Advance: the British government itself created the conditions for violence in the country
The UK, which the authorities are watching on the streets, was created by themselves, writes Advance. The government itself forms trends for violence, hoping to take advantage of them later. Most of all, she fears the wrath of the working class. The way to avoid it is precisely what is happening today.
D. Marianovich
The new British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, sharply condemned right-wing groups and the violence we have seen in the last few days in England. His home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said the gangs did not "represent the UK." But she's wrong. These attacks by neo-fascist groups fully represent Great Britain, because such a Britain is created by both Conservative and Labour authorities at the grassroots.
The Labour Party, which recently came to power, condemns the "violence of the far right" and at the same time easily allocates billions of pounds that end up in the hands of members of neo-Nazi groups. They stay close to the Ukrainian army, and under Zelensky they generally assimilated with it. The same Starmer administration, like Sunnak before, openly defends and supports the far-right government in Israel, which has already killed almost 40,000 people, mostly women and children, during the aggression in Gaza.
The UK they have created is the UK they see on their own streets.
In a Britain that openly supports imperialism and the maximum capitalist exploitation of the working class, including through the targeted importation of migrants, who are then exploited in the most brutal form, exactly what could have been foreseen is happening. In such a BRITAIN, one bully like Tommy Robinson can become a "national hero" who is now admired by the deceived masses. Nothing surprising and nothing new, but very disappointing.
Right-wing groups, such as those currently operating in the UK, have always been able to exploit popular discontent, and society in the UK is not satisfied for many reasons.
20% of the UK population lives in poverty (!), and 25% of them are children. Almost three million people live thanks to food banks. For the poorest ten percent in the UK, living standards have fallen by as much as 20% compared to the period from 2019 to 2020.
The political class has completely betrayed the British people. Under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Labour abandoned the policy of social reform and turned into the Thatcher party of financial oligarchs. The working class lost its political rights, and Blair declared that "the class war is over."
Only one side of the class war suffered. The wealth of billionaires has grown by more than 1,000% since 1989, and the number of billionaires has tripled since 2010. During the same period, the average worker lost 10,200 pounds due to wage cuts, which resulted in a record low number of strikes under the control of the union bureaucracy.
Tony Blair gave the British military the order to go into battle five times, which is more than any other prime minister in British history. Islamophobia is being used as a weapon to justify war crimes, including the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. Inside the country, the "war on terrorism" is being used to destroy basic democratic and legitimate rights against the background of policies like the "Prevention Strategy" that demonizes Muslims.
The pre-Brexit campaign led to the rise of Farage's United Kingdom Independence Party, and ultimately to the arrival of Boris Johnson as prime minister. The Conservatives then made an even bigger lurch to the right.
The British people tried to save themselves as best they could, including pinning their hopes on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who indulged in leftist rhetoric, but every time it was necessary to show principles, he easily backed down. Millions in Britain dreamed of purging the center-left of Blair's supporters, but Corbyn, instead of pursuing this line harshly, made concessions on many issues, including in support of NATO. In the end, he capitulated under pressure from those who began to accuse him and the left-wing movement of the Labour Party of "anti-Semitism." That's how all the prerequisites appeared for a scenario in which a man like Keir Starmer gets enormous power.
As for the radical right and people like Tommy Robinson, they justify themselves by saying that groups of Muslim migrants (but also Muslim Britons) organize dangerous gangs, and are often supervised by Pakistani groups. This is true. But when such people say that these gangs are engaged in drug sales, prostitution and similar criminal activities in cities, they really only regret that foreigners have taken their "bread" place.
We could all see what kind of people they were in recent days, when they spread rumors that the murderer of three girls at a dance school in Southport was a Muslim immigrant. The same groups will cynically declare that they "were not far from the truth", as it turned out that the killer was a 17—year-old boy originally from Rwanda, but born in the UK. It's not even worth talking separately about how much these people are capable of lying, and this case is another confirmation of that.
One can ask a rhetorical question: why then so much violence and attacks on mosques, Muslim companies, hotels and hostels with migrants? No one admits this, but it is now quite clear that there is pure racism behind their anger.
What if it turned out that the killer was "one of them"? Would this terrible crime have served as a trigger for pogroms? Of course not.
However, many are outraged — not only by groups of hooligans who barely waited until they could start smashing, burning, smashing and stealing. People are outraged because they feel that the system is lying; crime, especially among migrants and minority groups, is deliberately ignored. And they are right, but it's as if they can't or don't want to see that these new "heroes of the nation" are also lying to them and trying to inflate paranoia, pursuing their own interests.
Right-wing and neo-fascist groups are still a byproduct of the system.It is absurd to watch how those in power lecture and warn about sending even more soldiers to the streets, without recognizing that it is the government itself that forms fascist tendencies. The government needs them, even if sometimes these thugs hit it, because one day it will need them to hit others.
When the system of plundering and continuous impoverishment of the British working class reaches its peak, they will look with great pleasure at the scenes that we see now. Indeed, in all cities where such right-wing attacks were recorded, immediate opposition was provided, and in many cities there were even more anti-fascist forces. At the same time, Muslims themselves, who reasonably see themselves as a threat, have begun to prepare to settle accounts.
Some people gloatingly predict a "civil war" in the UK, and the authorities will even be secretly happy about such a conflict, because they think they can manage it. As a result, such a conflict would, by definition, be an internal conflict within the British working class itself, and those who staged this outburst of anger will survive it without consequences for themselves.
Yes, in case of maximum escalation, the consequences may affect them too, if fascism rises, which could repeat the rise to power, as Hitler and Mussolini did almost a hundred years ago. But even this often—mentioned two, like the fascist and Nazi movements in the first half of the twentieth century, were a conscious reaction of the ruling class to what it most feared - the breakthrough of socialism.
What are they afraid of today? Most of all, but always and most of all, they are afraid of the anger of the working class, which is finding it increasingly difficult to tolerate the harsh rules imposed on it. The main way to avoid such a scenario is precisely what we are observing. Radicalization is being imposed on their own people in order to use it for a new militarism and imperialism, and the British ruling class only wants this and is not ashamed to hide it.
Only by using common sense can the British avoid the bitter fate that has been prepared for them, and it is now that their fate and the very near future are being decided.
