Dear all,

A special thanks to all those new people who have signed the Call. The facebook group is now 520 strong. 350 people, many of them trade union activists, youth and those active in a range of campaigns have signed the Call online or in person.

Please continue to build on what we have done so far. Download the petition from this email, take the Call to your union branch, workplace, campaign organisation and encourage your friends to join us on facebook.

Please also check out the new material on our blog.

10 things an anticapitalist party could do

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Antifascism: a new way forward written by John Tummon, from the Oldham Race Equality Partnership

There will be more from us shortly as we publish the debate that took place at Workers Power’s anticapitalism event which took place in the middle of last month on How to build a new anticapitalist party.

Solidarity,

John
Call for a New Anticapitalist Party
anticapitalistparty@gmail.com
http://www.anticapitalistparty.org.uk

1. Inspire thousands of disillusioned people across the country that there is an alternative to poverty, war and exploitation caused by capitalism
2. Produce a national, anticapitalist daily paper of the working class
3. Get far more media coverage on the TV, radio and newspapers to challenge the lies of the capitalist mainstream politicians
4. Fight for mass workers’ action in the trade unions against cuts in jobs, pay and conditions, and do this far more effectively than any existing left grouping. Challenge the union leaders when they hold back action.
5. Provide a forum for debate and discussion. Use links in the unions and universities to provide working class analyses of government policy, the economy, social research etc.
6. Stand in national and local elections to put out a socialist message to the millions, and counter the racism of parties like the BNP and UKiP
7. Organise the unorganised ­– provide local centres for unemployed youth
8. Fight the corner of those who aren’t represented: migrant workers, single-mums, the elderly, school and college students, etc.
9. Show the true meaning of internationalism. Link up with and stand in solidarity with the struggles of workers and youth all over the world
10. Organise everyone, not just at the polling booths but on the streets and picket lines to struggle against the effects of the crisis and to overthrow the system of capitalism that caused it.

John

Call for a new anticapitalist party