by Our News Desk

THE huge response to the People’s Assembly demonstrations in London and Glasgow last month showed anger and a willingness to fight Tory policies, Bill Greenshields has told the Communist Party political committee.

He said to the committee on Wednesday evening that there needed to be a similar response to Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget next week and to TUC and People’s Assembly plans to mobilise against the Tories’ October conference in Manchester.

“What needs to be rebuilt is a solid working-class political consciousness to match and surpass that of Britain’s ruling class centred on the City of London,” Mr Greenshields declared.

While “the banks, big business and their hired politicians” had clear objectives to cut and privatise public services, reduce taxes on high incomes and wealth, destroy effective trade unionism and push up the rate of profit, the majority opposed to most Tory policies “have no clear class objectives.”

Mr Greenshields, the Communist Party’s political education organiser, identified as strategic objectives a popular anti-monopoly alliance of forces based on the trade unions and the labour movement’s own mass party capable of winning elections on a popular left-wing programme.

“Only by extending the influence and activities of local trade councils and People’s Assembly groups” can workers create the conditions in which an alternative economic and political strategy can develop, he said.

The Communist Party has called on socialists, democrats and progressives to support demonstrations at Ukraine’s London embassy and Edinburgh consulate at 11am on July 25, to protest against the Kiev regime’s crackdown on left-wing organisations and symbols.