We know that the present system stinks, is corrupt, unjust, exploitative and panders to the 1% pampered parasite group of arrogant greedy millionaires, but what do we put in its place? The A World to Win group have put together "an agreement of the People for 2012", what do anarchists think?
An Agreement of the People for 2012
In the light of the ConDems plan to turn Britain
into a total market state and Ed Miilband’s plan for Labour to
“save
capitalism from itself”, we present a 2012 draft of the
Agreement of the People (with deference to the Levellers and their
1647
version debated at Putney).
hereas
the current British state political system is undemocratic and unjust
in that:- the state is a highly centralised, alienating power that has established itself above society as a whole
- this power is exercised primarily on behalf of dominant economic and financial interests
- legal authority does not come from the people as citizens, but from the Monarchy, Lords and Commons
- the House of Commons is a powerless assembly rather than an independent transforming legislature
- Members of Parliament do not exercise any real control over ministers or civil servants
- a surveillance state secretly monitors and tracks the legitimate activities of activists, trade unionists and protesters
- increasing numbers of “arms-length” quasi-state agencies have been created which are totally unaccountable at central and local level
- local government has lost its relative autonomy and is now reduced to carrying out central government orders and decisions
- the state has abandoned primary responsibility in a number of areas including housing, higher education and care in older age in favour of markets
- the states refuses to take steps to cut carbon emissions and other measures to meet the challenge of climate change.ann arky's home.
