: "Cant Pay Wont Stay"




With slogans such as the ridiculous "Can't Pay Wont Stay" Blairite Union Leaders hope to get some pennies out of Blair to address the issues of "low unemployment, low inflation and the lowest mortgage rates in living memory"!!!. Union leaders who had the will to fight
and win would coordinate the actions taking place, they would call other unions out and they would make a political challenge to Blairism. But embedded in Blairsworld they believe the market rules and a few pennies here or there will alleviate the problems now confronting the public sector. Hence their inability to understand the issues involved. Like Blair they live like Alice in Wonderland
pretending halfhearted strikes will make the world a better place.

But the class essence of the union bureacracies is such that they are Blairs main supporters, indeed they are instrumental in ramming through the so-called reform process (privatisation under a different name). Whilst all actions are welcome, 24 hour strikes or 48 hour
strikes by non-essential public sector employees like teachers and council workers does not have the same impact on business as when the train drivers cripple the City of London.

Without a dynamic movement that seeks a political alternative to the blind alley of privatisations and deregualation, one that aims build an alternative political party on the principles of workers power for workers control demoralisation at the half-hearted attempts at
changing government policy on wages. But Blairism is in a rush against time. Already the hidden agenda of the Firefighters privatisation is coming to the fore and already talk of them being crushed is getting closer by the hour.

If the British firefighters were able to take a leaf out of the French firefighters tactics and militantly blockade cities with their fireengines and demand 40%, not pray that Blair gives it to them because he got it a willlingness for victory and struggle would enlighten all other sections of workers. But the union bureaucracies unchallenged strength by the far left, who should know better is part and parcel of the crisis of labour.

Indeed the 'far left' is playing its role in shoring up the labour bureaucrats. Socialist Worker repeats New Labours lies about low unemployment and low inflation, Paul Foot praises Gilchrest and Globalise Resistance stand shoulder to shoulder with union bureacurats on MayDay parades, let alone the misnamed Stop the War Coalition who has people on its platforms who had no problem calling for sanctions against Iraq years ago.