Hi! – My name is Steve Wallis. I am a
socialist and I believe that the main aim of New Labour’s ID cards proposal is
to increase harassment and persecution of the left – and socialists in particular
– because we are a threat to the continued control of society by big business.
To visit my socialist web page, click here.
LATEST NEWS – I have had a lot of other priorities lately, and have not been able to keep up with the latest news on ID cards, but I will make it a higher priority since I intend to make it a major plank of
my manifesto for the next general election. The best place (that I have found) on the internet to look is the NO2ID website. New Labour have now announced that they want to make ID cards compulsory yet force people to buy them for £35. They will use biometric technology to recongnise owners’ fingerprints, eyes and face. The plan to combine ID cards with a passport and/or driving licence is to be scrapped. Draconian fines of £1,000 or £2,500 for failing to tell the state where you live have been mooted. This could turn into New Labour’s poll tax!
JOIN AN INTERNET DISCUSSION LIST – There are at least three discussion lists on the internet, including one set up by me. To find out how to subscribe to one and/or read messages on their archives, click here.
EARLY RESOLUTION – I formulated a draft resolution opposing ID cards, and eventually got a similar resolution passed by my socialist alliance in early 2003. To read the early resolution, click here.
RESOLUTION FOR RESPECT CONFERENCE – I modified the draft resolution for submission to the national conference of “
Respect: the Unity Coalition” at the end of October. The resolution was unanimously passed at a meeting of Greater Manchester Respect. However, it was remitted at the conference due to a shorter resolution at the conference. Nevertheless, about 350 people will have received copies of it amongst other resolutions, and would have had the opportunity to read my views on the issue, so submitting it was not a waste of time. To read the Respect resolution, click here.
A LEAFLET – To read the contents of a leaflet I distributed in March 2003, click here.
ANTI-ID CARDS GROUPS – I recently set up the Campaign for Democracy in the UK with ten demands, one of which is opposition to ID cards.
Defy-ID calls itself “an ad hoc network of groups and individuals prepared for active resistance to increasing surveillance and the introduction of identity or ‘entitlement’ cards in the UK”. Various organisations that support Defy-ID are listed on its home page, and other civil liberties groups (which probably won’t support actions which break the law) can be found by visiting that organisation’s links page by clicking here. Another organisation campaigning against ID cards is NO2ID, which contains some good information on its website.