Can we get the words "Hope not hate" edited off this thread, if it's not by HnH.
If it is by them, can we get it deleted and replaced by ACTUAL anti-fascists, not a front-group for New Labour?
Cheers

Labour party activists, One day you will wake up to the fact

to new labour still comes from within the old labour party. It aint so black & white,
vote for direct democracy candidates & universal rights, or a hung parliament so the buggers have to at least cooperate & cant dictate too much, or vote none of the above.
Do you really want to wake up to a tory government, labour especially with a bush regime might have stunk, but Torys with right wing grouping in EU would likely be even more hellish.
Ok if you have a cushy job,comfort or education,
think about the poor & disabled poor,
voting tactically as well as activism matters!

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your logic would work if they actually worked in our favour. Sadly, the state exists mainly to prop up the system of privilege surrounding whatever is the ruling class. In this, liberal democracy, it happens to be the employing class. A vote for any party is a vote for that, and a vote for the economic system that creates and utilises nationalism and political fascism to keep us in place.

VOTING
Social Democracy is the notion that the needs of the working class can be mediated amicably within capitalism and the state. It presupposes the economic and hierarchical systems as the normal way of going about things firstly, and then mistakenly attempts from that platform to bring about political and social equality between classes. While it may have become easier in this country to move from worker to management to boss, from job-seeking single parent to police officer, the Class system still requires a level of inequity to permeate vast numbers of the working class, to keep us struggling from wage cheque to wage cheque, to be too poor to move closer to a decent school, to be desperate, disillusioned or hungry enough to steal so the state can justify stronger laws and more prisons.
As an Anarcho-communist, I have no faith in parliamentary democracy, and I see the election as a mere handing over of the reigns of capitalism from one group to another- whether they choose to control capitalism (state capitalist), negotiate with it (old labour) or let it run rampant (conservative) depends on the party in power- but either way the result means the working class is still under the yoke of wage slavery.
In the last 3 decades, even under New Labour, which still poses as protectorates of the working class, the institutions of Social democracy have been under attack. NHS has been privatised in bits, the welfare state has been under constant attack and new rules on disability allowance are seen as many as an attempt to bleed the most vulnerable sections of our class for what labour they can get. [See: Autistics and unemployment, Aspire magazine] and trade unions, once a threat to capitalism, have become affiliates to New Labour and become stifled by bureaucratic chiefs with wages as high as the bosses and are no longer self-organised by the workers.
Many socialists of the Trotskyist tendency advocate voting in what they see as strategically placed faith in a party electorate [usually New Labour and not done without accusations of sentimentality and nostalgia for the Labour of old]. This can be born out of a threat by fascists such as the BNP, and many other nationalist groups throughout history; however it’s just as common for Trot groups to reason that a socialist turncoat is better than a fox-hunting Toff. However, Class struggle Anarchists and other ultra-leftist communists see two main issues with this tactic. The first being that parliamentary voting promotes a passive attitude in the working class by the notion that the uphill battle to get us all to vote means our voices must be important, but heavy enough that they can only carry weight every few years. Any socialist worth their salt envisions a future where the general running of society is down to the active participants acting in councils of community and workplaces. Many of us, Anarchists included, believe that the notion of solidarity and mutual aid, the seed of socialism, is innate in humans and should be nurtured into fruition. How an atomising, passive act as voting in bourgeois elections is supposed to empower us is beyond me.
Secondly, and more concretely, a socialist analysis of nationalist fascism leans us to the conclusion that it is in fact a form of political control used in times of desperate economic recession or social volatility. Put simply, when capitalism enters a recession the bosses start to cut their losses and with them the workers wages, hours and conditions. Often large sections of the working class become conscious of themselves as a class - and they act- recent boss-knappings, strikes at racist/anti-migrant policy and workplace occupations worldwide being impressive examples. [See LibCom.org for further info, analysis and news]. This, inevitably, proves a threat to the bosses interests as they want us divided by their false premises- race, sex, nationality, union, religion, if it can be exploited for labour, it will. The historical response by corporations has been to fund nationalist parties, [See:  http://libcom.org/library/allied-mul...y-world-war-2] as their political motive is to convince the most normative working class people [usually white, heterosexual, and of the common religious persuasion] that they have more common with their boss than with their fellow worker because they have the same cultural or national characteristics.
Of course, nationalist fascism is only a last resort of capitalists to keep us from tearing the entire system of privilege and exploitation down, as it’s often quite dirty, dangerous and unpredictable for all involved. Usually, when the economy is “healthy”, the need to collect a wage to feed ourselves with at the end of the day, debt, fear of the next big terror, or of the fake threat of migration to a false sense of national identity is enough to keep us on the treadmill and jut divided enough to keep us on the treadmill.
You can see why we don’t see a future in voting ourselves out of the threat of fascism. It’s perhaps ironic that to give you an idea of one tactic [of many] for a worthwhile and effective method of combating ideological racism and organised bigotry, I should leave you with this quote, but it nails it.

"Only one thing could have broken our movement - if our enemies had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed the nucleus of our movement with extreme brutality."

(Adolf Hitler, 1933)

For a dryer, more in depth blurb, read Two Cheeks of the same arse, from Anarchist Federation's anti-fascist issue of Organise
 http://afed.org.uk/org/issue70/fascism_democracy_arse.html