March organised by the TUC, October 2012 This year's TUC Congress is taking place at the Bournemouth International Centre from September 8 to September 11. Delegates to Congress will discuss the report to the Congress from the General Council on the work of the TUC over the past 12 months and debate motions submitted by the constituent unions on policy of the TUC over the next 12 months and beyond, as well as electing the General Council for the coming year from the nominations submitted by the constituent trade unions.

Debates on the motions have been grouped this year into sections which refer to the fight for jobs and a new economy, pay, welfare, and rights at work and strengthening the trade unions. At the same time, delegates will receive the report to the Congress from the General Council which reflects on the 200,000 For A Future that Works national demonstration organised last October by the TUC, as well as a report on the discussions on the practicalities of a general strike to take forward the fight for the alternative. In this context the General Council Report says that there is agreement among the trade unions that any relevant industrial action “needed to be part of a bigger campaign including ‘mass community action’ against austerity” and in the report the General Council also agreed that the “TUC should bring together unions that were engaged in national disputes, or disputes of national significance, and/or where there was a desire for a practical discussion on co-ordinated action”.

March organised by the TUC, October 2012 The urgent issue is facing the workers' movement and Workers' Opposition is to fight for arrangements that recognise the rights of workers. There is an historic opportunity to focus on discussing this question, in the light of the fight that has been taken up to fight for the alternative and to plant the seeds of the Workers' Opposition within the workers' movement on this basis.

This issue facing the delegates comes as the battles to safeguard the future of the NHS are raging, especially the mass community actions at Lewisham to save Lewisham Hospital, Mid Staffordshire Hospital, and elsewhere. Also, workers in every sector of the economy are also continuing to fight to defend their jobs and working conditions, pensions, public services as well as oppose the attacks on welfare benefits of all sections of the people and social housing. In these battles such as the campaign to save Lewisham Hospital the people are winning some important battles.

The workers' movement has an historic opportunity to occupy the space for change, but it is in danger of being squandered if the agenda is restricted to questions posed simply in terms of “fair pay”, without addressing in this difficult situation what
March organised by the TUC, October 2012 is going to turn the situation around in favour of the working class and people. The way to occupy this space for change – posed in terms of the fight for the alternative – is to base the movement on the workers' own thinking and independent programme, to rely on the strength of the working class in terms of its numbers and pro-social outlook. It has to do this, not by surrendering the initiative, but on the basis of taking up the fight for the rights of all, including the future of the health service for example. In this, in its own way, Lewisham is an example, because it has remained true to itself and its aims, and must continue to do so.

For the delegates the issue that is paramount is that it is only the working class movement that can take the lead in the struggles of the people against this anti-social direction for society on the NHS and public services and all aspects the government austerity programme. The issue is to fight for the alternative as these issues emerge in the struggles of the working class and people whilst fighting for their collective interests.

There is the urgent need to constitute the Workers’ Opposition in society and in Parliament with worker politicians – an opposition with its own independent programme for a pro-social and an anti-war government. Such a programme of the Workers’ Opposition is also to win the battle for democracy, for democratic renewal of the political process as the alternative to the archaic system of “
March organised by the TUC, October 2012 representative” – that is, unrepresentative – democracy, with its cartel party system in the service of the monopolies. The vital question facing the working class movement is that it is the only independent political force that can unite all sections of the people around itself to fight for their interests and to fight for the alternative. This is the question confronting us to how to fight for this programme and work out the tactics to build the Workers’ Opposition.

The issue for the workers' movement is to put a block on the Coalition government's anti-social offensive and its fraudulent austerity agenda. The task facing the TUC Congress at this time is to seriously take stock of the situation. In doing so, the Congress and delegates would realise that the way forward relies on strengthening the organised workers' movement's own organisation and consciousness, to focus its energies on blocking the arrangements that the Coalition is trying to impose to crush the movement, to wreck public services, to take the whole economy further down its anti-social, pro-austerity path – and instead to fight for those arrangements which recognise workers' rights, which recognise the rights of all, and go for a pro-social direction to the economy and to society as a whole, based on the public good, and the working class and people being the decision-makers in society.

Step Up the Fight for the Alternative!
Plant the Seeds of the Workers’ Opposition!
Take a Stand against the Anti-Social Wrecking and for a Pro-Social Economy!
Who Decides? We Decide!

Lobby of Downing Street, August 28th The actions are continuing aimed to stay the hand of the warmongers, prevent further aggression, and develop the movement towards bringing into power an anti-war government.

It is clear from David Cameron’s debacle when defeated in the House of Commons, that the people’s opposition to armed aggression against sovereign countries had been consolidated as the popular will, and made a difference both to the motion presented by the government and to the outcome of the debate. Nevertheless it is still the case that geopolitical considerations of the NATO powers remain the government’s primary consideration, albeit that Cameron had to concede that he would not use prerogative powers on this occasion to authorise the use of force against Syria. There are also divisions among the ruling elite which are driving Cameron and his cohorts into a fury. The important lessons is how necessary it is to continue to take a stand against the warmongering and the use of force in order to “punish” regimes which the state falsely decrees are “guilty” of all kinds of crimes. This is a block to the way the agenda of “regime change by force” has been running out of control.

Newcastle Protest, August 29th The necessity is for the people’s movement against war and in defence of countries’ and nations’ sovereignty to continue to rely on its own strength. It must, as it has been doing, continue to build at the base in conjunction with taking national actions.

The perspective of the anti-war movement is that Britain needs to get rid of the warmongers, and needs an Anti-War Government in their stead. This is not a government of condescending saviours, but one where the justice- and peace-loving people are the decision-makers.

WWIE salutes everyone who contributes in making up the anti-war movement for their stand and their actions to demand Hands Off Syria! The struggle against the warmongers and their ideologues and apologists continues and must be stepped up, as well as the struggle to eliminate the root causes of the doctrine of “might makes right”.

No to the Use of Force to Attempt to Sort Out International Affairs!
Resolute Defence of the Sovereignty of Peoples, Nations and Countries!
Britain Must End All its Dreams of Being the World’s Policeman!
War Criminals Must Be Punished!

International Peace March,
60th anniversary of victory of Korean
people in Fatherland Liberation War September 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. On this occasion, RCPB(ML) conveyed to Comrade Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of the Korean People, and to the Worker's Party of Korea, its warmest revolutionary greetings and joined with them in celebrating this joyous anniversary.

The DPRK came into existence as a people-centred socialist society which affirmed the interests and rights of human beings and which would defend its national sovereignty no matter what the pressure. Under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and now under the respected leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un,
Sculpture in newly-inaugurated Fatherland
Liberation War Martyrs' Cemetery such principled stands have made and continue to make the DPRK an impregnable fortress against imperialist provocation and hostility, a factor for peace in the region, and an inspiration to the struggling peoples of the world.

The founding of the DPRK in 1948 was an event of great historical significance for the Korean people and the peoples of the world. For 65 years since its founding, the DPRK has had a difficult road to travel. But at every stage this journey has been marked by great victories. Throughout, the DPRK has contributed to humanity’s striving for peace and progress. The existence of the DPRK today, as a modern industrialised state, in which the people contribute to the building of a thriving socialist nation, gives the lie to all the baseless and hysterical propaganda levelled against it by US imperialism, aided and abetted by the British government and the whole pf the monopoly-controlled media.

Kaesong City International Solidarity Meeting Following the victory over the Japanese imperialists, the DPRK came into being as the realisation of the people's aim to never again be a subject people and to create a society which affirmed the needs and rights of human beings. The July 27, 1953, victory over the US demonstrated both the national and anti-imperialist sentiments of the Korean people, their heroic self-sacrificing spirit, and the support enjoyed by the DPRK among the world’s progressive forces as a major contributor to world peace.

The 65th anniversary of the Korean people’s victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was marked in the DPRK with great celebration, as well as with great solemnity. A delegation of RCPB(ML) was proud to visit the DPRK on this occasion at the invitation of the Workers’ Party of Korea. At a meeting and social on September 8, hosted by the Friends of Korea in this country, members of the delegation will recount their experiences, and WWIE will report on this event at a later date.
Seminar on President
Kim Il Sung's Military StrategyAt this meeting, Hyon Hak Bong, Ambassador at the Embassy of the DPRK in London, will be guest of honour. He will speak on the founding of the DPRK on September 9, 1948, by President Kim Il Sung, which was a solemn declaration of the birth of people’s Korea, a great event which opened a new era of building a socialist state centred on the humanity of the Korea people.

The US today is as active as ever in pursuing its efforts to conquer the whole of the Korean peninsula so as to dominate all of Asia. The DPRK has drawn the conclusion that to be negligent in paying attention to the defence of its sovereignty would be a crime not only to its own people, but to the people of the world. It has drawn the conclusion that it must stand firm against the nuclear blackmail and might of the US military empire. The concrete reality of the DPRK shows the unbreakable unity of the people of the DPRK with their leadership and the armed forces. They have confidence in their socialist nation-building project, are proud citizens of the DPRK, and understand that throughout its history, under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and of President Kim Il Sung, General Secretary Kim Jong Il, and now Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un, the adherence to principle is the strength of the DPRK. The Korean Peninsula is sure to be peacefully reunified at this bedrock of principle, based on the reality that Korea is one!

On the occasion of their national day, WWIE sends warm greetings to the Korean people and is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with them in fighting for a new world, a world of peace and progress.