My second venture to Plymouth.
More door knocking and speaking with Plymouth’s working class in the lead up to the general election. We had a few people say they will vote tusc: the party we support. we also heard a few say reform: A bosses party dressed up to entice the workers.
As revolutionaries, we must educate our brothers and sisters, read the parties’ manifestos, Labour, Tory, and Reform. In doing so, we can show people the true nature and present a socialist alternative.
Later in the evening, the Plymouth branch held an open meeting in the industrial corner of the city, LeadWorks. A full room listened to an older lady and long-time member who read from papers to the Plymouth branch. She shared concise facts about our NHS spanning from its birth to the caucus and how it came to be such. The atmosphere shifted from informal to electric as members raised their hands, eager to speak next. Each one slammed the NHS harder about how the capitalists have sold it bit by bit from under our feet or how the NHS has failed us. Emotions were rightfully high, almost as if mourning a loss and a deep betrayal.
Today I woke up at another comrades house who’d kindly put me up in their spare room, we quickly made our way to a picket line outside Plymouth’s hospital. NHS worker about a hundred stood clutching signs along a busy T-junction. Horns beeping and chants echoed, the energy was high and outlook promising.
I was also able to visit the g4s strike outside the job centre. A slightly different energy from that of the NHS care workers, g4s is owned by an american company and it is doubtful that they will yield.
We are currently seeing the beginnings of class consciousness awakening from its slumber and now we must push with determination, be active members as funding isn’t enough, We have to be revolutionaries!
Solidarity,
squid.