Priority actions
- make plans for a Citizens Convention on the Constitution.
A convention that reflects our diverse society and the
different nations within the UK would be tasked with
drawing this up with the help of experts in the field
- create a fairer electoral system and encourage political
participation and the formation of organisations to
campaign for their views without financial burdens
- abolish the anti-union laws, giving trade unions
independence from the state; restore the right to squat
empty properties; decriminalise drugs
- restore basic rights by scrapping the anti-terror laws, bring
back legal aid for all and make database and electronic
surveillance illegal.
Revolutionary solutions
- create Citizens Assemblies, building a network of popular
power that challenges the status quo and acts as a means of a transition to a real democracy. Citizens reach decisions and
put forward policies that they themselves co-design, based
on the common good, rather than the will and might of the
current power holders
- empower Parliament, which, with its enormously rich
history, could be made into a powerful body to reflect the
new power of society in place of the poodle without bite that
it has become. For example, a new kind of truly democratic
People’s Parliament could bring together citizens elected
by local and regional Assemblies where members can be
recalled and/or re-elected every year
- establish a co-operative, not-for-profit economic system,
which locally, nationally and internationally would lead
to the possibility of restoring the planet to health and of
transforming the social relations of human beings
- campaign for a new political framework, including the
abolition of the totally unelected House of Lords, the
monarchy and the secretive Privy Council, a reconstructed
police force and the scrapping of secret police activities by
MI5, MI6 and the Special Branch
- create conditions for the free movement of people based on
“no borders” principles.
