United Comrades

[Redboy]

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United Comrades is a rapidly growing site based mostly in the United Kingdom. Members have organized meetings in London and are hoping for future meetings too. We have a site with literature and soon audio tapes. We have a instant chat service, a message board with a large member community and we also have a Youtube channel named Ucbtube.

Main page:
http://www.unitedcomrades.com (http://www.unitedcomrades.com/)

Forums:
http://www.unitedcomrades.com/forums

Youtube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ucbtube

Instant chat:
http://www.unitedcomrades.com/chat.htm

Please register at the forum!

Thankyou.

[Vendetta]

Not just for UK members either, I've been there really since the beginning.

[Redboy]

Yeah it's for everyone. Not just UK. :)

[Sprinkles]

Our Party and Manifesto

We believe in achieving a peaceful, and purely democratic socialist state, where the wealth is in the hands of the workers to be distributed equally, and live in communal peaceful co-existence.

In order to achieve this we propose the following list of points:

* Abolition of private property, property in land, in order to provide free housing for all.
* Reclaim the acres upon acres of land that are owned by the wealthy aristocrats, and have them built up into hospitals, extra housing, and other public services that will improve the standard of living for the worker in the UK. All for free.
* Place heavy, progressive taxes on wealthy aristocrats in order to redistribute their unfairly sought wealth amongst the true generators of profit, the workers.
* Removal of all private sectors and nationalising all public services, to create a free of charge, profit free industry that seeks to provide for the people, and not seek profit from the people.
* Redistribution of land fairly amongst all citizens in order to have a truely classless society.
* All factories, companies and other places of work are to be nationalised and put in the hands of the workers, who will decide on work matters democratically amongst themselves.
* The introduction of communal regions, so that direct democracy is to be implemented successfully.


Your point of "Abolition of private property, property in land, in order to provide free housing for all" is in direct contradiction to your point of "Redistribution of land fairly amongst all citizens in order to have a truely classless society."
How can you redistribute land if private property is abolished? Communism implies collective ownership and not just a fairer redistribution for a larger amount of individuals. Unless it's a round-about way of saying just that.

"Place heavy, progressive taxes on wealthy aristocrats in order to redistribute their unfairly sought wealth amongst the true generators of profit, the workers."
Progressive taxation is not only reformist, it even assumes a continuation of inherited wealth and the state . The manifesto also sorely lacks to mention abolishing wage labour, which I would assume to be important for a communist manifesto.

On another note, if it's a forum what is the relevance of a manifesto?
Or is the startup for a party? If so, it could probably use some work.

Just some friendly critique, good luck nonetheless.

[Redboy]

Your point of "Abolition of private property, property in land, in order to provide free housing for all" is in direct contradiction to your point of "Redistribution of land fairly amongst all citizens in order to have a truely classless society."
How can you redistribute land if private property is abolished? Communism implies collective ownership and not just a fairer redistribution for a larger amount of individuals. Unless it's a round-about way of saying just that.

"Place heavy, progressive taxes on wealthy aristocrats in order to redistribute their unfairly sought wealth amongst the true generators of profit, the workers."
Progressive taxation is not only reformist, it even assumes a continuation of inherited wealth and the state . The manifesto also sorely lacks to mention abolishing wage labour, which I would assume to be important for a communist manifesto.

On another note, if it's a forum what is the relevance of a manifesto?
Or is the startup for a party? If so, it could probably use some work.

Just some friendly critique, good luck nonetheless.

I would pretty much ignore the manfiesto for now, it was quickly drawn up as we needed something for the homepage, we need to get round to improving it.

Nah, many people on the forums have conflicting views. We have a user who claims to be a communist yet is quite clearly a serbian nationalist, and are trying to turn him properly. We could use some members, as it seems we have little of them but the ones we have are active. So yes, to sum up, ignore the manifesto until we we finish it.

United Comrades is the site for all users, where the Political party "United Communists of Britain" uses as their site too. I'm not really into the UCB yet as much as I would like to be. The site is for everyone, but people from the UK can get more out of it. One of our admins, RSOA, is a American. :lol:

[Wanted Man]

Party manifesto? What kind of 'party' might that be?

[Redboy]

Party manifesto? What kind of 'party' might that be?

Explain a bit more?

[Malakangga]

sounds good

[Redboy]

sounds good

Hey, thanks for joining. We managed to get 100+ posts in just one day yesterday, something we have never done. :)

[Wanted Man]

Explain a bit more?
What? I'm just wondering what party we're talking about. Judging by the forum posts, it doesn't seem to be too serious. A 'United' communist party based on an internet forum, with 'important votes' about how many houses people can own? Why not join the existing movement and make yourselves useful in the struggle, instead of just playing pretend-politics on the web? No offence meant.

[Redboy]

What? I'm just wondering what party we're talking about. Judging by the forum posts, it doesn't seem to be too serious. A 'United' communist party based on an internet forum, with 'important votes' about how many houses people can own? Why not join the existing movement and make yourselves useful in the struggle, instead of just playing pretend-politics on the web? No offence meant.

None taken, as your wrong.

We had a meeting yesterday with 50% higher turnout and are attending Socialism 2008 on November 8th.

[Malakangga]

Hey, thanks for joining. We managed to get 100+ posts in just one day yesterday, something we have never done. :)


You are welcome,comrade.
Great work. Salute

[Wanted Man]

None taken, as your wrong.

We had a meeting yesterday with 50% higher turnout and are attending Socialism 2008 on November 8th.
Yeah, but what's the point of making a new 'party'?

[Redboy]

Yeah, but what's the point of making a new 'party'?

Fine, we'll close it :rolleyes:

It's staying, I know there are a lot of parties but this one of the few that actually does something in the UK. We are in fact attempting merges with other smaller parties, hence the term "united."

And why party in inverted? You deliberately trying to be rude?

[AAFCE]

Just joined

[Redboy]

Just joined

Welcome back :)

That's 10 registered in 11 days. :)

[wasteman]

this is a good community comrade

[Redboy]

75 new members in the past 3 days? Weird.

I removed some staff and the socialist party is going to be using UC now. But could do with some new staff members. :)

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Joined the Forum!

[Redboy]

Thanks. Good to have a knowledgeable member about. :)

[Redboy]

New forum layout, just hit 1,500 members and I sent out some emails to get it going again.