Friday, June 8, 2007

Different Sides of the same coin

In the most countries, of what we call west, the political system is characterized by the alternation between two political Parties. In the USA there are the Democrats and the Republicans, in Britain the Conservatives and the Labours, in Spain the Spanish Socialist Workers Party and Peoples Party, in Greece PASOK ( Social Democrats) and the New Democracy (Neoliberals). The same situation is happening in most of the other countries with The Neoliberals and the Social democrats to alternate in the governments.
This is called the two-Party political system.
The main characteristic of the two-Party political System is that the two Parties have no differences on main aspects of their policy. The two Parties practise the same policy when they are governments and make opposition when they are not. They work so to disorientate the people from understanding of the causes of the real problems of their lives, the real problems of everyday.
Let us see some examples. What is the policy of the Democrats and the Republicans in the USA in the case of war? For the period after the 1990. The Republicans made the first war in Iraq. The Democrats made the war in Yugoslavia and the Balkans and then the Republicans made the war in Afghanistan and the second war in Iraq. Today the Democrats ask the government to take back the troops from Iraq and on the same time some of their candidates for the Presidential elections of 2008 had voted in favour of the invasion of Iraq!! What about the new law for the immigrants and the agreement of the two parties.
In Italy the government the left Party contributed in the war in Yugoslavia and then the government of the right party contributed in the war in Iraq. Today the government of Romano Prodi one year after the elections is planning the transformation of thousands of work places from permanent to provisional the same way as the right government Silvio Berlousconi did.
In Greece New Democracy, that is now ruling, is applying the laws of the previous government of PASOK about work, health. Both of them are supporting the privatization of education.
What is the reason of this coincidence of the political views?
The Social democrats and the Neoliberals, no matter what is the name of the party that they have in every country, are serving the same interests. Their policy is in favor of businessman and bankers. The rise of their profits (businessman and bankers) and their strength. Their policy is against the interests of the working people and we can show many examples to prove this.
The people must disengage from this political parties and their policy. On the question are you with the democrats or the republicans (the Social democrats or the Neoliberals) the people must answer not with the republicans nor the democrats (not with the Neoliberals nor the Social democrats) we are with working people's interests. In every country people must find the political party, and if there is not one then must establish it, that serves their interests and not the interests of the big capital.
They are different sides of the same coin and we must through them away!!!

1 comment:

The Observer said...

Excelletn post Jamal. You made good points. I guess that they only differ in their shell while in fact as you stated, they both serve the same people!