Them and Us - Letter sent to Northern Echo

Why do governments, whether Tory or Labour, allow immigration into the UK, to take, what the BNP call, British jobs?

Well it's like this. Immigrant workers increase the pool of available labour. By so doing they suppress the ability of "native" labour, to demand a "fairer" remuneration for their labour time. The owners of industry, as opposed to the sellers of labour, think this is a well-hard idea! Keep the plebs from getting ideas above their station, ie this is "their country", as much as it is that of the wealthy.

We actually live in two different countries.

On the one hand, we have a tiny minority of people, who actually own and control this land of "theirs".

On the obverse side of the coin, we have us, the vast majority, whose only real possession, is our ability to, labour. To use our mental and physical abilities, to earn a wage or salary.

The businesses we toil for, do not belong to us. Our only interest is our salary or wage, at the end of the week or month. Thereby ends our interest in the firms we toil for.

According to the Land Registry, 75% of the land mass of the UK belongs to approximately 1400 people. I am not one of them, are you? The figures on share ownership are similarly skewed, with less than 1% of the population owning over 99% of all marketable shares!

We live in two different countries. For the mouth-pieces of capitalism to say, "we are all in this together", is arrant lies and nonsense. Whether said by Coalition or Labour figures, makes not one jot of difference to we, the majority.

They own, we do not. We labour and toil, they do not. We are leaves on the capricious winds of capitalism's speculation, they are not. We worry about the price of food, energy, housing etc and all the fluctuations of this system, they do not.

Capitalism is not "fair" to the vast majority of we, the population of the Earth. It does not work in "our" interests. It subverts our "essential nature", as co-operative human beings. It and they treat us as dumb adjuncts to the productive process, that affords them vast wealth and opulence, whilst at the same time, condemning we, the majority, to the stress, poverty, starvation, homelessness, misery, insecurity, etc etc etc, that afflicts our lives every second, of everyday, of our lives.

Only a revolution in thought and understanding of this reality, will serve to free us from this penury, that is not the reality, of the privileged few.

Only a working together of we, the disenfranchised and powerless within the present system, capitalism, will ensure that we live in a world where we all, can live in dignity, inclusion and empowerment and not in want, insecurity and fear.

Steve Colborn

SOYMB would add

1) The fundamental cause of immigration is global capitalism. It causes huge
inequality in the world, inflicting poverty and deprivation on billions of
people. It also creates endless wars over natural resources, strategic areas
and other “vital interests”. This inequality and conflict impels people to
escape to better lives and safety.

2) Capitalism in Britain also causes inequality, poverty and deprivation
affecting millions of working class people who, unaware of the real cause of
their suffering, are prone to believe power-hungry politicians playing the
“race card” and blaming immigration for their problems.

3) By switching to classless moneyless real socialism, where the people
themselves directly owned and controlled the means of production and
distribution (farmland, oil fields, factories, power stations, railways
etc), the global population could use those assets to provide for all their
needs. Goods and services would all be freely available. And with an end to
deprivation, wars and money problems, people would no longer be compelled to
leave regions they were born in.