Dear my 'many friends in many places'
I hope that the following might be of value in helping:
> Create A Fair, Safe and Peaceful World <
If not, I apologise for tiring your electrons and photons.
e-hugs
john �=0)
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From: "john courtneidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Co-operative Party: Aims and Objectives Exercise
Date: Wed, May 24, 2000, 12:23 pm
Dear Co-operators
Here is the contribution from:
The Campaign for Co-operative Socialism
In response to the Aims and Objectives exercise of The (UK) Co-operative
Party.
** We hope that co-operators and co-operative organisations will
endorse, in whole, or in part, the suggested Aim and Action Plan **
Our submission reads:
"We should like to suggest that we adopt the Aim of:
> Creating A Fair, Safe and Peaceful World.
To achieve this, we hope that our Party will endorse, promote and implement
the Seven Point Action Plan given at the end of this document.
The Action Plan is based on the following analysis.
If our, shared, co-operative goal is to create a fair, safe and peaceful
world, it is clear that we need to transform the economic system in which we
live, so that:
o people, together, are in control of their lives,
o where all work for the long-lived benefit of all: caring for the
long-lived benefit of the whole global ecology - and all its inhabitants.
Accordingly, to find the way forward, we need to have strategies for the
three core features of present-day, capitalist economics. Namely:
o ownership of workplaces and knowledge used for profit,
o ownership of land and natural resources, and their use for profit,
and,
o the practices of money-lending and credit-creation for profit.
To be able to deal with these three, core aspects, we must, first, return
money to its proper use - as a lubricant of human activity, created by, and
flowing through, nationally-owned, democratic, public service banking and
financial systems.
With them in place, we can, then, convert workplaces into appropriate
co-operative enterprises, such that each has respectful stewardship of land
and knowledge resources:
o ensuring that everyone receives a fair, guaranteed income,
and, that,
o proper stewardship of the planet is our central task.
This analysis leads to the following Seven Point Action Plan
:
> Co-operative Socialism - A Seven Point Action Plan
1) Convert competitive, market-based activities into workplace co-operatives
and remodel monopoly activities as stakeholder co-operatives: each,
demonstrably, operating according to the International Co-operative
Alliance's Seven Co-operative Principles,
(see points two and five for the funding mechanism to achieve this);
2) Redistribute the added-value wealth from the workplace co-operatives
through nationally-collected, corporate taxation, distributed into local,
democratically-controlled, Community Banks and, so, make money and credit
available for responsible wealth creation and community development,
(and the conversions referred to above);
3) Maximise necessary service provision (health, education, libraries,
transport and so on) on a free-at-the-point-of-use basis, through the
stakeholder co-operatives referred to in Point 1, retaining money as a
mechanism for access to discretionary purchases.
4) Introduce guaranteed income for all, within upper and lower brackets
and, so, do away with personal taxation;
5) Abolish money-lending and credit-creation for profit and, so, operate
banking as a public service
(see point two above);
6) Reintroduce international exchange controls as necessary;
7) Make capital grants (not loans) to developing countries.
We hope this action plan gives us, all, a good basis for a practical, moral,
sustainable and co-operative economics.
Sent by:
john courtneidge
(Member of Welwyn Hatfield Branch of the Enfield and St Albans
Co-operative
Party.
Networking:
The Campaign for Co-operative Socialism
www.cooperatve-socialism.org )
Home contact details:
13 North Road Hertford SG14 1LN (UK)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (+44) 01992 501854
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