2016 - time to fight back

Let’s make 2016 the year the fight back gains momentum:

1. To work to force this government of the super-rich elected by just 24% of the electorate to retreat on its attack on the working class. A key factor will be building on Jeremy Corbyn’s magnificent anti-austerity victory.
2. For Labour spokespeople to remember the Party was formed out of the struggle to defend the trade union movement from financial destruction by the capitalists.
3. For the TUC to recognise that this government acts with impunity because they can. Cameron and Co know that, apart from some verbal opposition, active industrial opposition to their policies from the tops of the Labour Movement is none existent. The TUC should give decisive leadership to the six million affiliated workers and the wider working class in a programme of industrial action to force this illegitimate government to back down on its assault on all the working class have fought for over decades.
4. To continue to hold up the PCS as an example to the trade union movement of how to fight back against a crazed, ultra reactionary cabal masquerading as the governance of this country.
5. To demand that Labour councils accept their responsibilities which is to defend workers and not to attack them.

Tony Mulhearn