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Steve Wallis is a revolutionary socialist, fighting for a world based on people not profit – free from poverty, unemployment, homelessness, discrimination, famines, deaths from preventable diseases, war and environmental destruction. A “revolutionary” believes sudden and complete change is needed, important though fighting for reforms is. Steve argues for a Democratic Socialist Alliance (DSA), open to all kinds of socialists, which like the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) will have organised and open factions, known as “platforms”.
You cannot prevent people with similar views from setting up organisations within a larger party or alliance, and it is better to allow open platforms rather than trying unsuccessfully to ban them (like the Labour Party did with the Militant Tendency, happily allowing right-wing organisations like the Fabian Society while hypocritically saying that you cannot have “a party within a party”).
Steve is also planning to establish a Revolutionary Platform of the DSA, with a single requirement that members are revolutionary socialists rather than reformists, as the best way to unify the left in England. He will sometimes live in Glasgow but be based in Fallowfield, and additionally establish a Revolutionary Platform of the SSP.
Steve prefers non-violent methods of achieving change, and refuses to support terrorist acts which are not just morally repugnant but counterproductive, but supports genuine left-wing movements that do involve violence such as the Zapatistas in Mexico and the struggle against the terrorist Contras (backed by the CIA) in Nicaragua.
To really be green you need to be red, and we support more
wheelchair accessible public transport like Metrolink.
Support the Kyrgyzstan revolution – against electoral fraud and poverty
The overthrow of the old government in Kyrgyzstan, which clearly rigged the
elections, differs from earlier revolutions in other countries formerly in the
USSR (Georgia and Ukraine) in being largely spontaneous and much more working
class (due to the extreme poverty and shortage of a middle class in
Kyrgyzstan).
The opposition to the previous regime was and still is very divided. This could lead to a lot of violence, but it could make it easier for genuine socialist forces to arise. With the presence of both US and Russian bases in that country, the revolution could be a big setback for both US and Russian imperialism.
Support a free Palestine and Israeli whistle-blower who revealed nuclear secrets
Israeli
soldiers last year murdered a Palestinian schoolgirl, Iman al-Hams, in the
Southern Gaza Strip, causing outrage in Israel. The soldiers didn’t even think
she was male or older – they thought that she was a 10-year old girl!
The Israeli regime is building an “apartheid wall”, which stops Palestinians from moving between Palestine and Israel (and even within Palestine, which the wall is partly inside) without travelling for many miles and wating for ages (sometimes days) at checkpoints. This wall must be brought down, like the Berlin Wall in Germany. [DSA contains “democratic” in its name to distinguish itself from the Stalinist regimes that collapsed in the USSR and Eastern Europe.]
Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician in a nuclear power plant that was also being used to develop nuclear weapons, spent about 18 years in jail for revealing secrets to the mass media. Despite not knowing anything more (even if he was lying, his knowledge would have been massively out-of-date), he was banned from leaving Israel or talking to the media. He finally defied the media ban and was re-arrested twice to try to intimidate him.
Steve was arrested outside M&S for handing out leaflets calling for a boycott of Israeli goods, pointing out the murder of Iman and supporting Mordechia. He is ¼ Jewish and a supporter of Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
Boycott Coke and Nestlé/Nescafé – stop corporate murders!
Dictators in Latin America, including Pinochet in Chile, came to power due to support from the CIA, but they were kept in place largely by funding from Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola. Now the management of Coke bottling plants in Colombia are (allegedly) responsible for hiring death squads to murder leading trade unionists.
On Channel 4, Mark Thomas revealed that Nestlé sold their baby milk powder in Africa with a lot of advertising, although breastfeeding is healthier, and deliberately put different languages on the containers from those understood in those countries. It is expensive, so parents have often over-diluted it, causing malnutrition and death.
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