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A socialist manifesto for Labor

By Marko Beljac - posted Monday, 18 November 2013


This is because only a participatory labour movement would seek to address the source of the inequality in power between corporate owners and managers on the one hand and workers on the other. It is this mismatch in power that accounts for social stratification and inequality in a capitalist society. It is participatory grass roots unions, not clan dominated fiefs, that would take up the banner of workers self management.

I propose that the socialists of the Labor Party, but also those of democratic temper without, should unite together and try to make all this, and more, happen. The forces arraigned against us are powerful. We live but only once; surely it is worth the candle.

Let us develop our own intellectual and activist circle; let us rethink socialism itself; let us rethink the role of politics and the political party; let us rethink trade unionism; let us rethink international relations.

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Having rethought them let us fight to bring them about.

That is our challenge.

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Mark Beljac teaches at Swinburne University of Technology, is a board member of the New International Bookshop, and is involved with the Industrial Workers of the World, National Tertiary Education Union, National Union of Workers (community) and Friends of the Earth.

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