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12 February 2012
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Communist Party industrial organiser Anita Halpin opened the party's annual trade union school by highlighting the role of communists in Britain's labour movement.
'A knowledge of Marxism is crucial to understanding today's deep crisis of capitalism and how to overcome it in the interests of working people', she told trade unionists from every part of Britain, gathered in Ruskin House, London over the weekend.
Pointing to the class nature of the attack on workers and their families in Britain and across Europe, she denounced the 'dictatorship of the banks and the markets' whose austerity and privatisation policies are being carried by unelected regimes in Britain, Greece and Italy.
'National parliaments no longer have the power to control key elements of financial and monetary policy, while the EU imposes "regme change" on elected governments that fail to squeeze their own people until the pips squeak', she accused.
CP general secretary Robert Griffiths urged the trade unions to act in 'militant unity' to defend public sector pensions, arguing that much more was also at stake. 'This is a battle to defend decent pensions, public services and jobs for all', he argued.
'If the Bank of England can find £50 billion overnight to shore up the bond market speculators through "quantitative easing", why should the workers of Britain face an extra £40 billion in public spending cuts this coming financial year?', he asked.
Communist Party women's organiser Liz Payne warned that a military attack on Iran would inflict 'catastrophic damage' on the Iranian people, especially the democratic opposition, the women's movement and the left.
'We would also pay a heavy price in Britain for this diversion from solving people's real problems, not least in public spending and soldiers' lives', she insisted.
The CP trade union school also decided to:
* Promote the party's 'Open letter to workers, trade unionists and socialists' as widely as possible, raising the need for the labour movement to ensure it has its own mass party.
* Distribute a new pamphlet 'Broadening the battle lines' by CPB chair Bill Greenshields, proposing a strategy for winning the pensions battle.
* Urge massive support for the Wednesday, March 28, day of industrial and community action and the March 31 Morning Star conference 'For a People's Britain not a Bankers' Britain'.
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