Unity! Women's TUC 2013 by Communist Party

Unity!

Communists at the TUC Women’s Conference March 2013

Morning Star circulation manager Bernadette Keaveney writes Dear Sisters To all of you reading the Morning Star during the Women’s TUC I would like to thank you for your support – long may it continue. To those of you that haven’t, let me explain why this paper is so important to the women’s movement. The Morning Star is the only national daily paper that reports on the issues day in and day out; issues that concern you as a trade unionist and family member. We do not have pages devoted to help you style your hair, lose weight, choose the right clothes but we do have a commie chef column on a Saturday. We cover international news including how trade unions are fighting austerity measures in

Robbing the poor to feed the rich

other countries. We have film and book

No austerity for fat cats by Anita Wright

bonuses the bankers will go elsewhere, a

Cameron and Osborne’s refusal to

at Switzerland which has operated a form of

saying that to make the rich work

business know other ways to put money in

cap bankers' bonuses calls to mind the

notion disputed even by bankers (just look capping for years). The barons of big

harder you have to pay them more

their pockets through share options and

you pay them less.

created, many of us would welcome their

and to make the poor work harder As public sector workers, the majority

women, face another year of pay freeze; as the unemployed struggle to ﬁnd work; as

pension pots. Given the economic mess they exodus. It also illustrates the serious problem that the British economy is heavily dependent on

reviews, sports and all the other items that you expect from a newspaper but never

thousands of families are hit by changes to

ﬁnance capital, the result of successive

images of people being demeaned. We have

the beneﬁt system, and child poverty rises to

governments’ deliberate destruction of

never needed to campaign to stop Page 3

unprecedented levels, the decision not to

manufacturing industry.

inside the Morning Star

freeze bonuses adds insult to injury. Having bailed out the banks with public

When factories close and more and more

As women we need to get the paper carrying

men and women are made unemployed the

far more articles about us. It is difficult for the

money, we are now expected to allow

whole community is aﬀected. High street

paper when the Tory/Lib Dem cabinet is

senior bankers to inﬂate their incomes even

shops close because no one has any money

comprised of mainly men and most of our

when their bank makes a loss or proﬁts go

to spend.

trade unionist leaders are male.

down.. The argument goes that if we cap

continued overleaf

continued on page 3

EU: the enemy of progress by Anita Halpin

The social progress won and rights gained since 1945 and which we are fighting to save

Diktats from EU bosses in Brussels

can only be maintained when we win stronger

democratic rights; diktats that this

with the independent powers (never mind the

erode ever more of our hard-won

ConDem government applies with

gusto when it suits their ideological

independent trade unions and a government will) to deliver a budget that will both protect

purpose and political programme –

and advance the interests of working people.

electoral mandate.

the shackles forged by the EU.

for which they have absolutely no

Take just two decisions made last year by

The alternative economic strategy of The People’s Charter – to redistribute power and

unelected EU bureaucrats.First, they

wealth – is far from a red-blooded Communist

introduced a new, harsh limit on the public

planned economy, yet not one of its modest

sector 'structural' deficit of just 0.5 per cent of

proposals can work while Brussels controls

GDP under the Treaty on Stability,

the purse strings. Indeed, most of our own

Coordination and Governance. Now, I’m not

unions’ policies are outlawed in the EU.

very fluent in Eurobabble but there aren’t too many stable governments in Europe (never mind the rest of the world).

In the growing fightback against austerity there will be victories but ultimately, you cannot oppose austerity budgeting and

And then last December, they outlined

campaign to rebuild our economy while

mandatory reforms that will weaken our

remaining supportive of the EU and its

contractual rights.

institutions.

Two measures that day in and day out

Ouch, i

Yet this cannot be achieved until we loosen

Arguing to leave the European Union is

by Liz Payne Anger at the gender impact of

austerity measures runs throughout the agenda at conference this week.

translate into all the evils of austerity:

neither reactionary nationalism nor a betrayal

massive job losses; poverty wages; near

of fellow workers across Europe but a first

For almost three years now, working class

Victorian workplaces; declining services in

step in rejecting the xenophobic and right-

women in Britain have had to bear the major

transport, energy, communications, health,

wing agenda espoused by the Tory big

burden of the cuts regime of the unelected

education and local government. Savage cuts

business party, promoted by the mass media

ConDem Coalition.

are neither necessary nor inevitable.

and exploited by UKIP.

It is clear why many trades unionists believe

The left argued from the start that EU

Enough is enough, now it’s time for things to change. The June 2010 Emergency Budget made

that some social gains made through being in

membership would undermine our democracy.

the EU were significant. But many of the

Those who today refuse to acknowledge its

savings of billions, grabbing 75 per cent of

progressive gains in terms of equality and

undemocratic and anti-worker character are

them from women’s pockets. And that was just

human rights, now targeted by Cameron,

directly playing into the hands of UKIP and

the start! Every austerity measure since has

came not through the EU but from the

the BNP by blocking any progressive

hit women hardest and, with less than a

European Court of Human Rights which

alternative.

quarter of the planned cuts implemented so

European Convention on Human Rights

Anita Halpin is the Communist Party’s

hands!

following the victory over fascism.

trade union coordinator

far, we have a serious job of challenge on our

predates the EU and is based on the

continued from page 1 So why are the European Union

More than 320,000 women’s jobs will be lost

by the American banking moguls who are

Britain has become the US cuckoo in the

deeply embedded in the British economy.

European Union nest.

commissioners recommending a cap on

Their avaricious greed dragged Britain into

bankers’ bonuses? It might seem a popularist

the mess forcing the bailout of our banks

window dressing. It is vital that we challenge

move to fend oﬀ further criticism but more

and Britain in turn infected the European

not only this bonus culture but the

likely, as Paul Gardiner, formerly of

economy. This also explains why the US is

economic system that gives rise to this

Goldman Sachs believes it’s because the EU

so keen on Britain staying in the EU. It gives

parasitic practice. This is why the National

just wanted to give Cameron a kick in the

the US access to the European economy

Assembly of Women is supporting the call

teeth. The ﬁnancial crisis was precipitated

which would otherwise be denied to them.

for a People’s Assembly Against Austerity in

The EU proposal on capping is mere

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and amenities and increasing vulnerability to exploitation, abuse and violence. None of this needs to happen and women in their trade unions must lead the fight-back against public and private employers,

and, most importantly, our victories which will help inspire other women to become involved

life. But the fightback is not solely a matter of

in the movement.

understanding that we need to change the very

freezes will hit women workers hardest,

let me tell you more about becoming a daily

basis on which women live and how this might

reader of this paper. How to buy it, how to order it for meetings that you attend and how

The Charter for Women, supported by trade unions, trades councils and women’s

you can use it in education classes. The Morning Star is co-operatively owned by its readers through the Peoples Press

this might look like for women – in the wider

Printing Society (PPPS). Eight national trade

society, at work and in the labour movement.

unions have taken out full share holding in

It shows how campaigns built upon the

the PPPS and are represented on our

demands of women - for equality,

management committee .

independence, justice, representation, work,

thousands more from the private sector. Wage

Visit me today on the Morning Star stall and

come about.

organisations across the country, sets out what

from the public sector alone and tens of

that wants to publicise our issues, campaigns

asserting women’s rights to jobs and a decent short-term economic challenge. We must win

it hurts

So I would urge you to make sure that the voices of women are heard in the only paper

It is important that women become involved

fair pay, education and health - can make

in the ownership of the paper so that they can

broad, deep and irreversible changes to the

help shape the paper for the future. If you

lives of working women in Britain. But we should be under no illusion; capitalism depends on the exploitation of

belong to Unite you should have seen the recent shares drive that they are endorsing. Again come along and see me at

concentrated as they are in low paid work.

working women and on women’s unpaid

the stall so that I can talk to you some more

Women, statistically twice as likely as men to

labour. It also depends on ensuring that

about participating and contributing more by

depend on benefits, will suffer most from

working people can never unite to challenge

becoming a shareholder.

government raids on welfare budgets.

it. For capitalism, maintaining the division

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Many benefits under the axe relate to women’s lives directly – support during pregnancy, child care assistance via tax

We have a long, hard battle to fight but, if we

credits, child benefit. Single women too are to

fight it together, basing our struggle on the

be the majority of those who lose housing

clearly articulated demands of the Charter for

benefit.

Women, we will be able to win vital public

Decimated public services and unaffordable privatised ‘replacements’ are largely those on

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support, defeat anti-women austerity measures, get rid of the government of the

which women rely. Caring services and public

super-rich and begin to work towards a

transport being only two examples. The

genuinely fair, just, democratic and socialist

cumulative effect will be the isolation,

future.

impoverishment and disenfranchisement of women on a scale not seen in decades,

Liz Payne is the Communist Party national

denying access to education, jobs, healthcare

women’s organiser and Party vice chair The International Women’s Day issue of 21centurymanifesto magazine includes

London on Saturday 22 June. Sisters (and brothers) will not stand by and

and then work together in our organisations,

Akexandra Kollantai on the origins of

unions and communities together to

International Women’s Day; Camila

allow rampant privatisation to continue,

transform this into a political ﬁght for power

Vallejo on the Pinochet dictatorship,

unemployment to become structurally

that can bring about real change for the

Greek communist leader Aleka Papariga

embedded in our economy, watch the

millions of working class people, their

on the capitalist crisis and Die Linke

destruction of the NHS and welfare state

families and future generations.

leader Sahra Wagenknecht on the euro crisis plus Frances O’Grady on education

and do nothing. It is vital that, together, we develop an alternative economic strategy

Anita Wright is secretary of the

privatisation.

based on growth, social justice and equality

National Assembly of Women

http://tinyurl.com/bm75jmh

Fight for trade union freedom

But this time we have to be ready and prepared to resist. We have to ensure we join up the dots of the daily dose of anti trade union, anti-working class agenda so that workers can see the big picture and gain the conﬁdence to ﬁght back. That is why the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom is so

by Carolyn Jones In the closing decades of the 20th

national to enterprise level. The result was devastating and debilitating

timely and so important. The Campaign is a merger between the United Campaign for

century workers in Britain and their

and continues to impact on how unions

the Repeal of Anti-Trade Union Laws and the

operate. The numbers of people covered by

Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade

onslaught against their employment

a collective agreement negotiated by a trade

Unions - two organisations with proud and

union has fallen from 82% in 1980 to around

progressive histories.

trade unions faced a recurring

rights and trade union freedoms.

The reasons were clear. Weaker unions

32% today. A major consequence of that

The merger creates "one voice" and oﬀers a

drop has been an ever widening increase in

forum where we can truly and proudly

meant bigger proﬁts. Barabara Castle and

inequality. Hardly surprising. Even today,

declare we are all in this together. The role

Edward Heath (right) failed. Thatcher was

workers who have their terms and conditions

of the Campaign will not simply be to expose

more successful. She wanted to reduce the

negotiated via a trade union receive around

the class based nature of the problem. That’s

welfare state, privatise public services (rail,

16% more than unrepresented workers.

only part of the job. More importantly will be

post, gas, electricity, telecoms) and replace

Remove that inﬂuence and inequality grows.

Britain’s manufacturing base with an

Today we are suﬀering from Thatcher mark

its work in creating and popularising collective resistance, oﬀering those in struggle a voice

unregulated ﬁnancial sector. To achieve her

two. Just like the 1980’s it’s hard to keep up

and support mechanisms and continually

aims she needed to disarm the only force

with the anti trade union policies, proposals

highlighting the fact that another world is

able to resist such draconian measures - the

and pig-headed prejudices spouted on a daily

possible.

trade union movement.

basis by the arrogant posh boys currently in

We hope activists will join the Campaign

power. Limits on employment rights, attacks

and work with us to win free unions, which

In a systematic, step by step programme of legislative changes Thatcher shackled the

on trade union freedoms, restrictions on

can play their role in battling for fair rights and

unions with ballots, injunctions, internal

access to justice, fundamental weakening of

decent pay.

elections, restrictions on strike action,

enforcement mechanisms and regressive

banning of solidarity action and the

steps in equality legislation - all expose the

Carolyn Jones is director of the

decentralisation of collective bargaining from

class nature of the Coalition’s programme.

Institute of Employment Rights

A winning strategy to defeat the by Maggie Ryan

Policies that working people can get behind

cope with under this current government. To

and support would be a good start, given the

achieve this, it was recognised that we need

relentless attacks on some of the poorest in our

more Unite members in the Labour Party to

going on at the moment you would be

society and the decimation of our public

have a chance of turning this situation around.

Union was the enemy.

worse to come this year and beyond.

With all the talk on how to win power

back from the Con Dem government forgiven for thinking that Unite the

Clearly, Len McCluskey’s recent article in the

services up and down the country with still Unite members at our policy conference last

So, at least one union is developing a political strategy that will enable its members to do just that, from branch level, all members are being

year were very clear about our relationship with

encouraged to join the Labour Party and

New Statesman magazine rankled with some

the Labour Party. They voted in favour for the

participate in their local constituency parties

senior figures in the Labour Party, prompting a

link to be maintained, but that all future

swipe at the Union for having the audacity to

donations to the party should be scrutinised as

The message is the same for our Area activists committees, Regional industrial sector

put forward an alternative view that would

to how the money is being used, especially

committees and for the equalities sector, our

appeal to ordinary working people and

monies to constituency Labour parties (CLPs).

Women members, BAEM members, Disabled

persuade them to come out and vote for Labour

What’s the point of funding CLPs if they

members, LGB&T members, Young members

at the next election. Labour has lost some 4000

disregard unions’ policies and just want to

and our Retired members section. The support

members between 1997 and 2010, so, radical

promote careerists to become MPs who, in the

is there for activists at all levels of Unite to

ideas are needed if we are to win people back

main, have absolutely no idea of the real

participate and the resources are in place

to the party and achieve this aim.

pressures hard pressed families are trying to

throughout the 10 regions of the Union to assist

A chance to change our future

involve the same individuals.

by Bill Greenshields

alternative is tagged as an unrealistic

The People’s Assembly Against

extremist. Every day the ruling class puppets

black and white, British citizens and migrants, those in work and the unemployed. Most crucially they need trade union struggles to be separate from community and grass roots struggles, even when they so often Anyone who argues for a coherent

same old stuff, designed to confuse, obfuscate,

the first instance Unite – the Coalition

submission.

number of trade unions – including in

of Resistance, the People’s Charter

and many others to mount a serious

1:30-4:30pm Friends Meeting House 173 Euston Road London NW1 2BJ

ConDems us all and make this work.

hope that trade unions, anti-cuts groups,

deprived of a political voice. So it’s a ray of radical campaigns, community organisations

austerity will not go unchallenged. We will

and political parties are coming together for a

resist the theft and privatisation of our

People’s Assembly on Saturday 22 June this

national resources and public services; the

year.

continuing undermining of trade unions rights and freedom and the attacks on the most

The Assembly is a reassertion of the strength of the working class and its need for

vulnerable all of which rip the heart out of

a political voice. It can help build a

local communities.

movement that might just turn the tide.

The government and its henchmen in the

Will those taking part agree on every dot

mass media perpetuate the myth that

and comma of the way forward, in terms of

understanding the economy is far too

objectives, tactics and strategy?

complicated for the ‘ordinary’ woman and man so we should leave it the ‘experts’ – the

No – and that’s a good thing because if they did the assembly would not reflect the

bankers, economists, media pundits and

complexity and variety of views within the

politicians – whose system created this damn-

working class.

awful mess in the first place. We need to be brainwashed to believe that,

It’s vital that the assembly be representative of all sections of the British people and does

even though we are suffering, cuts and

not become the property of any political party or group.

The General Executive council with our

unemployment are inevitable and necessary and anyway (because we can’t understand)

committed to ensuring that Labour can win for

there’s nothing we can do about it.

support for granted and start to form policies

assault in Britain as in the rest of Europe and

will be found wanting in every respect.

general secretary Len McCluskey is wholly working people, but they must not take our

Working people are under a full-frontal beyond. In this country particularly we are

Attacks on working people in the name of

Launch rally Saturday 23 March

threaten, divide, ridicule and browbeat us into

challenge to the bankers' agenda and subject it to public scrutiny, when it

CAMPAIGN FOR TRADE UNION FREEDOM

in Parliament and the media pump out the

Austerity is a response to calls from a

The tiny class of super-rich bankers and corporate monopolies running this country

that are relevant for ordinary people that they

also need our response to the austerity regime

will then come out and vote for.

to be fragmented and dislocated. Thus the attacks on pay, pensions, rights at

There will be, must be, real debate and argument – but in a process designed to unite and ignite the labour movement and deliver an outcome. It should lead to stronger and more united trade unions determined to take on the battle in a strategic, co-ordinated way and to put

Maggie Ryan is the West Midlands Women’s

work, employment, benefits and public

themselves at the heart of communities

Representative on Unite’s General Executive

services are portrayed as separate industrial

seeking to defend themselves against the cuts.

Council and writes here in a personal capacity

battles which are fought individually and not

Communist PartyOpen Letter on the

as what they are: various strands of an

alternative that the People’s Charter for

integrated class attack on everything Britain’s

Change demands – a people’s Britain, not a

workers have won over the past 70 years.

bankers’ Britain.

strategy to solve the crisis of political representation in the labour movement, go to

http://tinyurl.com/bwl3h8b

And it should help promote the radical

So they sow artificial divisions. Public and private-sector workers. Industrial and service

Bill Greenshields chairs the Communist Party

workers. Men and women, north and south,

and is the People’s Charter trade union officer

WANTED: A PEOPLE’S BUDGET by Robert Griffiths In cities, towns and villages across

Britain, the cuts are beginning to bite. For the past two years, the austerity programme devised by New Labour mainly affected capital projects.The construction industry and its

contractors were hit, but most public

services remained in place.

Now people are seeing their local libraries, day care centres, leisure facilities and other council services slashed or closed altogether. As well as rising council tax bills and service charges, people are being mercilessly ripped off by the greedy tax-dodgers who own our gas, electricity and water utilities. For example, British Gas have increased prices by 6 per cent, even though annual profits

most benefits will go down in real terms for at

2015, the Con-Dem coalition has added

are up 11 per cent. Most of their 17m

least two years.

£446bn of cuts and extended the punishment to

customers see no real increase in their incomes and many are struggling to pay their rocketing bills. It's a similar story in the water industry, where prices and profits are soaring – except at Welsh Water, a not-for-profit company. The hardest hit are low-paid and public sector workers, the unemployed, single parents, carers

The 'bedroom tax' will hit tenants on housing benefit in all social housing. The rolling replacement of the Disability

2018. Prime Minister Cameron has recently repeated the bogus rationale for austerity,

Living Allowance by the Personal

namely, that Britain's public spending deficit

Independence Payment is intended to slash

must be narrowed towards zero.

financial support by 20 per cent over the next four years – for those not driven off it altogether. The staged introduction of Universal Credit

This has never been the government's real agenda. At the behest of the City of London, which pressed for the formation of the

and pensioners who rely on state benefits or the

this year, in place of most means-tested benefits

unelected Con-Dem coalition in the first place,

state pension for their subsistence. The

for the unemployed, low-paid and parents will

it is to dismantle and privatise Britain's public

make it simpler for governments to reduce

sector, including the welfare state.

majority in most of these categories are women. The government's welfare state 'reforms' target many of the same people, together with the disabled. The benefit cap on working-age households will be rolled out from next month and most will also suffer a cut in housing benefit. In fact,

public assistance at a stroke. Yet we are only in the second year of what the Tories now intend to be a 7-year austerity regime. Where the last New Labour government planned to chop public spending by £123bn to

Almost all the social gains made since 1945 are to be withdrawn. Monopoly profits can then be made across the health and education sectors, especially in England. Taxes on the rich and corporate profits can be reduced still further. Wage levels can be

driven down and trade unionism weakened. That is why the labour movement must fight

Where would the money come from?

H Slap a windfall tax on energy, retail and

Britain is still the world's sixth biggest

banking monopoly profits.

this austerity and privatisation drive through

economy. The wealthiest one-tenth of the

H Impose a financial transaction tax on the

mass action, including selective, rolling and

population own at £4,500bn in personal

City bankers and speculators.

generalised strikes. Together with the left, it

wealth, 44 per cent of the total (whereas half

H Divert Bank of England funds from QE and

has to wage the battle of ideas in our local

the population own just 10 per cent). That's

the impotent Funding for Lending Scheme into

communities, to expose the real Tory agenda. But we must also show that there is an alternative.

without taking into account at least £3,000bn

infrastructure bonds issued by local, devolved

in hidden assets.

and other public authorities.

Since 2011, the Bank of England has

For instance, a People's Budget would

pumped an extra £175bn into the banks and

stimulate economic growth and reduce the

financial institutions in 'quantitative easing'

H End the tax haven status of all territories

under British jurisdiction. Many of these policies arise from the

H Invest in health, education, housing, public

(QE). Most of this has been used to improve

positions taken in the People's Charter,

corporate bank balances and speculate in the

endorsed by the TUC, the Scottish TUC, Wales

transport and the environment.

financial markets.

TUC and many individual unions.

hand over public services to big business.

H Boost state pension and benefit levels in

H Introduce a 2 per cent Wealth Tax on the super-rich, raising £90 billion a year – almost

labour and people's movement to go on the

real terms, restoring the link with the retail

twice this year's public spending cuts.

offensive for policies to benefit the millions,

growing inequality gap with measures to:

H Halt all PFI and privatisation schemes to

price index.

H Increase the national minimum wage in real

terms and retain the Agricultural Wages Board. H Extend statutory equal pay audits into the

A People's Budget would therefore:

H Reverse the recent cuts in corporation tax

The People's Assembly Against Austerity on June 22 provides a great opportunity for the

not the millionaires.

for the biggest companies.

H Restore the top rate of income tax (at 60 per

Robert Griffiths is the Communist Party

cent not 50).

general secretary

private sector.

H Freeze gas, electricity and water prices and

prepare to take all the utilities back into public ownership.

H Nationalise the banks and direct funds into

manufacturing, small businesses, cooperatives and housing.

H Take the railways back into public ownership and subsidise fares and investment not shareholder dividends.

H Launch a massive public sector

housebuilding programme.

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