Michael Chant chatting to NCP comrade Theo Russell at the do
by New Worker correspondent
NCP comrades joined friends from the RCPB (ML) at the social held at the
John Buckle Centre in south London last month to welcome the New Year
in style.
In his welcoming toast RCPB (ML) leader Michael Chant said: “I want to
raise a glass to all our friends who are here: friends from the New
Communist Party; friends from the anti-fascist movement; friends from
the movement for rights, and so on. It is very important to get together
on such occasions, not only to be convivial and to develop fraternal
unity and the unity of the people’s movement, but also to assess what
the tasks are as we go into the New Year, the tasks that the communist
and the workers’ movements and people’s movements are faced with. For us
2012 was a year of consolidation for RCPB (ML): we consolidated
ourselves on various fronts (particularly on the journalism front); on
the front of a technical base of our new paper and also on the front of
mobilising the youth for modern communism, which we think is very
important...
"This is my
toast on this occasion: we live in one world in which there's a struggle going
on between two outlooks: the outlook of the capitalists and the outlook of the
working class – which is the human-centred outlook. In this coming year, this
fight to affirm the rights of the people we are sure will take centre stage.
One of the most important rights in this respect is the right of the people to
be involved in making all of the decisions which control their lives and as
everyone involved in the struggle knows, this is one of the major things that
is denied the people: to have any say in the decisions which affect their
lives. This goes on in every level of society: from the workplace to public
services and crucially people are denied the right to take decisions on what
direction the country is taking, what direction the economy is taking and what
direction society is taking. So it is to this new direction that I would like
to raise a toast as we begin to think about our tasks for 2013. For a
new direction for society!
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