‘6 CALLS TO ACTION’ (& “6 responses”!) - (poem)

‘6 CALLS TO ACTION’

(& “6 responses”!)

The Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist at its

16^th Congress issued ‘6 Calls to Action’ as shown in the

September edition of their monthly journal ‘Workers’

CALL 1.

‘Remove ourselves from the EU

and European capital’.

“But capital exists worldwide,

Thus this first call’s to be decried,

As somewhat problematical”!

Call 2.

‘Defend our national sovereignty’.

“Like all good internationalists!

And join with UKIP in this spree,

Or even with the BNP,

And fight the E.U. with our fists”!

Call 3.

‘Rebuild all our trade unions’.

“So when the slump has gone way,

And if the bosses don’t dissent,

We can demand that one percent,

Is added to ‘A Fair Days Pay’“!

Call 4.

‘The Fight for pay is central to

the real survival of our class’.

“So let’s retain wage-slavery,

And its attendant knavery,

And stay as ‘Workers’ in this farce”!

Call 5.

‘Regenerate our Industry’.

“As bosses really are ‘our’ chums,

Get them to boost the national cake,

In which they own the utmost stake,

So we can still collect the crumbs”!

Call 6.

‘Let’s Build the Party so the proles

can change their ideology’.

“In practice this will be reversed,

As Revolution must come first,

In the C.P’s. mythology”!

© Richard Layton