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From: "Robert Malecki" <malecki-AT-algonet.se>
Subject: M-G: "Radio Time" New Zealand  "reforms?"
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 21:00:25 +0100


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This is a first draft report for Straitfacts Radio on
New Zealand "reforms"?

Good Evening. This is Bob Malecki reporting for Straight Facts somewhere in northern Scandinavia quite near the Polar Circle! In fact, for our listeners, I should mention that the nearest large city, to me, is Murmansk, which houses the Russian North Atlantic fleet (including its once powerful nuclear submarine base).

New Zealand "reforms"?

A delegation of Swedish Social Democrats in power here in Sweden are now down in New Zealand getting the grand tour of New Zealand politics. And as it is linked into the discussion going on here about economies I thought I should take it up for our Radio public.

It appears that the Swedish Social democratic delagation is in reality dowm in NZ to learn about the system used by the present government which effectively builds a "tier" system of wages-- which for capitalism means driving down wage labor and splitting the class along high pay, middle pay and low paid jobs..According to the news here NZ has been particularly sucessful in this manuver and the Swedish Social Democratic class traitors want to learn how it was done!

This is just another of the moves by "new" Social democracy to desert its historical base in the working class and the unions in order to become the administrators of capitalism in a terminal crisis. In fact their role is to prepare the working class for a new round of imperialist confrontation and war. And we will be seeing once again in the not to far distant future the Social Democrats of the "Srcond International" once again voting foir war credits fot their *own* bourgeoisies as they did in both proceeding World wars.

As this is connected to the present drive in different parts of the world by social democratic governments and trade union bureaucracies as administrators of the capitalist/imperialist drive by different imperialist spheres to create economic spheres at the expense of the working class connected to downsizing and wripping apart the welfare states I thought I  could give some background, not only on the program, but the why's and what's and needs of the Swedish capitalist class in this part of the world...

Sweden is one of the most unionized countries in Europe and connected to both wages and taxes and extremely high expense for the rulling class. They need a system which will not only drive down wages, but in the process break the backs of the unions! And it is the new Social Democracy here which points the way. They in making the leap to new social democracy turning towards the middle class see also the trade unions and the trade union leaders as and obstical to their plans. They however can nor want to destroy the unions but onlt weaken their influence on the party's politics hitorically. Thus they become willing helpers to the ruling class in its ultimate goal of destroying the unions and taking us back to another age where poor and working class people had no mass organizations at all!

In America we have a far more unsofisticated and brutal method of driving down wages and smashing unions. This being the latest reform of the Democrats and Republicans with their "workfare/welfare program which is used a a cheap alternative to organized labor while at the same time pointing a gun at poor and working class people and saying work or starve to death!

At least here in Sweden the big picture is to use this "reform" is to increase profits in order to do two things.

1. To join the wild west atmosphere capitalist counter-revolution which has taken place in the east (the Baltic States, Poland, the former USSR)..Labor their is probably cheaper then in the former South East Asia "Tiger" economies these days but enormous capital investment in machines and technical equipment is need by the capitalists in order to set up operations and use these countries as a cheap labor market in increasing inter-imperialist rivilry..

2. Of playing the monetary union card of building and economic sphere and fortess Europa based on the Geman Central Bank and its drive to build the Fourth Reich!
Because it is not sweden or France or Italy --But Germany which is the economic powerhouse in this part of the world as is America is in its part of the world and Japan in its part of the world..
This synical attempt by the reformist traitors of Swedish Social democracy as it leaps to the right and adopting the program of the conservatives will hardly help them solve the problems facing poor and working class today in Sweden or anywhere else.

In fact the need for organizing a Revolutionary Marxist Party both here and Internationally which sets as its goal the destruction of capitalism/impeerialism through proletarian revolution and will be the tribune of all the oppressed both at home and abroad is the only real solution which can save poor and working class from the pyramids of skulles the ruling classes are now preparing as they once again go into a period of terminal crisis..
This is Bob Maleck reporting for Straitfacts Radio in Sweden.
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NEW! "RADIO TIME"  In cooperation with Straitfacts, Bob
Malecki will be giving occasional reports to Straitfacts
Radio audiences in the United States. Text for these
reports now on line. 
http://www.algonet.se/~malecki
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This is a first draft report for Straitfacts Radio on
New Zealand "reforms"?
 
Good Evening. This is Bob Malecki reporting for Straight Facts somewhere in northern Scandinavia quite near the Polar Circle! In fact, for our listeners, I should mention that the nearest large city, to me, is Murmansk, which houses the Russian North Atlantic fleet (including its once powerful nuclear submarine base).
 
New Zealand "reforms"?
 
A delegation of Swedish Social Democrats in power here in Sweden are now down in New Zealand getting the grand tour of New Zealand politics. And as it is linked into the discussion going on here about economies I thought I should take it up for our Radio public.
 
It appears that the Swedish Social democratic delagation is in reality dowm in NZ to learn about the system used by the present government which effectively builds a "tier" system of wages-- which for capitalism means driving down wage labor and splitting the class along high pay, middle pay and low paid jobs..According to the news here NZ has been particularly sucessful in this manuver and the Swedish Social Democratic class traitors want to learn how it was done!
 
This is just another of the moves by "new" Social democracy to desert its historical base in the working class and the unions in order to become the administrators of capitalism in a terminal crisis. In fact their role is to prepare the working class for a new round of imperialist confrontation and war. And we will be seeing once again in the not to far distant future the Social Democrats of the "Srcond International" once again voting foir war credits fot their *own* bourgeoisies as they did in both proceeding World wars.
 
As this is connected to the present drive in different parts of the world by social democratic governments and trade union bureaucracies as administrators of the capitalist/imperialist drive by different imperialist spheres to create economic spheres at the expense of the working class connected to downsizing and wripping apart the welfare states I thought I  could give some background, not only on the program, but the why's and what's and needs of the Swedish capitalist class in this part of the world...
 
Sweden is one of the most unionized countries in Europe and connected to both wages and taxes and extremely high expense for the rulling class. They need a system which will not only drive down wages, but in the process break the backs of the unions! And it is the new Social Democracy here which points the way. They in making the leap to new social democracy turning towards the middle class see also the trade unions and the trade union leaders as and obstical to their plans. They however can nor want to destroy the unions but onlt weaken their influence on the party's politics hitorically. Thus they become willing helpers to the ruling class in its ultimate goal of destroying the unions and taking us back to another age where poor and working class people had no mass organizations at all!
 
In America we have a far more unsofisticated and brutal method of driving down wages and smashing unions. This being the latest reform of the Democrats and Republicans with their "workfare/welfare program which is used a a cheap alternative to organized labor while at the same time pointing a gun at poor and working class people and saying work or starve to death!
 
At least here in Sweden the big picture is to use this "reform" is to increase profits in order to do two things.
 
1. To join the wild west atmosphere capitalist counter-revolution which has taken place in the east (the Baltic States, Poland, the former USSR)..Labor their is probably cheaper then in the former South East Asia "Tiger" economies these days but enormous capital investment in machines and technical equipment is need by the capitalists in order to set up operations and use these countries as a cheap labor market in increasing inter-imperialist rivilry..
 
2. Of playing the monetary union card of building and economic sphere and fortess Europa based on the Geman Central Bank and its drive to build the Fourth Reich!
Because it is not sweden or France or Italy --But Germany which is the economic powerhouse in this part of the world as is America is in its part of the world and Japan in its part of the world..
 
This synical attempt by the reformist traitors of Swedish Social democracy as it leaps to the right and adopting the program of the conservatives will hardly help them solve the problems facing poor and working class today in Sweden or anywhere else.
 
In fact the need for organizing a Revolutionary Marxist Party both here and Internationally which sets as its goal the destruction of capitalism/impeerialism through proletarian revolution and will be the tribune of all the oppressed both at home and abroad is the only real solution which can save poor and working class from the pyramids of skulles the ruling classes are now preparing as they once again go into a period of terminal crisis..
This is Bob Maleck reporting for Straitfacts Radio in Sweden.
-------------------------------------------------------
Check Out My HomePage where you can,
 
Read or download the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara,
Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Crystalball!
 
And Now the International Communist League Page!
Just push on the "Spartacist" Button.
 
Or Get The Latest Issue of,
COCKROACH, a zine for poor and working-class people.
NEW! "RADIO TIME"  In cooperation with Straitfacts, Bob
Malecki will be giving occasional reports to Straitfacts
Radio audiences in the United States. Text for these
reports now on line. 
 
http://www.algonet.se/~malecki
-------------------------------------------------------
 
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