy. 

Problems and Solutions 6

26 September

Problem 

It's now well known that Prime Minister Truss and Chancellor Kwarteng, among others, wrote a book, published in 2012 and called 'Britannia Unchanged'. Truss and Kwarteng said 'The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor.' 

They are tricking us. What Truss and Kwarteng are doing is pretending that workers and small business people are the reason for the UK's 'poor productivity'. The reality is that big British corporations do not send their profits to pay for new developments, they spend them. They have been doing this since 1950 on and off - in order to gather their own, personal wealth. And the core of this 'system' is London banking and its tax-free attached nations.

Most daily work in the UK today has two aspects. First, there is the rise of small businesses, which now provides 3/5ths of all work. Second, small businesses and the workers who work in the public and private sectors, have had their wages and earnings mainly reduced for decades. 

Worse. T and W are actually planning to raise their productivity by using a Singapore version of work in the UK. This means removing and selling private organisations, applying drastic work- times, reducing wages and conditions for workers. (The average wage in Singapore in 2022 decreased. There are no minimum wages. Most workers live on £650 per month. Food etc is described as expensive compared with SE Asia in general.) Grinding work for millions is to be the secret for the TW version of productivity. 

Solution

Nothing can be done until this shaky government is thrown away or crashes. When T and K are dumped in the bin, to get productivity in the UK (and it is worse than most western countries) is to go public. The failure of privatisation is as plain to plain to see. The mighty corporations need to start by a legally set-up, 50% to 50% with the new government. Productivity therefore grows automatically in such alliances. If refused, our corporation and its wealth will be sequestered. Fully public, either by the genuine democratic government or by democratic overseen state capitalism, can push development to a dramatic result. Other contexts in the worlds' nations are already using such examples, and that is without the push that a new and collective democracy would propel forward a society with the benefits of a Western state. 

Brian Heron