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STAR
May 2011
“Don't read that – it's full of Truth!”
concerned with pot-holes than cuts. Thanks Foreign Newsdesk Welcome to the first issue of the Plymouth Star. Labour. How about putting down the rose and Barnstaple Elections We hope to produce a monthly online broadsheet picking up your red flag again. Comrades from both Devon branches have been covering left events in and around the city. This first issue has made the leap from online to print AV Referendum – Communists say “No” on the streets of Barnstaple this week in the build and has been funded from our own pockets, “The problem with the No Campaign is that they up to the local elections. Gerrard Sables, North Devon Communist supported by the South Devon Branch of the have got their arguments wrong – the problem Communist Party. If you would like to contribute, with the Yes Campaign is that they have got their Party Branch Secretary, is contesting the Barnstaple Central ward of the local parish council. or think there is something we should be facts wrong” said Tim Gulliver, South Devon “Stifling growth, getting people sacked and commenting on, contact us via our online version: Branch Secretary at a local meeting this week. victimising them when they claim benefits is no www.issuu.com/plymouthstar The Communist Party, which has way to build any society let alone a big one,” said supported changing the electoral system to a proportional one since 1944, has called AV “a red Gerry. Local Elections In a bold move, rather than simply This month all the usual suspects will line up for herring. . . entrenching the worst aspects of First leafleting each property, the North Devon Branch the annual beauty contest that is the Plymouth Past The Post”. has individually addressed a leaflet to every voter in City Council elections. The Lib-Dem and Tory As both the “yes” and “no” campaigns candidates seem to be laying low so far. Perhaps assert that AV will either give more, or too much, the constituency. With this approach every voter even they can now see the train crash of policies influence to the smaller parties, the position of the should see the Communist Party’s policies, rather than leaflets being censored into the bin. being pumped out by the Con-Dems in Communist Party may seem unexpected. When asked if it was worthwhile for Westminster. “In fact AV takes influence away from communists to stand in elections Gerry was One big shock is the number of UKIP smaller parties,” Tim explains. “It will make candidates standing. Perhaps they are hoping to get politics a dull and middle of the road arena where defiant. “I actually believe that standing in elections is a duty. There are so many places in the Plymouth to leave the EU and become its own politicians try and chase as many second choice separate country. The team here at the Star are not votes as possible. Smaller political parties may pick world where communists are not allowed to do so exactly what you would call “pro-European” up a few first choice votes, but these will quickly that my campaign is also for them.” There are five seats available in the ward. anyone with half a brain can see the EU is nothing be eliminated and the same old parties will mop up Standing alongside Gerry are four Liberal but a pro-business rich man's club used to exploit the second preferences”. Democrat candidates and one Conservative. workers, drive down wages and prop up corrupt The Communist Party rejects the and failing capitalist financial institutions. But we mainstream “no” campaign's fear tactics. AV don't need a middle class version of the BNP to tell would not cost a huge sum of money, nor would it Exeter May Day us that! hand power to extremists. AV does not undermine As well as today's march in Plymouth, the Exeter Anti-Cuts Alliance is organising a day of protests And as for Labour. . . in a year when the our democracy, nor does it improve it. and events on May 2nd. Visit rest of us are fighting the most vicious government It is not only a “miserable little agenda in generations, the Labour Rose newsletter compromise” it is a dangerous diversion from true www.exeteranticutsalliance.org.uk for more details. that was pushed through my door was more democratic reform.
Editorial
Marx was Right! (Lenin not bad either)
We thought in this first issude we'd better nail our colours up the flag pole – or some other mixed metaphor. The world has just passed through the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s. Over production, under consumption, over consumption, financialisation, default credit, dead capital, fictitious capital, housing bubbles, housing crashes, record personal debt, record corporate debt, growing government debt – who could have predicted all of that? Well a guy called Karl Marx did actually. Even the dear old Guardian has started publishing articles by Marxist thinkers and economists. Marxists economists! Do they still exist? Lets get one thing straight, the system we have now is rubbish. The only countries in the world to ever have 0% unemployment are socialist ones. Who is running the better system?
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