Sinister Character of Queen’s Speech: Fight for Programme of Working Class!

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Sinister Character of Queen’s Speech: Fight for Programme of Working Class!

The government’s priority, as one can grasp from the Queen’s Speech, delivered at the Palace of Westminster on December 3, was to ensure that the rich get paid in this period of global economic downturn.

One can also grasp from the presentation of the government’s next legislative programme by the monarch the sinister nature of this programme.

The executive’s programme is to ensure the "strength of the financial sector" first and foremost. Legislation will "improve the resilience" of this sector. That is, the hand of monopoly right will be strengthened.

"Welfare reform" will force the vulnerable into slave labour, and those with disabilities will be further persecuted.

Criminalisation will be stepped up and immigrants and asylum seekers especially targeted.

The justice system will be further changed to remove the rights of the accused, won through struggle over centuries.

The government continues to claim that this society is fair, and that the rights of all are just a case of ensuring "transparency". This entails that the people must step up the struggle for the rights of all.

The conception that health care is a right will be further attacked through the fraud of an NHS Constitution, giving the green light to further privatisation and cutbacks in public health spending.

The government is pressing ahead with "investment with reform" in education, to meet the needs of the monopolies.

The government is abusing the conception of "constitutional renewal" to emphasise the "responsibilities" of citizens to the state, while strengthening parliament to keep the people further away from decision-making, under the rubric of the "Governance of Britain".

The monopolies are to be let off the hook over the destruction of the environment, and the burden placed on the people’s shoulders.

The rights of the nations of Scotland and Wales will continue to be denied, while the government will do all it can to interfere in the north of Ireland.

The government will host the next G20 Summit, to further strengthen the domination of the monopolies internationally. It will pledge its allegiance to the US-led aggressive NATO alliance at its 60th anniversary summit.

The government will further step up its interference in the Middle East, including targeting Iran, moving more troops for the occupation of Afghanistan and creating insecurity and instability in Pakistan.

Other measures will be laid before Parliament, the whole demanding the response of the working class and people to bring about democratic renewal, the election of worker politicians, and the mobilisation of the whole polity to establish an anti-war government.

Fight for the Programme of the Working Class!