“No matter which party wins the election, the rulers in the United Kingdom will continue to wage imperialist wars, like the ones in Afghanistan and Iraq,” said Peter Clifford, Communist League candidate for parliament from Edinburgh East. Clifford, second from left above, while on a postal workers picket line last year in Scotland, was commenting after the recent decision by British prime minister Anthony Blair to call a general election in the United Kingdom on May 5. “Such wars are an extension of their attacks on working people at home,” Clifford added. “The parties of capitalism—Labour, Liberal Democrats, Conservative, Scottish National Party—may differ on details. But they’re united in seeking to offload the crisis onto the backs of working people.

“All such parties view workers and exploited farmers as the object of their policies. The Communist League, to the contrary, is presenting a platform that flows out of the struggles of working people themselves. At the center of this platform is the need to organize and strengthen the unions, to use union power to resist the bosses’ attacks; to get UK and all imperialist troops out of Iraq now; to oppose the threats against Iran and north Korea; and to defend the right of semicolonial countries to electrification, which is necessary for industrial development and raising the cultural level of all toilers, by any means, including through nuclear power.”  
 
 
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