United Kingdom: with new prime minister, no queen

Writes: Julio Santana – LIS, United Kingdom

The death of Elizabeth II should not cover up the serious social problems suffered by working people, that will become more acute with the assumption of Liz Truss. A lot less, curb ongoing claims.

To the 96 years, of which 70 they were monarch, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. The main symbol of the declining British empire has died, colonialist, invader of the Malvinas Islands and oppressor of the peoples. The banner of exploitative capitalism and the British parliamentary monarchical regime, feudal, repressor and enemy of the working class. The new monarch ofCommonwealth will be the prince of wales, son of Isabel II who will occupy the throne as Carlos III, another parasitic pirate. In the next few days we will publish a note with the reactionary history of the Elizabethan reign.

Millionaire protocol before a working town that is impoverished

The news about the assumption of Liz Truss was completely overshadowed by the death of the Queen. As of death, under the name of Operation London Bridge, a detailed protocol plan worthy of the Middle Ages has begun to develop. Between the funeral, tributes and institutional replacement, the activities will last for eleven days. Amid inflation above 10%, Unpayable fees and growing pain, the implementation of the protocol will cost millions of pounds sterling which will come out of the pockets of the impoverished people. Death should not divert attention from existing serious social problems or defuse ongoing struggles. Thus, it is necessary to follow the pulse of what is happening in a United Kingdom, increasingly in crisis and convulsed.

Just an undemocratic change of tenant

After more than two months of by-elections within the Conservative Party, Liz Truss has been proclaimed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She was chosen for less than 200.000 party members, 97% white and 55% older than 60 years. A brutal anti-democratic aberration of the parliamentary monarchical regime. As we pointed out in our previous article“A summer with discontent that brings about changes”, nothing will change for working people, although the10 de Downing Street change tenant.

Less taxes…for top earners

The prime minister has already stated that her plan will include tax cuts that, as usual, will benefit the highest earners. “When he was shown calculations that his planned reversal of the recent increase in national insurance would benefit people with higher incomes by around £ 1,800 year, and to people with lower incomes by around £ 7, they asked him if this was fair, truss said: Yes, it's fair."

Measures against the poor people

It is estimated a 13 % inflation at the end of the year. The price of electricity and gas is an unpayable robbery that pushes millions of people into misery. Truss also intends to eliminate rights won by the working class. As revealed in a recording, he thinks that: “English workers are bums who need bribes(for social assistance to the most needy), not like in China where they really work…”

want to emulate the"Iron lady"

Here everyone thinks that Liz Truss wants to be a new Margaret Thatcher. In July the government passed the law to allow private employment agencies to provide staff to replace striking workers., establishing scabs by law. There is also bad news for the environment: oil exploration in the North Sea and the use offracking to get more fossil fuel. The bourgeois measures will not solve the underlying problems that affect the majority of the workers and the people, Conversely, will bring more suffering, That is why we have to deepen the struggles to face them.. Those who accompany Truss are as right-wing as she is.

a team of terror

The new Chancellor (finance Minister) es Kwasi Kwarteng. Opposes reducing VAT, to aid to buy a home and to any state intervention. quite possibly, don't oppose subsidizing big business with everyone's money. In your opinion there is"an inflated state, high taxes and excessive regulation.As he, like truss, strongly opposed the increase in income tax on energy companies. (Evening Standard 08/09/ 2022).

On the other hand, Theresse Coffey is the new Minister of Health. He has already marked a path against theNHS. After 12 year rule, the conservatives have destroyed the public health service seeking to privatize it. They use the old practice of not filling vacancies, for patients to wait for months before being seen. Thus they generate an atmosphere of discomfort on which they rely to privatize. For this reason he has stated that"The nanny state should not continue". (The Telegraph (7/09/2022)

Wait for the next elections?

Workers have staged huge strikes against rising cost of living and defending jobs. They were great for the number of strikers, for the decision to fight and for the support won among the population. The new actions are already being programmed. Nevertheless, there is a problem: actions are not coordinated. This is no accident, explained by trade union relations with the Labor Party, whose organization is not interested in fighting, but the next elections. Yes, an electoral exit is expected, conservatives will do giant damage. Social needs can't wait until voting, question that will not solve anything. The path is marked by the struggles in the United Kingdom and those thatgrow in europe.

down with the monarchy!

Before the death of “Your Majesty”, “Supreme Governor of the Church of England”, there is nothing to regret. It is necessary to reaffirm the need to end the feudal and obscurantist monarchy, as with the bourgeois institutionality that manages it. Down with the parliamentary monarchical regime!! that the members of theWindsor House go to work and hand over their accumulated wealth at the expense of popular effort. with or without crown, the fundamental tasks are to sustain and deepen the struggle and union and political organization.

Mobilization, general strike and new left alternative

The fundamental thing is to surround the striking unions with solidarity, coordinate actions, boost worker membership, call for a great mobilization of the unions in struggle and all the people and demand that the unions call a general strike so that the crisis is paid for by the capitalists. It is necessary to confront the Conservative Party in power, without placing any trust in the Labor Party, who is an active part of the regimen. The old bosses' parties were, they are and will be the support of capitalism and the monarchy. The regrouping of the revolutionary socialists could give impetus to the goal of setting up a new anti-capitalist and socialist left option. To raise the strategy of a workers' government with a regime of workers' democracy.