As Russell Brand prepares to take on Farage …

Russell Brand protesting with New Era estate tenants against profiteering landlord Westbrook, photo Paul Mattsson

Russell Brand

As Russell Brand prepares to take on Farage …

Time to build the fight for socialist revolution

Many people across the UK are waiting in eager anticipation for the battle between Russell Brand and Nigel Farage on Thursday night’s BBC Question Time programme (11 December).

Over the recent period Russell Brand has been an outspoken critic of austerity and the political establishment where all three parties, Tory, Labour and Lib Dem, believe ordinary people should pay for the crisis. The 99% suffer at the hands of global capitalism and the 1% at the top continue to prosper.
Brand’s series of shows, ‘The Trews’, have become popular as an expression of anger against the system, while his book, simply titled ‘Revolution’, captures the growing mood for change in society.

Meanwhile Farage has falsely painted himself as an opponent of the same political establishment, which is rich considering he is of true right-wing banking stock and would carry out even worse austerity given half the chance.
UKIP, despite how it portrays itself, is very much part of the capitalist system, and part of the problem. For example, its two new MPs were recruited from the Conservative Party!

Fire minister Penny Mordaunt is also on the Question Time panel; three days after the latest firefighters’ strike in defence of pensions (see NSSN website for video).

However the debate pans out on Thursday night, the Socialist Party believes we need to build support for fundamental change, for socialist change, where the needs of the majority are put before the drive for profit, where production is based on human need and safeguarding our environment.

A socialist world is the aim of the Socialist Party and our sister parties in over 45 countries worldwide in the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI).

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