Consultation: | Young Greens AGM 2020 |
---|---|
Agenda item: | B Motions of Policy and Organisation (Closed 18th July) |
Proposer: | Rosie Rawle (Oxfordshire) |
Status: | Published |
Submitted: | 07/19/2020, 00:52 |
B1: Fighting for a better future through coronavirus
Summary
Coronavirus has not only caused crises in our society, but it has revealed the deep flaws in the current neoliberal political and economic order. It is vital that we acknowledge and assert the structural problems in our society, and recognise our collective power at this critical point to win the radically egalitarian democracy that can act as the foundation for a better world. This motion seeks to reaffirm this core narrative that has been developed by the current Executive Committee through the coronavirus crisis, and insert these key messages into the Record of Young Greens Policy Statements.
Motion Text
Notes:
That society is facing combined crises of health, economy, and climate,
and that the present system of neoliberal political economy has failed to
deal with these crises
That neoliberalism, which emerged from historic defeats of labour and
social movement, is sustained by a broken and undemocratic political
system
That public sector austerity has already caused the death and misery of
hundreds of thousands, at the very least
Believes:
That confronting the crises in our society requires that we take a radical
step away from the existing political and economic order.
That the current crises have revealed with crystal clarity what has always
been true: that the work that keeps society going is not done by bosses or
landlords, but by working people.
That building collective power - by strengthening trade unions, renters’
unions, feminist collectives, community groups, and all manner of
organisations - is necessary to overcome this order.
Resolves:
To insert the following into the Record of Policy Statements:
Fighting for a better future through coronavirus
The state system that has dominated for more than 40 years, neoliberal
capitalism, has culminated in crises of economy and society in the context of
coronavirus.
Confronting the interlocking crises that our society faces - the climate crisis,
health crisis, global debt crisis, employment crisis - requires that we take a
radical step away from the existing political and economic order.
We must ensure that society’s next stage is a radically democratic and
egalitarian one, not a more sinister, more authoritarian capitalist compromise.
Building collective power - by strengthening trade unions, renters’ unions,
feminist collectives, community groups, and all manner of organisations - is
necessary to overcome this order.
We must use this collective power at this critical point to win the radically
egalitarian democracy that can act as the foundation for a better world. This
means, as a bare minimum:
A comprehensive worker-focused stimulus or rescue package
Winning a just transition for workers of all nations, through a Green New
Deal
Universal Basic Income and Universal Basic Services
Free, accessible lifelong education
An end to housing precarity, rent amnesties and controls and investments
in social housing
Democratic trade justice, supply chain justice and debt cancellation to
countries in the global south
Rolling back attacks on and empowering trade unions to truly protect
workers
Collectively agreeing a binding social contract and social rights grounded
in relative abundance and security, instead of relative poverty and
precarity
Building a democracy of mass participation and empowerment for all people
Supporters
- Matthew Hull (Camden Green Party)
- Tom Hazell (Oxfordshire Green Party)
- Ellen Parry (North Surrey)
- Robert Nixon (Oxfordshire Green Party)
Likes
- Wesley Walton
- George Morris
Comments