The decision by the Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend parliament lays bare how quickly the Tories and their supporters will ditch democracy when it suits them. This move is nothing more than an undemocratic manoeuvre designed to over-rule elected MP’s and force through either a Johnson Brexit deal or no deal at all. Ironic, given the Prime Minister has been elected by less than 0.25% of the electorate.
The PCS Broad Left Network believes that Jeremy Corbyn and the whole of the Trade Union movement need to urgently launch a mass campaign to force an immediate General Election. It is crucial that we grab the moment and build on the demonstrations which took place in the wake of Johnson’s announcement.
PCS has a pivotal role to play in this and the union must now use the opportunity it gives to lead the call for a General Election and the return of a Corbyn led government on an anti-austerity programme. The fact that the current General Secretary Mark Serwotka is the President of the TUC should be used to pivotal effect to the advantage of not only PCS members but for working class families the length and breadth of the UK to mobilise workers and build support for the demand for an immediate General Election. The TUC congress in less than a fortnight could become a real call to arms for this demand across our movement. The intervention from PCS could be decisive and needs to be the subject of discussion at the National Executive that meets next week.
PCS must pull out all the stops to support Jeremy Corbyn’s intention to institute a vote of no-confidence in the Tory government of Boris Johnson, to force a general election and campaign for a Corbyn-led Labour Government on an anti-austerity programme.
We do not support the attempts by politicians to support a ‘national unity’ government led by right wing Labour politicians, Tories or Independents. The capitalist establishment support this as they fear that anything led by Jeremy Corbyn may lead to an elected Corbyn government which would act against austerity and in the interests of working people including thousands of Civil Service and public sector workers. A so-called “national unity” government not led by Corbyn would act in the interests of big business and capitalism.
It is crucial
now that the TUC and the unions mobilise to build on the protests breaking out
all over the country, demonstrations for a general election and for a
government to be elected with a clear anti-austerity programme ,
including the repeal of anti-Trade Union laws.
It is only the trade union movement, mobilised for a general election, which can really unite working people by cutting through the fog that right wing politicians and media have created over Brexit. We can reclaim the ground to put forward our demands about fighting for decent jobs, pay and conditions and our services to help win the implementation of an anti-austerity programme to benefit thousands of working class families including PCS members.
PCS Broad Left Network 