LETTER TO THE EDITOR: War on the working class

If you need palliative care, they’re having your house and your money; if you’re wanting a holiday, make it a short one and don’t expect holiday pay; if you’re a nurse and you think you deserve a pay rise, tough; if you’re in low paid work and you claim benefits to make ends meet, start looking for longer hours, or another job as well, or both; if you don’t, you’ll lose your benefits; if you’re a student, your term fees will be 24K, plus the newer interest rate on your already lifetime loan burden.

There is nothing secure anymore. There is nothing that these toffee-nosed spoilt brats will stop at to make life as difficult and miserable as they can for us all, even if it means squeezing the last penny out of our purse or pocket and go to their off-shore tax-havens: that’s how capitalism works; money and wealth trickles up, not down, and all these fools that have been talking about the “Northern Power House”, “Levelling Up", and all the other baloney, have proven to be just that: fools!

The class is stirring though, in spite of the takeover of the Labour Party by the Tories and the Blairites (Google Al Jazeera to find out what and how they did it); the working class has nowhere to run, and a confrontation is inevitable between the better trade unions and the government.

The ruling class have been planning to take us on, just like they did the miners in 84/85, and they are hoping it will be just as decisive and profitable as they smash to pieces our NHS, and our workers and employment rights. Our movement is split at the top between position seekers, careerists, and out-and-out traitors, just as it was back then; but the class is much stronger and many sections of the workforce are seething with anger at the contempt this elected dictatorship have got for the decent hard working people and families of this country.

To listen to the likes of Truss and that slime ball, Jacob Rees-Mogg, calling our workers the laziest in Europe, when the opposite is the case, is enough to get anyone’s hackles up.

There is a section of our once proud Labour Party turning their back on “Sir Keir” and his establishment supporting sycophants. For them, the threat of being expelled from the party is being far out-weighed by retaining any credibility as a socialist and class fighter — the measure that was used to separate the wheat from the chaff in its better times.

The US proxy war is also having a profound effect on the better-educated, principled MPs.

As the death toll and propaganda increases and the war drags on, the displacement of people seeking refuge takes on massive proportions. Millions of homeless, penniless refugees are wandering around Europe creating tension in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany, Russia (with the greatest number) and other countries.

There have been millions on the streets demonstrating about the war and its consequences. It must be stopped!

As Putin realises he cannot treat the war as a small manageable test of Soviet power, he is upping the anti and mobilising a much greater army to deal with a modern, fully armed and trained European/US-backed force that is pouring billions of dollars worth of up-to-date heavy equipment into the conflict. On top of that, he has threatened the NATO combatants that he will use nuclear weapons if Russian territory is violated. And he claims he is “not bluffing“.

Now, with Truss not knowing her Baltic from her Black Sea, and her promise that, if she won the leadership race, Ukraine would win the war, and the fact that we are training, fast-tracking Ukrainian troops to kill Russian sons, daughters, and conscripts, not 80 miles away up the A1, doesn’t our shadow minister for nuclear annihilation, John Healey, think it’s about time he intervened in this utter madness?  

Stop the war!

Dave Platts, Clifton