We Truly Are The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

No, I'm not voting. I'm not even going to walk down to the polling station and scribble on the ballot paper. I'm not even going to write TUSC in big letters right across it, or A in a circle for anarchy as someone on Twitter just threatened to do.

I'm not voting because (a) there is no TUSC candidate for my county council and (b) I agree with the old adage/cliché about not voting for THEM because it only encourages them. By them I mean the so-called mainstream parties. That phrase immediately puts better parties or individuals into the category marked "other", just like organic food is marketed as the alternative to "conventionally farmed produce". Socialism is in the "other box". I mean real socialism, not Labour. I mean real people power with us, the workers, taking control of our lives and sharing in the world's resources instead of giving, yes giving, the best of what we produce to the rich.

We truly are the ragged trousered philanthropists. Out of the goodness of our hearts, apathy or ignorance of a better way of doing things, we give wealth to the most undeserving people on the planet. We work, we sweat and die die early, so the rich can reap the benefits of our labour. The rich, the ones who inherit wealth  handed down to them, know nothing about real work. And to rich bosses work means going to a board meeting, shouting orders at minions, making phone calls or getting irate at servants but most of all doing sweet Fanny Adams.

Voting is all a façade to shut us up, to stop us making a fuss. We're not participating in democracy, we are allowing ourselves to be fooled year after year, generation after generation. We will never know freedom from wars, starvation and exploitation until capitalism is destroyed. Voting for THEM keeps capitalism alive, albeit with different nuances, different excuses and different priorities.

So why would I vote for TUSC? Simply because they are the best party to represent the interests of the working class, of which I am a very proud member. The TUSC is the only party of no cuts and committed to renationalisation of the transport system and utilities. If you go to work, if you have to work to survive, you are working class. Whether you work or not, if you are dependent on wages or paltry benefits, you are working class. Be proud of that fact.

Ultimately the answer lies not in the ballot box but in  you and I taking back what is rightly ours.The rich have had their turn and look what they have done to our planet and continue to do; gold and diamond mining, fracking, digging for oil in the arctic regions, nuclear power and warfare, the evil arms trade, the destruction of ancient woodlands and rain forests, and the deaths of men, women and children in factories producing cheap clothes for our high street stores (we all love a blood stained bargain don't we?)

To save the planet and to stop killing other people in the name of so called defence, capitalism must die. Start taking peaceful action to make this a better world.  Resist, question, argue, stand together and start saying no. Forget the timewasting, attention distracting petitions and surveys.

The so called mainstream"representatives" will never make this a better world. Never.