The usual Christmas joy is somewhat restrained this year because of the spectre of the recession with its wage-cuts and lower living standards. Preparations for a festive gorge are accompanied by the cry of the starving millions throughout the world. On the one hand, we have lavish luxurious feasting, without limit or restraint; and on the other hand, the starving and the famished deprived of even the meagre essentials for keeping body and soul together. Never a word said about the huge over-stocked warehouses and stores. No mention of the fact that those who created these stocks are compelled to go without a Christmas dinner. Not a slightest indication as to how to prevent a recurrence of the depression and more unemployment. Nothing, in fact, but to throw a scrap of charity at the hungry.
If we are to have capitalism, then there must be poverty; and to end the latter means to end the former, and to abolish capitalism means to organise and work for a social revolution. There is no other remedy, and every day spent in tinkering with false hopes simply delays the inevitable day.
Our greeting to our fellow workers on this Christmas is a message of hope. Our policy is clear. Away with capitalism and class exploitation. Away with palliatives of any sort, and on with the revolution. Until those who produce are prepared to control what they produce, things will get no better but only grow worse.
We live in strange times and new thoughts stir in the minds of men and women. Christmas is seen as the symbol of new birth. Let it symbolise the birth of the new communist world.
Christmas Greetings for the Revolution.
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