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What have the steel crisis, the Bedroom Tax... | 0:00:10 | 0:00:13 | |
the European Union... | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
..and secret bank accounts in Geneva and Panama got in common? | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
They all demonstrate that capitalism is a system of crisis, | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
big business power and financial corruption. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:28 | |
A glut threatens the future of a vital productive industry, | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
and when big business can't make a profit, | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
it chooses cutbacks, shutdowns and mass redundancies, | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
and it's us, society, that has to pick up the bill. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
Ramon, you were a steelworker before you went on to work for BT. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
What do you think could be done to save our steel industry today? | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
The government should nationalise it, | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
invest in it, subsidise it throughout the crisis, | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
keep it in public ownership to help build the infrastructure | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
that we need in Wales, which are new railway links, tidal power, | 0:00:59 | 0:01:04 | |
superfast broadband and all the rest. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
So, not sell it off to another multi-national corporation | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
-or hedge fund, then? -Definitely not. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
In the short term, we should protect our steel industry here | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
from the imports from Europe, | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
which are seven times greater than those from China. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
But the European Union would outlaw that, | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
just as it outlaws state subsidies. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
We shouldn't have to worry about the bureaucrats in Brussels. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
We bailed out the Royal Bank of Scotland with £45 billion | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
of public money, which is enough to see the steel industry here | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
through every glut for the next 500 years. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
The Panama Papers show that | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
214,000 off-the-shelf companies have been set up, | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
many of them to avoid paying taxes on their profits in Britain. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
Last year, it was revealed that 30,000 British citizens | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
held secret bank accounts in Geneva, in one bank alone, | 0:01:56 | 0:02:01 | |
most of them in order to dodge paying their taxes here. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
The super-rich robbed the Treasury of hundreds of billions of pounds, | 0:02:05 | 0:02:10 | |
while we're told that the Bedroom Tax, | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
cuts in disability and other welfare benefits, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
and yet more cuts in public services are necessary. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
At the last two General Elections, only the Communist Party | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
called for all overseas tax havens under British rule to be shut down. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:31 | |
Only the Communist Party stands for public ownership, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
an economic plan for Wales, and taxing the fat cats | 0:02:37 | 0:02:42 | |
and leaving the anti-democratic, big business EU. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
In line with EU fiscal policy, | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
the Tory government in London has chopped billions | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
from our National Assembly's block grant, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
yet the Welsh Tories blame Welsh Labour for the cuts. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru attack the Tories but not the EU. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:13 | |
The Lib Dems and Greens are also cheerleaders for the EU, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
while Ukip blame migrant workers and refugees. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
Only the Welsh Communists call for a federal Britain, | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
in which our National Assembly has the powers | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
and resources it needs to build a modern economy and a fair society, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:37 | |
a socialist society, based on tolerance and social justice. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
The Assembly's voting system meant that four years ago, | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
Labour won a regional seat in only one of the five Welsh regions. | 0:03:55 | 0:04:00 | |
This time, don't waste your second vote. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
If you want real socialists in our National Assembly, | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
use your second regional vote to vote Communist. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
For more information about the Welsh Communist Party | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
and its policies, e-mail us at: [email protected] | 0:04:26 | 0:04:32 | |
or write to the Welsh Communist Party, | 0:04:32 | 0:04:34 | |
PO Box 69, Pontypridd, CF37 9AB. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:41 |