Author’s Note: Between September 1939 and June 1941 – the UK stood alone in Europe and North Africa against the Nazi Germans and Fascist Italy
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NHS: How Gee Protects Our Family and the Nation! (1.6.2000)
For her education, the British government has levied a total debt of £60,000 – which does not include the £40,000 of extra debt accrued living modestly in South London and bringing-up two children. We are determined that our children will have the best start to life, which is centred around a sound, scientific education. This, at least is working, despite the crippling debt. There is no point asking anyone for help, as everyone we know is in a similar or worse position. It is my mother who wisely feeds us small but significant (continuous) sums of money that fill the leaks and prevent us from sinking! As Communists we refuse to behave like uncivilised animals, and ‘share’ whatever we can with whomever needs it. Obviously, we do not have much to spare, but it is important to us that what we have is given to people who need it most. In reality, the UK needs a genuinely ‘Socialist’ government that will implement a radical re-distribution of wealth, and wipe-out all or most debt built-up over the years of Tory, LibDems and New Labour misrule.
World War One and the Working Class Holocaust
This arousal of working class consciousness unfolded hand in hand with the intensification of bourgeois angst and resistance, which threatened to boil over into an all-out war between the competing bourgeois countries. This situation was reflected by the fact that the various congresses of the Second International dedicated much thinking time to the solving of the problem of what policy should be adopted by the international working class within their respective countries, should war breakout between those countries. In other words, should the developing working class regress into the old pattern of simply following the lead of the bourgeoisie in time of war, and kill one another in the name of ‘nationalism’ for their respective countries? In the 1907 Stuttgart congress, the Second International – with the help of Lenin – issued what was thought of at the time, to be a definitive statement upon the matter (see opening quote). In essence, the Second International in 1907 called upon its constituent members to use every available means to prevent a war from happening, or to shorten a war by the same means should hostilities have already broken out.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 