Does the working class still exist?

Who are the working class? It is the 99%. The workers are anyone who has to sell their labour power for wages.

What does that mean?

It means that if you have to earn wages, do jobs for money, you are a member of the working class.

Yes there are various categories, degrees, wage differentials and those who cannot work for whatever reason within that class. We are a home for all of them. Not a home for the billionaires, the elite. And when you can no longer work for whatever reason, unless you have your feet up on a Caribbean island sipping drinks under the shade of a coconut tree, you’re still a member of the working-class, whether you are a disabled worker, or a retired worker etc.

The Workers Party of Britain emerged out of the complete abandonment of the working class majority of Great Britain by Labour. Labour are Labour in name only. Labour do not represent the workers, they serve the elite, the class that does not work: the ruling class. But Labour likes to pretend it is on the side of the workers. It has stolen the name “Labour”. Labour is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Economics

The Workers Party believes in an economy that works for the working class people, the vast majority. The workers create all the wealth in society; build the houses, man the hospitals, power the machinery, everywhere you look workers designed, planned, built, maintained or operate the things society needs, yet they do not get their full share. The jungle law of capitalism is that the strong take from the weak. We believe in the importance of a planned economy, in a directing role for the state to ensure jobs, industry and the country works fairly. Free-market fundamentalism has gutted Britain of its industries, undermined our manufacturing and productive industries, castrating our society and adversely destabilising proud working-class traditions, culture and way of life.

Foreign policy

We seek amity not enmity with the rest of the world. The populist Right and the major parties objectively serve imperialism. What is imperialism? Imperialism has been described by our members in their own words here. One of our members, Rob, says very well that:

Imperialism, known as the highest stage of capitalism, is
essentially a global economic system of financial domination by a handful of wealthy countries, backed up by military power.

Rob

The supporters of imperialism have tried to whip up nationalist and militarist fervour in Britain. They won’t do the fighting but they expect working class boys and girls to go into harms way, often poorly equipped and for the wrong reasons. These bloody proxy wars are waged in order to deflect attention from crises at home.  Foreign adventurism and political grandstanding have drained the country of the funds and energy required to deal with serious problems in our social and economic infrastructure, in public services and in maintaining a sense of security in our communities.

But let us be clear, we are not pacifists and we are not weak-kneed liberals. The British establishment has made this country highly vulnerable to nuclear and terrorist acts and organised crime. We will increase some security expenditures especially in support of our soldiery and law enforcement.

Socialism & history

The Workers Party is a socialist organisation. We stand on principles and will not give these up, one by one, in the misplaced hope of a truce with our enemy.

The Workers Party stands with all those that have attempted to break free of imperialist domination and build a different kind of world. We defend the achievements of the USSR, China, Cuba etc, not least the debt owed by humanity to the Soviet Union and Red Army in their war of liberation against German fascism. Our finest hour as a nation was when we stood side by side with Soviet Russia and defeated German Nazism.

We categorically reject the attempt by the ruling class, its paid agents and the EU imperialist bloc to rewrite history so as to equate the Soviet Union with Hitlerite Germany. We shall defend the positive historical legacy of the Soviet Union as well as all those today who struggle for socialism; for an alternative world order.