Gloucestershire County Council Election May 1st!
Show your support for real democracy, socialism, by voting for Piers Hobson (Socialist Party of Great Britain).
This might be the last Gloucestershire County Council Election. The government seems intent on reorganising the County and District Councils. This will result in fewer representatives and a concentration of strategic power in the hands of a regional Mayor.
This is democracy in the capitalist system: a choice between candidates for office with only marginally different sets of policies. Once elected those in office can tinker with the system but not the rules of capitalism: those without wealth are beholden to those who do, profit comes first not human needs, and can't pay - can't have.
But what can we do? Unlike the architects of local government devolution, Socialists believe not that there is too much democracy, but that there isn't enough. The rules of capitalism have not been in place for all of human history and we don't need them in future. Getting rid of the rules of capitalism and creating a real democratic future can't be brought about from above. It has to come from a majority of people.
Object: The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the whole community.
