| Owners of capital and their political representatives do not want the working class to have its own organizations, agenda and aims to defend its rights up to and including a political and economic alternative that serves its well-being and the general interests of the economy and society. One way to stop the working class from having its own agenda is to interfere with its right to organize as an effective defence collective and opposition, and to criminalize its actions in defence of its rights. Without organization, the working class cannot have its own agenda and aims. Workers would still defend their rights but it would be at the level of reacting to stimuli and protecting themselves from predators as best they can through an instinctive "fight or flight." In contrast to this primeval defence, humans have the ability to gain an understanding of their concrete conditions through acts of conscious participation in the world, and to analyze and deepen that understanding to resolve with greater effectiveness the problems they face, defend themselves and move their societies forward. In the modern world, the working class and youth are faced with the necessity of organizing themselves as an effective Workers' Opposition to defend their rights. This means concretely building workers' defence collectives in all workplaces and more broadly in cities, towns and regions to defend workers' rights. Also, this means concretely building the political front of the working class, the mass communist party in all workplaces, cities, towns and regions. Understanding how to do this comes from acts of conscious participation in organizing and defending the rights of all. If the working class and youth do not engage in conscious acts of organizing into defence collectives and the mass communist party and defending their rights, then no understanding of how to do it will ever arise in their brains. To organize working class defence collectives and the mass communist party means that individual members are faced with the task of participating in developing an agenda, common aims, methods of organizing and strategy and tactics set by themselves, and the individual responsibility to carry out the decisions of the collective. Owners of capital and their agents target the brains of the working class and youth to stop them from gaining any understanding of how to organize and resist. To do this, they use the organs of the state machine to interfere directly in workers' organizations such as labour boards, courts and legislation limiting what workers' collectives can and cannot do and even criminalizing their defence organizations and resistance. Secondly, their mass media and agents denounce organizing and the development of common working class aims as being counterproductive and leading to just another form of oppression by "union bosses" and communist leaders. This propaganda is to keep workers and youth ignorant of their ability to organize and resist through acts of conscious participation and by doing so increase their understanding of how to organize and resist effectively with an independent agenda and aims for a human-centred alternative. The working class and youth face problems both as individuals and within their collectives. Even individual problems are connected with other individuals and the whole, as modern society is collective in its essence. This is so because of the socialized nature of the modern economy where people are born to society and have rights by virtue of being human. Collectives that engage in actions with analysis to defend the rights of their members and the rights of all are the most effective defence in modern society. Uniting in a collective immediately raises questions of methods of organizing. The understanding of how to organize is found in acts of conscious participation. Owners of capital and their political representatives, agents and spokespeople in the media want to interfere with this conscious participation of workers and youth in organizing, defending their rights and building their mass communist party. This is the root reason behind the Harper dictatorship's interference in collective bargaining between workers' collectives and their employers and the state hostility generally towards workers organizing themselves into a mass communist party. This is the main reason also why the mass media place so much emphasis on not organizing and praising those who have no agenda or aims as this dissuades workers and youth from gaining understanding of how to organize and diverts them from the necessity of having an independent agenda and aims. These days the mass media are promoting unorganized "fight or flight" as the way to combat inequality in society, and when this generates the inevitable chaos then the police are set upon the demonstrators. The propaganda not to organize and not have an independent agenda and aims is directed primarily at the working class but also at the youth and most vulnerable. The harsh stimuli from the economic crisis and ending of the social contract are everywhere to be felt from workers being laid off, public services privatized, social programs slashed, collective agreements gutted, pensions degraded, state interference in workers' organizing and bargaining, and homelessness and other social problems that are becoming worse instead of being resolved. Aimless and unorganized "fight or flight" is promoted as the way to respond to the harsh stimuli, anything but acts of conscious participation of workers and youth in organizing themselves within defence collectives and a mass communist party that analyze their concrete conditions, engage in actions with analysis and adopt their own agenda of resistance and social responsibility. The way forward for workers and youth in resisting the harsh stimuli of the owners of capital and their attacks is not aimless and unorganized "fight or flight" but acts of conscious participation in organizing themselves in defence collectives and the mass communist party and engaging in actions with analysis. The strategy and tactics of how to organize and resist attacks on the people's rights arise from acts of conscious participation in organizing and actions with analysis. Thinking serves actions and drives them forward to greater heights through analysis and further acts of conscious participation in organizing and resistance. Without acts of conscious participation in organizing defence committees and building of the mass communist party, no understanding of how to organize will ever arise. Without acts of conscious participation in resistance, no understanding of how to resist effectively enters the brains of workers and youth. Without acts of conscious participation in the working class movement to defend its rights and build its political front, no understanding of the independent aims and agenda of that movement will materialize as workers and youth will be constantly diverted by the aims and agenda of the owners of capital and their agents. When workers and youth do not have their own independent organizations, outlook, aims and agenda, the owners of capital and their political representatives and agents can easily sabotage, undermine and smash their resistance and defence of their rights. Acts of conscious participation in organizing and resisting are key to defending the rights of all and opening a path forward to a human-centred alternative. |