What this blog is all about

The following letter has been sent to the Morning Star newspaper:

The hi-jacking of the democratic process by the Cameron-Clegg axis should concentrate our minds and focus attention on the immediate tasks for the movement, which are in the extra-Parliamentary arena.

The political pattern is much clearer now that, within days of the election, Clegg has abandoned key pledges, such as the cancellation of Trident and electoral reform (the proposed AV voting system, as demonstrated by the Euro-elections, is not true PR, and far from being "a step in the right direction", in fact transfers power from constituency voters to the party oligarchies).

Obviously, anyone who voted for the Lib-Dems under the mistaken impression that they were a viable alternative to the Tories needs to hold the successful candidates to account for these and any other derelictions. And hopefully all will have learned an important political lesson (which, to be fair, the Star was pointing out before the election).

It is clear that the immediate battleground will be the swingeing cuts in the public services that the Lib-Con axis is proposing, but the movement must be united in its opposition . However, it is not sufficient to react to these cuts when they are about to be implemented; we must be proactive. The experience of Greece, where hundreds of thousands on the streets did not prevent their so-called socialist government from dancing to the tune of the Brussels jig (and our own experience when two million on the streets of London were not sufficient to prevent Blair’s war on Iraq), proves that demonstrations are not enough.

Deluge Nick Clegg’s inbox (cleggn@parliament.uk) with messages of protest, and also all other Lib-Con MPs. Also, if the Morning Star is correct in estimating that there are more left Labour MPs in this Parliament, buttress their convictions with messages of support (get email details for all MPs from http://bit.ly/dbBspl). Queue up outside MP surgeries en masse. And let the media know what you are doing.

But that is just the start. What we need to do is to make it impossible for this illegitimate, barely legal government to govern, by conduction a war of attrition against them. It is not appropriate to go into too much detail in the columns of a daily paper, but suffice it to say that our glorious history of struggle provides us with plenty of examples of extra-legal actions to draw upon.

What we are seeking to do is to reclaim the democracy our ancestors fought (and in some cases died) for.