3   THE REVOLUTIONARY

    ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK

 

 

 

Capitalist Long-Wave Cycles

 

    The question hence arises what historically causes capitalist long-wave crisis? And is a new cyclical long-wave boom likely?

            Capital is invested in:

New productive capital (plant/machinery etc).

Workers' wages (b1), and social wages(b2), eg. real demand.

Dividends (c1) and speculation (c2).

Welfare (d1), this is derived from taxes on (b1) and an expansion of the national debt, the costs borne predominately by workers, therefore it cannot properly be considered an additional part of real demand.  And corporate welfare (d2), this includes arms contracts, pension scams, profit guarantees etc.

 

            Capital is motivated by the pursuit of surplus profits (above the average rate of profit), causing capital to flow into those sectors where profits are highest.

            Over the expansionary long-wave, the organic composition of capital (a), its' productivity, rises faster than workers' wages and social wages (b1,b2), real demand; which rise but not sufficiently to absorb all the products of (a) over the long-run. This is called over-accumulation (of capital).

            This over-accumulation of capital in a given sector, or the economy in general, causes market saturation or over-production; as there isn't' sufficient real demand to absorb all the products. This happens because the pressure of capital for growth in its' assets or a return on its' investment (c1), causes over-accumulation - productivity to grow out of kilter with real demand. This causes the rate of profit to fall in real industry (over the long-run) below the culturally expected level (ranging from country to country dependant on the relationship of class/imperial forces).

            When this fall in the rate of profit takes place in a certain sector or sectors, this causes periodic downturns (in a period of general upswing), until (with weaker concerns bankrupted etc) the rate of profit recovers to the average rate of profit.

            When this process of over-accumulation and market saturation becomes generalised throughout the productive economy, capital finds itself caught between two fires:

Falling real demand (of workers and social wages absorbing production).

Demands for higher wages (threatening the rate of profit and over-accumulated capitals' share).

 

            Unless (impossibly unlikely) capitalism were to voluntarily accept an evolving loss of hegemony (over control of production) and concedes either an evolving and continuous rise in wages or (preferably) in social wages, to bring the production/real demand relationship into kilter (for sustainable, stable and continuous growth), the situation cannot be (peacefully) resolved.

            This crisis leads to a build up of inflationary pressures - the struggle for surplus value - as capital seeks to pass the costs (of its profits) on either in higher prices to consumers or trades-union aided `social contracts', holding wages down threatening investment strikes & lockouts. And increasingly there is a regressive long-term switch of capital into speculation (c2), including the expansion of credit (against inflated property prices); and a growing dependency on military contracts (squeezing real demand still further) and corporate welfare (d2) - combined with a squeeze on (b1, b2 and d1).

            However as the only source of real wealth is real industry, these financial/speculative `investments', serve only to further milk the productive base of industry (and real demand able to absorb production), with demands for ever higher dividends - effectively treating capital as (unsustainable) income. Capitalism therefore has an increasing tendancy to disappear up its' own speculative arsehole (see rise and fall in land/house prices etc).

            It is a myth/lie that interests rates are used to `combat inflation'. The only way they `work' is by discouraging productive economic activity. This hammers real demand giving the purely cosmetic statistical appearance of lower inflation (reduced economic activity).

            In fact the raising of interest rates only serves to increase (proportionately & aggregately) the demands of parasitic finance (for ultimately higher dividends) on the productive base of the economy, weakening real demand (eg. increasing exorbitant mortgage/rent rates and chronic indebtedness - REVEALED NOT CAUSED - when the speculative/property  bubble bursts) institutionalising inflation (in hidden form, see indebtedness) and increasing susceptibility to inflationary pressures over the long-term (& ultimately a global credit crunch leading to global stagflation/ hyperinflation).

            Low nominal inflation conceals the impact of indebtedness and therefore merely illustrates the triumphal victory of capital over labor's capacity (through traditional means) to resist this continuous and permanent assault.

            The sole function and purpose of raising (real) interest rates is to restore the position of (especially unproductive finance) capital over labor in a period of crisis/permanent crisis, and nothing more. To re-iterate industry cannot/dare not resist, because this would mean mobilising the masses, who would then in turn force their own more radical agenda afterwards.

            The problem can be summarised simply as:

Capitalism is out of kilter viz real demand and accumulation

There is no (automatic) pol/econ mechanism to correct this. Eg. via increased wages and/or social wages - WPCs preventing capital being/becoming (again) a law unto itself - freeing a democratic parliament/local govt to play this (redistributive) role.

           

            Ironically it is now up to us to place reconstruction as our first priority to repair the damage done by decades of speculative vandalism to our industrial capital base. This means wages will very probably have to be cut & taxes raised to finance reconstruction. But to re-emphasise - as long as these criminals control the pol/econ, there is absolutely no question whatsoever of our backing down from demanding even much higher wages, as all sacrifices under this regime are sacrifices for global finance and only serve to fuel its' insatiable greed. But to repeat, this is only a defensive measure to hold the line against further attacks, not a utopian end in itself; our priority is reconstruction.

 

            Such long-term crisis when resolved/resolvable, were done so through a long-term rise in wages (neccessary to provide the basis for a long-term upswing) after a re-ordering of the productive forces (the national & global division of labor - in turn) prepared & aided by a long-term fall (in the previous period of long-term downswing) in wages (by the reccessionary long-wave) and a decline in productive investment - raising the (potential) rate of profit after (the implementation of) revolutionary reform - As a starting point, from which the long-wave boom then generates its' own momentum, with reforms & rises in wages - until it eventually collapses due to over-accumulation.

            The key examples are:

 

Post-Chartism & Revolutions of 1848 - After the break-up of the hegemony of landed capital (by the abolition of the corn-laws and the last remnants of fuedalism in Europe) foreign trade was expanded and the (real) domestic purchasing power was driven up by

a) A reduction in the price of bread, meaning people had more real demand/purchasing power to purchase industrial products.

b) A raising in the price of labor (caused by extra industrial activity by foreign trade and a)-), as demand for labor grew; so did its' ability to bargain/push for higher wages in turn creating more (real) demand.

            Until over-accumulation/market saturation brought the long-wave expansion to an end in the early-mid 1870's - beginning a long-wave downturn.

 

Gladstone/ Asquith (continental Europe had similar variants) - With a new rise in radical politics & militant trades-unionism, threatening to assume revolutionary-political charachteristics (brought about by the early -mid 1870's - late1880's reccessionary wave).

a) Gladstone simply allowing laborism to force higher pay (and later Asquiths' more pro-active) reforms expanded the purchasing power of labor (whilst cutting the ground from the more extreme elements).

b) An expansion into new colonies creating new markets - in turn raising demand for labor/wages and real demand.

            Until over-accumulation & market saturation led to the crunch battle for markets of WW1, and the collapse of national capitalisms in Europe.

 

The Global Political-Economy - The fall in real wages brought about by the victory of fascism across continental Europe (smashing the labor movement) - and the (liberal imperialist) development of the global pol/econ by the process of WW2 (enabling USA led global rev-reform in response to the post - WW2 radical uprisings/expansion of the  core-radical empire - which processes of we shall examine in C7); provided the starting point for the boom & expansion of free-trade & world market (representing an advance on the old national capitalist systems of imperial preference & tariffs that preceded them), Which then as before, could generate their own development/momentum.

 

            WW2 (as we shall see later in C7) can be seen not as an explosion but as a transitional process from one stage of development to another.

            Conversely, the rise of global finance can be seen as not merely another stage of development but as a quantum pol/econ dynamic, that will either lead to its' (structural and molecular) revolutionary metamorphosis, or its savage implosion. As no single state is capable of taking the lead in the global reform of the system as FDR/USA was able to before.

 

            But there is another factor at work in the most dynamic/high tech corporations, that is perhaps of even greater importance in preventing any reform of the capitalist system.

 

            Ultimately the further development of the productive process/potential is ever-increasingly dependant on information, and has an increasing tendancy to require the socialisation of information (within a given corporate entity) requiring much flatter corporate organisations.

            The new knowledge workers are incapable of leading the revolution or (peaceful) transition to communism; but they (their very existence & neccessity in the modern productive process) prevent the generalised reform of capitalist pol/econ - by impelling the need for flat corporate organisations. Eliminating the social sub-stratification (within corporations in terms of control over knowledge) neccessary for maintaining social control & class stability - which can now only exist in ever greater armies of marginalised, underemployed, unemployed workers and middle managers.

            The information revolution is here but cannot (break out of the constraints of `corporate communism' - the universal liberation of capital from the need for workers) be realised without the revolutionary - political seizure of control of/over capital - redressing the economic/historical problem of lack of investment in PEOPLE.

    Capitalism therefore, has effectively abolished the conventional classical working class (as a pol/econ force). But rather than `all being middle class now' as some boot-lick souls of the regime would have us believe, all are faced with the prospect of lumpenisation - leaving behind only a potential amalgam of (steadily impoverished) revolutionary democratic forces, with the potential to coalesce around a program of socialist hegemony - forcing investment in people.
Socialist Hegemony

 

            Our aim is maximum working-class control of the basic econ. agenda (and constitutional framework with the minimum of neccessary day to day political interferance - avoiding (especially unaccountable)bureaucracy (as demonstrated in th diagram below).

 

 

 

 

  (A) WPCs

1) Controls econ agenda/ priorities

(gaurentees against finance becoming a law unto itself again

- with wasteful speculation/ dividends).

Facilitates common ownership of information.

2)Determines also the pay scales of finance/ exec/ employees (B).

 

 

(B) FINANCE

1) Provides loans/ finance to industry (C).

2) Recieves share capital/ profits from (C).

3) Recieves pension contributions & shares

(cannot be sold - held by finance controlled by

WPCs (A) elected by labor as a whole (D).

 

 

(C) INDUSTRY

1) Recieves work including sacrifices for reconstruction (D).

2) Provides wages/ shares & pension contributions ultimately leads to control of any new/ large concerns - via factory committees themselves under the hegemony of socialist finance.

 

 

(D) LABOR

1) See vis industry  & 3) finance.

2) Elects WPCs (A)

 

 


 

 

            Note in Stalinist systems, the (unaccountable) political bureaucracy (the origins of which we will examine in chapter 6) is inclined to interfere at every level (from above) preventing managerial and labor (control from below) autonomy.

            Our single greatest indeed only historic priority is to prevent finance capital (with its' priorities of share dividends/speculation) becoming a law unto itself ever again, by placing the organs of finance under the elected control of organised labor- through the WPCs. Compelling finance to serve industry which in turn (ceases to serve a speculative class) serves the goal of Commonwealth and global enrichment (note the WARTIME sacrifices neccessary for global reconstruction) - bonuses/higher pay for workers, but most importantly (taxes funding especially productive) social wages for the common mass of society; But above all the end of the scandalous system in which the enemy turns the workers' own pension funds/money against the workers (simply so that this speculative class can skim of the top).

            The market (in case it needs to be said) is the mechanism for distribution (not Stalinist rationing) whilst production is socialised (via hegemony of socialist finance). Bourgeois market distribution must remain the norm until the aggregation of wealth created is so immense that social wages can sustainably become so great that the private wage ceases to be relevant.

            Through socialist hegemony it is not only possible but essential to assist the development of new capitalist enterprises (exploiting the ingenuity of petit-bourgeois inventors, managers and skilled workers), which in turn through pension contributions grow/evolve as co-op concerns within the framework of socialist finance (hegemony)- preventing finance capital ever again becoming a law unto itself - acting as a permanent bulwark against wasteful speculation/dividends (you cannot/should not prevent individual initiative, but you can/should insure for  certain that humanity derives the maximum benefit from it without any threat of a new military plutocracy arising).

    (Even though socialist finance is the Leviathan in the pool & the  dice are every way loaded in favor of its hegemony) this brings us to the prickly question of `are these new capitalist concerns to be allowed to pay low/austerity wages to their workers in order to build them up? And who is to (what mechanisms) dictate when and under what conditions this is acceptable?

            Minimum wage laws come under 2 headings:

The absolute minimum - Transgression of which is a capital offence- however low this may be (to be worked out later when all econ. info. is available- including on the external economic sabotage we will no doubt face).

A secondary minimum in which a list of conditional criteria come into being on a sliding scale.

 

List of Criteria

 

Increased contributions/share capital to the WPCs.

 

Emphasis to be on the technical reskilling of the workforce to trades-union recognised standards.

 

Emphasis on capital investment (also linked to 1).

 

Management to share as appropriate inthe sacrifices (including for global reconstruction etc). In any case managers are to be paid according to real market forces (according to real worth) not what they can get away with - as is the case now.

 

A punitive tax to be levied on dividends on private share capital in such enterprises - until workers' wages are raised to at least the secondary minimum.

            There is otherwise, an optimum rate of (taxable) return dependant on interest rates - in turn set at an optimum point to attract savings for PRODUCTIVE investment - under WPC control.

 

            Failure/refusal to meet the above criteria simply means the banks will wash their hands of them (in accordance with the WPC agenda/policy).

            They will not want to have anything to do with businesses that are not interested in reskilling/re-equipping as they are not viable long-term propositions.

            And as the WPC-controlled finance sector takes share capital instead of exorbitant interest rates, in firms it grants loans to (wether within Europe or the poorer parts of the global confederation), it is interested in their long-term viability and development; unlike today's finance mafia - which is concerned only with short-term returns perfectly regardless of the long-term costs to investment & reconstruction.

            But it must be re-emphasised that until the socialist hegemonic state (revolution) wins power, all sacrifices are sacrifices for the finance mafia and as such must be resisted totally.


The Socialist Welfare State

 

 

 

            The key tasks of a socialist welfare state are:

 

To raise funds for socialist accummalation - (for global reconstruction).

 

Income re-distribution - especially through an increasing hegemony of social wages over private wages and a basic wage - which with social wages acts to close the gap between richer & poorer over time.

 

Sharing the shite around more equitably - All sharing in work and sacrifices for future prosperity.

            With compulsory work and WPC controlled pay scales determining both a maximum and a minimum wage (expressed as a figure in direct proportionate relation to the minimum wage). Everyone is thence covered and shares in the benefits.

            Otherwise (as we shall examine/see later vis decomposition of the existing welfare state) continuing division between the overworked and unworked will lead to slavery for all (nuclear war/decomposition nothwithstanding). But as all will be covered, all will have a vested interest in the progressive/continuous shortening of hours etc.

 

            The key to everything is the Common Ownership of Information. The bonfire of all copyright laws.

            Instead of via private corps, capital flows into RnD through a process of layered development:

 

Educational establishments (including inventors, theoreticians etc),

produce new ideas/prototypes etc

 

Firms engaged in end user production (whose profits be taxed)

draw from the RnD of 1)

 

(WPC/Parliament) insures the recycling of profits to the beginning

 

            This means no more unwieldy lviathan corps (acting as investment banks to fund RnD), indeed this means their break up into optimal units of production. The death of corp/finance barony. For it be from info control/barony (inc corp secrecy) that their power and hence their exhorbitant renumeration be so derived.

            The control of info be the key to ALL, and the subordination of finance to the common ownership of information shall be the lynchpin of rev dem power (as we shall see in Vol II, the info society emerged in embryo under the hegemony of finance - will only be truly properly borne when finance be subordinated to the common ownership of information).

            Furthermore the private ownership & control of info (including via copyright) neccessitates a heirarchical society/military plutocratic nat sec state to protect it.

 

            Socialist hegemony requires increasing importance/weight of the social wage over the private wage. With a correesponding shortening of hours (reduction to an absolute minimum of neccessary compulsory work - social wages as hegemonic) increasingly (as conceptual labor/thinkers) we all (ever increasingly) must make our own work - with a merging of work, education & leisure. Made possible by the sharinig of social wages & benefits of info technology.

            Social pol/econ progress therefore depends on the accummalation of finance for its own sake being displaced by the accummalation of knowledge for its own sake (as  the only effective/legitimate basis for econ/social development).

            This is the only way to make the maximum of human productive potential - ALL being increasingly freed up to  become conceptual/knowledge workers.

            It be also neccessary for everyone to have free time for knowledge accummalation (the only thing/factor that should be  acquired for its own sake) to prevent/halt the development of the `Frankenstein Society'.

            That is development must be monitored & managed by a pro-active civil society - as opposed to, as at present, unaccountable finance determining development - on the basis of the short termist interests of individual corps, without regard to the wider social, economic & environmental consequances.

 

 

 

The Military Plutocratic System

 

            The military plutocratic system, the nation state construct, is no longer able to reconfigure itself via rev reform (in response to radical shocks - as seen in Vol I and we shall examine in greater detail later) has tended towarsd specaulation & re-armamanet in an effort to maintain operational control of the pol/econ agenda. This has led to global collapse and the spectre of classical fascism/nuclear warlodism - as elites resort to the last possible pol/econ options open to them in order to cling onto power.

            Yet it is precisely the bony hand  of oblivion (casting its shadow over 1st & 3rd world alike) that be the potential catalyst/spur for the rev pol/econ solution. Eg there can be no survival without geo pol/econ strategic stability, & there can be no stability without WARTIME sacrifices to further fund) reconstruction for all GLOBALLY VIA A GLOBAL COMMONWEALTH CONFEDERATION).

            We must be prepared to make sacrifices not only for our own reconstruction - but for the reconstruction of the whole world. Or else the nightmare in the East (and our own/W. European/USA etc nuclear fascism) shall overwhelm/destroy us ALL.

            The key solution lies in eradicating military plutocracy through:

 

Common ownership of information - as private ownership/control of info (inc copyright) neccessitates a heirarchical society/military plutocratic nat sec state to defend it.

 

A Commonwealth of the Regions - That the central power be delimited to perform ONLY those functions allowed it by the regions/constituent republics.

            That its' role be primarily a redistributive role - especially to aid development - to insure stability between the constituent parts of the federation - Preventing richer components choking on their own barbed wire, through militarised expenditure, in an effort to keep down the poorer.

            That this principle be extended outward to include all free nations in a (the disolution of the nation state must re-inforce the disolution of its military- plutocratic national security state function) Global Commonwealth Confederation and an eventual global union.


Failure of the Keynsian Welfare State

 

            The function of the Keynsian welfare state (in the core imperial states) was essentially to help stabilise capitalism as part of a package of rev reforms instituted in the post war period - to provide a basis for the reconfiguration of the (USA - led) core imperial global capitalist pol/econ.

            It accomplished this by re-distributing wealth from wealthier workers to poorer workers/unemployed - which in the (post WWII) period of long wave upswing (1941-68/74) helped to smooth out wild fluctuations in demand (`demand management') - making, over this long wave period; the relationship between demand, investment/production, demand cycles more stable than they otherwise would have been.

            However, while it was able to smooth out demand patterns from the workers, it did not overcome the fundamental problem of capitalist hegemony, which be its independance from civil society. Which over the expansionary long wave causes its productivity to rise faster than workers wages and social wages (real demand). This as we have seen, happens because the pressure of capital for growth in its assets or a return on its investments causes over accummalation - productivity to grow out of kilter with real demand.

            Which as capital reigns as a law unto itself, there be no mechanism to bring this production/real demand relationship back into kilter (for sustainable, stable & continuous growth) leads to a switch into speculative investments & the eventual total implosion of the whole system (once, as now, it has run out of geo pol/econ room to reconfigure itself - under leadership of a sufficiently powerful nation state, such as England/repeal of the Corn Laws or USA/FDR).

 

            Indeed the military plutocrats' violent opposition to enforcing income re-distribution (via WPCs control of finance freeing parliament to perform this function) further catalyses this problem, of the speculative over the productive - which further leads to a scorched earth economic policy (of the speculative against the productive).

            So that a problem emerging as a crisis of over accummalation/production, leads to the starvation of industry of funds for productive investment.

            We have seen that the breaking of capitalisms' hegemony over civil society is imperative to compel finance to serve civil society - to enable the raising of funds (via expropriation of ruling criminal elite - and only after/thence, further taxation of the populace) for socialist accummalation & income re-distribution (as well as sharing work more equitably) - to enable an evolving reduction of the  working week to free people up for education/to become knowledge workers.

            But with an ever increasingly greater emphasis on regressive taxation (hitting the poor harder) and taking the pressure of the wealthier corps, we see a number of phenonema leading to the failure & ultimately complete collapse of the remnants of the old Keynsian welfare state.

            The Keynsian welfare state is not a dynamic motor for social accummalation and re-distribution covering everyone (we have seen that re-distribution is imperative as a bulwark against speculation to maintain an equilibrium between socialist accummalation & real demand).

            Rather it is more closely akin to previous systems of poor relief. And as capitlaism implodes and the numbers using it rise, the  costs on workers in work become greater - creating resentment and further exacerbation of the fundamental problem of Keynsian welfare, that it is NOT a general means of soc accummalation - with means testing.

            And without WPC buttressed income re-distribution & with astronomical rates of benefit claw back (which be the inevitable consequance of means testing - in turn the consequance of Keynsian welfare not being about re-distribution/socialist accumalation) work frequantly doesn't pay - leading to the poverty trap and in turn the state compulsion/creation of a class of entrenched low paid workers dependant on welfare top ups - effectively the financing of a section of lumpen capitalism by workers/welfare state.

 

            But most criminal/damaging of all, be the way that workers' own pension contributions/investments be turned against them by the core elite on a generalised/hegemonic basis.

 

            The reason why state pension funds (+ N. I. contributions) were never invested properly (under democratic collective control - in industry) was because this would have meant collective private property would have eclipsed ruling elite private property.

            It was neccessary therefore, in order to preserve the sanctity of private property to facilitate the robbing of the collective property of the masses - in order to preserve the social institution of private property per se.

 

            Of course, the collective capital/property of the masses, in the hands of fund managers, is effectively turned against the masses - in the relentless drive for `efficiency' at the expense of (other) workers in a given firm/industry - regardless of wider econ repercussions.

            Hence workers capital is used to drive them onto the scrapheap/ cut their wages/ force them to work ridiculously longer hours (when technology can/should be shortening them)/ drive up land values (giving them mortgage/rent headaches) fueling credit booms, as the prelude to a credit crunch/collapse - for which destructive criminality they pick up the tabs, in their other guise as the taxpayer.

            (such a policy as is well known, makes sense for the individual corp - but is madness in general terms/consequances)

            So that a bunch of fund managers/speculators and the like, can pressurise the state/govt they have bought, to pressurise these same workers to resign themselves to still shittier pay and conditions - as these sharks skim of the top - all, to be sure, in the name of efficiency and progress.

 

            Such is the enourmity of the damage they do, out of all proportion, (much greater) even to their inflated bonuses, it would be cheaper to dig a great big pit and bury them alive with £10 notes.

            Nevertheless let us not forget that even after the firing squad has done its job, we are still left with the task of reconstruction - for which sacrifices under the militarised control of the working classes will be neccessary, in order to finance it.

 

            As we have seen the only way to resolve the contradiction of Keynsian system is to bring finance under WPC control and make a (the socialist) welfare state genuinely universal - covering everyone to provide funds for soc accummalation and also with a key priority of income re-distribution (including maximum as well as minimum wages - balancing accummalation/production with real demand for truly sustainable growth)

            including via social wages including social housing as a critical bulwark against land speculation - which is a primary factor in global finance capitals' implosion.

           

            But the core elite have an alternative to Keynsain welfare and the socialist welfare state.

            having deployed the welfare state (a la Reagan/Thatcher) in conjunction with military, credit booms and oil booms disrespectively to smooth the break up of organised labor (used unemployment to break the unions - Alan Clark) and transition to fully fledged speculator regimes - a process partially completed worldwide/catalysed by USA/Britains' decomposition; the next major stage of degenerative development (nuclear warlordism notwithstanding) will be (private corp run) `Social Inclusion Training Centres'. Or if you prefer unvarnished English, Slavery.

            Already private corp jail labor is shaping up as a significant factor and it will assume much greater proportions as the (collapse of welfare feeds into an exponential) rise in crime/prison population leads to (demands to cut costs & therefore) jails becoming self financing (eg California currently spends more on prisons than on education) - and ultimately (as process takes hold) profitable institutions in their own right - This would in turn blur the distinction between `free' and slave to the point that they become meaningless. Though a general collapse into warlordism is likely long before then.


The Global Civil War &

The Socialist Nation State Stockade

 

 

 

            Q: `How do we know we will NOT end up with a Giant (British) Serbia, starring the author in the role of Slobodan Milosevic (clinging to power by pointing to a very real enemy encircling the beleagured state)?'

 

            Because the British rev movement is defined entirely by its relationship to Europe & (more intermittantly) the USA.

            It can only come  into being (as a stockade state) by the Battle of Berlin - as such, if any aspirant Stalinists even tried to sit on their haunches behind barbed wire, they would be swept away by the frenzied revanchist forces which otherwise would subordinate Britain as an adjunct of a German EU in mortal conflict with the USA anyway (vis trade war/ global pol/econ implosion) or vis a versa (to say nothing of the revanchist military plutocrats exploiting chaos in Ulster to crush the pretensions of any purely British revolution - it is `Europe or Death').

            Therefore, victory or death is decided in Germany. The fullest cooperation of the Germanic citizenry in the construction of FSC Europe, is the only way to avoid the oblivion we are in any case all headed towards anyway (via trade war/ global implosion/ the indirect oil war in the Balkans war gathering its own momentum/ Russia's warlordist break up).

            Therefore the real power is in the hands of the I-Bs. For any aspiring Milosevic to try to hold them back, would be to sign their own death warrant, by a new revolution & an unforgiving USA/ German & same backed Quisling elite (incidently my place will always be at the front - I couldn't opt out of this without committing political suicide - being gunned down by I-Bs outraged at such treason from me, as well as fascists).

 

            The common ownership of information will be treated as war by the regime.

            The Q we will put before the whole world is `Are you willing to support permanent/suicidal war for the military plutocrats, for their monopoly of information, to keep you in penury?

            In so doing the enemy will be forced to engage us on our political territory.

            To re-iterate, the new theory works like a hydrogen bomb.

            Throughout the rev pol campaign, the I-Bs be the equivalent of the high explosive, whose blood sacrifice/compression on the rev pol idea, The common ownership of info (on the consciousness of humanity) creates a critical situation.

            Their nominal defeat paves the way for the political discrediting /delegitimising of the regime (shadow insurrection) and therefore its militaty overthrow. This be the DNA of the new rev pol dialectic.

            But it also be parrallel vis the core powers against (any) rev stockade states.

            After I-B engagement(against classical fascism at the core), should the military plutocrats even defeat rev stockade states (in punitive response)through their very victory over us, the last of their legitimacy, their strength is consumed - as they reveal themselves truly the sole enemy of their own people paving the way for their overthrow & global victory. - So in war, the Commonwealth be borne.

            The starkest reality be, that not only rev cadres, but indeed the nation must stake itself - For if it does not, the chaos of military plutocracy's implosion of nuclear, biological & chemical warlordism, shall annihilate it for certain. It must embrace this most terrible peril, to have any hope of survival at all.

            This be a new type of war & should be seen for what it is, a state of global civil war, in which the survival until the vanquishing of all fascist forces is the primary objective to which the socialist nation state be subordinate.

            It be most likely, that the most desperate econ war measures be required simply in order for the state to hold out until victory at the core.

            But that said, there be a number of pol/econ measures integral to the process of global civil war, which the rev state can/must take to defend/entrench itself & aid revolt at the core. Indeed so that ultimately, even if the core regime mounts a successful punitive assault on rev stockade states (eg via missile attacks etc), in retaliation for I-B assaults on classical fascists in core states, the regime succeeds only in convincing the masses at the core that military plutocracy be the masses worst enemy - paving the way for its overthrow.

            While for military econ reasons survival as an isolated socialist stockade will not be possible for any length of time, we must make the best of what little we have. Central to this be an honest appraisal of the predicament we (in Britain, for example) will find ourselves in and what we must begin to do. And even victory in Europe/worldwide will not be the end of it. the tasks of global reconstruction will require WARTIME sacrifices to finance them. Our victory is bound up with an understanding of these tasks, before and after victory, from the begininng.

 

 

 

RECONSTRUCTION

 

 

Our Meagre Inheritance

 

            We have outlined the WARTIME sacrifices required to stabilise the global pol/econ, eg on a global commonwealth confederal basis, to prevent the core states chokingon their own barbed wire.

            Now we analyse some of the priorities/ problems the Revolution will have to confront in addition to its ultimate core objective.

 

            In Britain, We will inherit a country with the smallest productive base of any of the (nominally) first world nations. Which has since the abolition of exchange controls exported over £10Billion (net) of capital every year since 1979.

            In which the oil bonanza was used to artificially prop up the currency (for the short-term benefit of money-jugglers/speculators - as in Mexico & Venezuala),sucking in imports decimating large swathes of what remained of our indigenous industry. And as Tory ex-minister Alan Clark confirms, A deliberate policy of high unemployment to punish the unions  (& drive down wages)

            In which the over development of & reliance on the military-industrial complex was criminally aided by the secret state & financiers (at the expense of civil industry & development) profiteering from contracts with (arming) criminal regimes around the world (eg. Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, China, Burma, Khmer Rouge etc etc - the role of ICI who armed Adolf Hitler has been kept schtum, only the small fry like Bmarc and Matrix Churchill have so far been exposed). While industries like mining were (at a cost well over £10Billion, for strategic class reasons-) butchered (so that privatised and USA controlled electricity corps could import coal produced by child & slave labor) and miners bribed/blackmailed with their own pension money into taking early redundancy .

            In which, thanks to the legacy of the speculative land/house price & credit expansion, if any govt embarked on a serious program of badly needed social house construction - the (still) inflated prices of houses would fall through the floor revealing (not causing) the structural bankruptcy endemic in our financial institutions.

            In short we will inherit an economic nightmare. A bankrupt state with precious little civil industrial capacity and a crumbling infrastructure. Surrounded by hostile regimes.

            Virtually all far-left elements are playing a highly dangerous role in fostering the illusion that `After the socialist revolution...' wages can be increased dramatically - regardless of the objective difficulties we (as a temporarily isolated socialist republic) will face, regardless of the bankrupt economy we will inherit.

            They are fond of plucking out paper figures to show that such increases are viable eg. `£50 billion of profit per year made by capitalism'. But how much of this was healthy industrial profit that could simply be shifted from share dividends to higher wages?

            And how much was the mere paper profit of that legalised fraud of share speculation where share capital (increases the more is squandered on dividends meaning less for real investment/productive potential) actually falls the lower the dividend is and the more is ploughed back into real investment - compelling industry to cannibalise existing capital (neccessary to reproduce itself) to stave of takeovers and satisfy the short-term dividend frenzy of the finance houses?

            How much of this paper profit  is ultimately dependent on inflated land/rent/house values in turn dependant on the outrageous shortage of habitable housing? For we have a situation in which if tomorrow  a govt. any govt announced the construction of a massive expansion of social housing, house and land prices (and with them the paper asset values held by the major institutions) would drop like a stone, revealing (not causing) institutional bankruptcy and latent hyper-inflation in the British economy (currently cosmetically concealed by the housing shortage - which sustains the artificially high asset values held by the institutions).

            But no revolutionary govt can maintain this socially and economically destructive shortage merely in order to preserve this paper fiction of economic solvency, still based on scarcity, upon which (big business and ) the Marxists base their myopic hopes.

            What also of the hot money which is artificially propping up the currency? When this is withdrawn at the first sign of rebellion exacerbating rapidly our `hard' currency deficit (which to be sure is or will be continuously increased  a la Latin America, only more slowly by high interest payments); true the currency is still overvalued but this withdrawal will trigger hyper-inflation. What of the export of capital in anticipation of trouble, of the external financial sabotage we will face, the recalling of secret loans in accordance with secret agreements? Have the Marxists factored all this in their rosy vision?

            (We have examined the causes of this shortsightedness before and shall do so again in `The rise of Stalinism')

 

 

Our Tasks 

 

            This is not to say that there is any alternative to the financier/speculator regime other than revolution, there isn't. Tomorrow things will be worse, the day after worse still. Until we have sunk so deep into the abyss that we will never be able to influence our own pol/econ fate, as the global pol/econ enters a tailspin.

            But our emphasis must thrice be on civil reconstruction at all costs under workers' control. On anticipating beforehand the truly miserable inheritance of the revolution and through pol/econ education preparing the masses for the sacrifices neccessary to finance reconstruction. Either they shall endure wage cuts & tax increases for reconstruction or continue to endure real wage cuts & tax increases for short-term dividends & speculation. But if we take power, they will not thank us for having lied to them about what was really possible. And political demoralisation among the workers and illusions in the old regime (particularly and violently expressed by the  petit-bourgeois) will grow. For if things were so bad, why didn't we warn them? Why did we lie, `for their own good'? Or `if things were not so bad it must be `our' fault'.

            A key part of our education campaign must be the forcing of the old-crooks to explain clearly to the masses what they have done with national/ global wealth. Opening up the books, putting the crooks on trial, hanging some and making others go round the workplaces/colleges (under armed guard for their own protection) in a `MEET THE BOSSES' campaign, so as to dispel any myth/illusion that these scum have anything left to offer (by way of an alternative) save more criminality.

            But to re-emphasise, we will only cut wages & raise taxes after squeezing every last available drop of profit (currently squandered on share dividends) and re-investing it in industrial & infrastructural and human capital. However it is in some areas possible to increase living standards, but not by an increase in the paper private wage (we in any case need a complete structural re-alignment of our financial system so that the currency serves as a true measure of value, rather than - as is currently the case - an object of speculative false values), but rather through a planned increase in the social wage; which in many respects would have a duel character of increasing productive potential/human capital and living standards.

            Key social wage targets (IT SHOULD BE STATED THAT WE ARE ONLY ABLE TO CONSOLIDATE THE FOLLOWING PRIMARY OBJECTIVES WITH THE GLOBAL VICTORY ) include:

 

 

Cheap Housing

 

Massive increase in social housing so that the only cost borne by tenants through (low) rents, is that neccessary to recuperate the real cost of construction and not the artificial speculative values (in land and buildings). Which also manifest themselves (to varying degrees) at every layer of the productive and retail processes.

 

 

Cheap Food

 

Scrap CAP. Place under WPC control largest agricultural concerns (and large land-holdings) and encourage voluntary collectives/co-ops on the rest (encourage 3rd world agriculture exports, to aid their EFFECTIVE integration into the global commonwealth  confederation/ federation). Produce cheapest possible food for consumption not destruction.

 

Cheap Public Transport

 

Massive construction of integrated transport systems. Heavily subsidised public transport as an alternative to congestion (over-emphasis on private transport-cars) costing close to £10billion a year in London alone (CBI figures).

 

High Tech-Re-education/Reconstruction

 

(In a high tax/ high public resource system) Gear the European/ global economy to funding continuous re-education, increasing productive potential and access to info. both strengthening democracy and raising culture & living standards.

 

Free Childcare

 

Utilise on a voluntary basis (in exchange for extra wages and social wages) the elderly to look after children, freeing women for work and study and increasing aggregate national output.

 

            By reducing and stabilising the basic cost of living necessities such as rent and food, over the long-run domestic demand increases (as people have more disposable income, due to falling accommodation costs) even though nominal paper wages actually fall - giving a boost to domestic and allied state's industry.

            As for the much vaunted enemy idea that there can be `no job for life'. Insofar as this is true; due to the necessarily increasing rapid development of technology/need to continuously update skills (although this is also used, ever increasingly as a techno-bollocks justification for squeezing more out of fewer people with often falling investment), this further illustrates the need to blur the distinction between re-education and employment cycles (to stabilise standards of living). Something that can only be done with increasingly higher social wages and declining (relative) dependency on private wages so as not to cause periodical catastrophic drops in living standards with wider (fatal) economic repercussions. unless of course, the finance sharks mean by this that they are also happy to accept `no mortgage repayments for life'.

 

            (The precise details of the econ program must be worked out by the movement as a whole when all the relevant econ info is available - The precise details of the above program are not set in concrete, they are principally intended as a guide to the way the movement should be thinking in the context of our abysmal economic inheritance - we invite contributions from others on this & any other Qs)

 

 

 

Economic Warfare & the Revolution

 

 

The Q of Foreign Ownership

 

The complexity or simplicity of this Q is largely  determined by wether or not the legitimacy Q is still a factor in the Euro/ global civil war; or wether the  old pseudo legitimate military plutocratic formations have merged with Caesarist formations. In the latter  case, all out  rev war negates  this Q as a factor, in a general free for all (ultimately  this WILL certainly be the case).

 

            Ostensibly it sounds like a clever idea to just confiscate everything owned by foreign (as well as domestic) finance capital. However this approach should be treated with extreme caution, for the following reasons:

 

Over the decades Britain has exported vast amounts of its own capital abroad far more than foreign corps have invested in Britain. If we nick theirs they will automatically nick ours.

 

Many of the foreign companies in Britain are little more than shells/assembly plants. Others are entirely dependant on foreign contracts with parent companies, eg. component manufacturers.

 

These corps can more usefully be used as bargaining chips- eg. `we will exchange this for that and offset that foreign asset (of ours) against this part of our national debt'. If they refuse to recognise a given foreign asset as ours we may (and if the balance of forces determines that this is the best/least worst option) confiscate such an asset (in Britain) anyway.

 

In public negotiations we have an extra advantage/chance to reveal to the international masses what scumbags/evil pacts their ruling classes have made with our bourgeois (eg. the secret deals over the ERM and recognition - by Britain -  of Croatia/Bosnia without guarantees on the rights of minorities- leading to bloody war/secession and the expansion of German hegemony in the region - Or the £6Billion EU loan to Boris Yeltsin to bankroll his murder of Chechnya - aiding Russia's fascist evolution/descent into nuclear fuedalism, just so the resource & finance mafia can make one last killing - mirroring Britain's arming of Adolf Hitler in the 1930's). This will help build the revolutionary movement abroad and help us get the best possible price for our foreign assets & concessions on debt inherited. Alternatively it will maximise the stink of the international ruling classes to their masses, assisting further the revolutionary process.

 

If we dont engage the enemy this way, they will have an extra excuse to put the squeeze on us. Eg. `Why should we let the British of their debt' (as they demand immediate repayment) `should we make similar concessions to all other that owe us money? Then we will be bankrupt' - Confusing a sizeable section of the masses who'll think (perhaps reluctantly) that this sounds reasonable. They will also be in a better position to kill us of with loaded trading patterns.

 

            We should However:

 

Provisionally seize or place under armed workers' guard such assets pending negotiations.

 

Ensure that no capital or machinery physically leaves the country pending negotiations.

 

Open up all files on all (especially dodgy) secret corporate/state agreements and invite international workers' delegations to observe these.

 

Call for public negotiations at which foreign workers' delegations are allowed to attend/ask questions of us and their regimes . In order to reveal to them the criminality of their regimes and exploit public forum to) propose a viable revolutionary economic alternative (to the reign of the capital markets), based on civil society control of finance via WPCs & redistributive global commonwealth confederation (to avoid afore mentioned apocalyptic threats outlined in Chapter 1).

            They will of course attempt to strangle us anyhow, we must seek what geo allies we can & adopt planned bi-lateral trade (as pre Euro Revolution, we are not in a position to control global  econ via WPC control of global finance), as we attempt to survive.

            It is imperative that every revolutionary understands that these are not `optional extras' but integral and indispensable parts of continuous operationally globalised revolutionary-political warfare.

 

 

 

Copyright/ trade/ finance & the GCC

 

Nightmare scenario:

 

            We invite (or they choose of their own volition) 3rd world to rip up British debts, they do so (with CIA encouragement) - bourgeois plutocracies (in L. America/ elsewhere) is strengthened, OUR state (in rev Britain) is gravely undermined WITHOUT any geo political weight in our favor.

 

            We need obviously to insist on a multilateralist approach to debt defaulting (as an absolute precondition for acceptance) eg NOT just defaulting on rev states (inherited) debts, but remaining military plutocracies (eg USA etc) to create a geo pol/econ backdraft fuelling the global revolution in 3rd/ 1st world alike.

 

            & just as the IMF imposes pol/econ conditions for:

 

Recinding old debts

 

(Future) reciept of new loans

 

            - we must do the same, on a rev dem basis, demanding that finance be subordinated tp civil society (see rev constitutional framework in Chapter 4) & incorporation of said state into the framework of the Global Commonwealth confederation (GCC).

            Within the GCC, there be the complete abandonment of all protectionist measues (between memebers of the GCC) combined with the redistributive mechanism of the GCC framework (funding investment/ development) to insure evolving geo pol/econ balance/equilibrium vis finance unedr the heemony of global civil society.

            Again, we cannot open the limited market of a beleagured socialist state(s)  moreover  fighting for its/their survival, to 3rd world capitalists, especially without any corresponding hegemonic re-inforcement of rev civil society in the 3rd world. For  ALL we would achieve thence, is a tendancy to reverse the  colonial relationship, & global finance will still be the master.

             This is the reason why we must impose conditions on recinding of debts built up by the L. American tyrants & our pseudl legitimate military plutocracy - we cannot tolerate the hegemony of finance as a law unto itself creeping back in by the back door.

            Eg if you do not play by OUR game, we will pursue you according to the rules of the bourgeois game you have chosen to play by (eg to the charge of `Revolutionary Imperialism', we point out that your penury  was fully the  product of a regime your elites subscribe  to/ collaborated with & would conspire to impose on 3rd & 1st world civil society alike).

 

Q.         WHAT is the difference between copyright & finance issues in rev war?

 

A.         Vis info piracy, we rely on the rev (cyber) underground (our E. India corp), if we subvert the underground by applying  the  same precepts we will/ must to finance/ trade, we will subvert our own stockade state/  revolution.

 

 

 

Immigration & 3rd world aid/trade

(& the political economy of racism)

 

            The key point we must deal with is that, historically the logic has been thus far, if you oppose immediate unrestricted immigration, by sheer default, you found yourself a few degrees removed from, but in essentially the same camp as those argiung for `repatriation' - aiding the military plutocracy in its `wog' bashing to create a false enemy away rom its crimes.

            Our concern is how to avoid either suicidal approach, and fix a centre of rev pol/econ gravity that can (and must) be consolidated.

            The threat of military plutocracy and how best to avoid it - through the re-distributive commonwealth principle shapes our entire approach to this (and all other) Q.

            Therefore our rev pol/econ policy will be geared towards balanced aid/immigration. As our avoidance of military plutocracy is dependant on the prosperity of the 3rd world. This means that in the first period after the revolution, policy will be heavily weighted towards development of the 3rd world - To avoid the mass migration of uneducated masses (to areas with finite resources anyway). A potential econ drain which on the basis of the present system, can only be countered by the worse solution of choking on our own barbed wire via the military plutocratic nat sec state.

            The rev commonwealth in turn requires a geo pol/econ construct running parrallel to the internal construct of the rev states (vis redistribution for social wages/development) determining that a progressive proportion  of especially higher incomes/surplus profits via taxation, goes to this development - coupled with a bi-lateral construct to (& the commonwealth of info) assisting this development (to halt the impetus to mass migration of uneducated masses to areas with such finite resources anyway - with its catastrophic pol/econ consequanes).

 

            ALL controls on immigration can/must be lifted once a state of relative/managed global econ equillibrium has been attained (this will be a progressive linear process anyway). Thence (to delight any Daily Mail readers reading this), the world shall become a truly global melting pot.

(refer also to:

Green Revolution,

the Immigration Q

& the Common Ownership of Info

 - from Chapter 1)

 

    Post revolution, A sliding scale should be established (in the richer states) between completely free immigration & WARTIME sacrifices for reconstruction. The less  sacrifices, the freer the immigration, the more  tight the immigration, the greater the sacrifices for GLOBAL reconstruction.

        SHOULD ANYONE ATTEMPT TO GERRYMANDER THE FORMULA BY SETTING UP A FORTRESS EUROPE, WITH NOMINAL SACRIFICES, PAYING MERE LIPSERVICE TO THE GLOBAL COMMONEALTH CONFEDERATION, A MILITARY PLUTOCRATIC REACTION WITHIN THE STATE SHALL GAIN GROUND & CORRESPONDINGLY BE FACED WITH A VIOLENT REVOLUTIONARY COUNTER OFFENSIVE, THE DREAD FEAR OF CIVIL WAR SHALL BE AN ADEQUATE  CHECKING MECHANISM INSURING THAT ATTEMPTS TO CRIMINALLY GERRYMANDER THE FORMULA ARE FIRMLY PUT DOWN, THE REVOLUTIONARY CONSENSUS WILL BE (EVEN IF RELUCTANT), SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH/ ENFORCE RECONSTRUCTIONIST ORDER.

 

            But how do we deal with this Q prior to the seizure of power/establishment of the Socialist Commoonwealth?

 

            As stated to support the current limitations inevitably buttresses a right wing pol/econ agenda, with its hue and cry of `wog' bashing - the setting up of a false enemy for white workiing class youth (& others) to distract attention from ruling class robbery - the disproportionate waste of the talents of skilled/highly trained Blacks/asians bears testimony to this fact.

            However (as seen) there is a limit to the number of low skilled immigrants a rev  commonwealth (and more so a besieged rev stockade state) can absorb. So it should be made crystal clear that even under a rev govt., some restrictions/limitations will have to apply.

            For the simple reason that the national resources we will inherit are desperately finite. And just as it would be ridiculous to demand that a British revolutionary army single-handedly liberate every colonial state from great power tyranny by purely military means (with total disregard for the balance of forces), so it would be equally absurd to suggest that we can absorb everyone that may wish to live in Britain. The enemy will  seize upon every available opportunity (especially that we give them) to sabotage the revolution. Even to the point of `helping' us by sending us ships (free of charge) of unskilled immigrants (promised a better future in Britain by the imperialists) in order to drown the revolution in a mass of desperate humanity.

            If this sounds ultra-inflammatory, does anyone seriously believe that the French regime, responsible for the Rwandan massacre -  the USA govt, which runs Fort Benning a military academy specially dedicated to training Latin American military officers in the art of military/fascist coups d'etat, genocide (liasing with landowners and drug barons) has built up a huge nuclear arsenal to blackmail the world with threat of oblivion in order to enforce its global hegemony (see indictment in chapter 1) etc - or the German govt responsible for instigating the carve-up in Bosnia, Tudjman/Susak's ustashe tyranny, or the regimes that have risked the very survival of the human race by bankrolling Yeltsins' murder of Chechnya - & Russia's fascizing process/descent into nuclear fuedalism (just as Britain's ICI armed Adolf Hitler) - simply so that their resource and finance mafia can make one last killing, will have ANY compunction about such methods?  Especially if they are consistent with OUR program?

            For we will do the masses of the 3rd world no favors, if we allow the revolution to be drowned in blood by some fascist junta riding to power on a wave of pogroms - due to an economically insane, lopsided immigration policy.

    With this in mind we must give notice that we are prepared (as & when the occassion demands) to execute CIA aided organised traffickers, seeking to undermine our Revolution in rev stockade states.

 

            UNTIL the Global Commonwealth Confederation (GCC) is established, the antifascist centre (against reaction) is held together by WAR against fascism (the Battle of Berlin, see/ refer back to scenarios/ framework outlined in chapters 1 & 2) &our policy is NOT to encourage people to flee,  but to stand & fight fascism. Correspondingly our (military) pol/econ priority/ policy is geared to supporting those that stand & fight/ WARTIME sacrifices for global reconstruction.

 

            POST Revolution, racial antipathy will likely increase due to massive WARTIME sacrifices (to finance GLOBAL reconstruction), but will be held in check (within the SAME individuals) by the exponentially greater PRIMARY consciousness/ knowledge, that if they don't endure such sacrifices, its THEIR arse threatened with oblivion (as outlined in Chapter 1). As the global pol/econ stabilises establishes relative equilibrium, racism corresspondingly evaporates, ceases to be a factor (a curious phenonemon, racism increasing post Revolution, YET global consciousness grows exponentially more, keeping it in check/ ultimately eradicating it).

            The  notion that racism can be viewed/ treated as a freestanding concept has no meaning/ validity whatever. Racism is based on the complacency,  the belief that it is possible for a section of humanity to prosper/ thrive directly via or merely incidently with, the degradation of another. But as we can see NOW, with USA/ Euro whites themselves threatened with oblivion (as outlined in Chapter 1), this is no longer the case, they be obliged to wage war against complacency in society generally (& within themselves) for global reconstruction to secure their own survival.(other issues eg equal employment, are essentially auxilliary to this core rev principle & wholly dependant on its  consolidation  to avoid reversal)

    It is self evidantly the ACME of insanity to imagine racism can be eclipsed in anything other than a militarised global (reconstructionist) pol/econ context, forged around the common threats/ objectives facing humanity - with finance serving civil society instead of  of civil society in  chains before finance.

           

            But until the rev stockade state, we should attack the regimes' immigration on a procedural & a case by case basis - but MUCH more critically, highlight the fact that the military plutocratic enemy be the same scum waging war on us as well as the 3rd world. And this shall be (with the rev commonwealth solution) the centre of gravity that shall hold stable policies, the rev movement and the whole world together.

 

(refer also to:

Green Revolution,

the Immigration Q

& the Common Ownership of Info

 - from Chapter 1)

 

As for `morality' when (as elaborated earlier, vis global econ crash &  collapse of the Ulster peace boom, leading to political warlordism - as elites attempt to retain control of the pol/econ agenda) 10,000s of white catholics are slaughtered in Ulster, mainland Blacks & Asians (including the author) will be so much dogmeat, UNLESS a VIABLE rev military geo pol/econ  framework is established. Those that are NOT preparing for civil war against this fascism, have absolutely no moral right to denounce as racist those that are.

 

 

Foreign Policy

(insofar as this has not already been covered)

 

The Federated Socialist Republics of Great Britain (any rev stockade state) will face a sustained and carefully orchestrated campaign of external economic sabotage, military provocation (aimed initially at the dependencies) and terrorism designed to bring about panic in the populace and pave the way for a military-fascist coup/takeover.

            With this in mind it is neccessary for the revolutionary federation to take all practical military/political measures to minimise and counter-act the external counter-revolutionary threat eg.:

 

A 2nd Dunkirk.

            Pull back all military hardware/resources to secure the defence of the British Isles. Immediately evacuate the Falkland Isles and lay contingency plans for the evacuation of Gibralter and other dependencies. Strengthen coastal defences.

 

An all-out political offensive.

            Make maximum political capital out of expediency (eg, our principled withdrawal from the Falklands due to Thatchers' deployment of nuclear weapons in the conflict) without trying to pretend that this is our preferred option. Our best/preferred option would be to hold onto the islands until the Argentine revolution has strung up its' junta/CIA collaborators/state and corporate criminals. This unfortunately is utterly impractical without revolutionary American or Russian help (Thatcher only won last time because of USA assistance).

            Release all secret pol/econ info and challenge the enemy to do the same. The British revolutionary govt to stick its' nose all over the world where its' not wanted to assist the international revolution by:

Political intervention  in disputes/conflicts and appeals to the international masses (plenty of scope viz the role of global finance in the 3rd world and in the major powers etc).

Pushing an alternative economic and trade agenda.

Establish an international alternative info source/base through the Internet and international news media.

 

Above all, SURVIVAL depends on establishing the pan commonwealth campaign. Therefore NO holding back the Intenationalist  Brigades. (All else are mere short term strategic moves to aid the revolutionary campaign/ buy time & space for  temporary survival).