The Programme of the British Workers' Party is designed to be of limited duration. The leaders have no intention, once the aims announced in it have been achieved, of establishing fresh ones, merely in order to increase, artificially, the discontent of the masses and so ensure the continued existence of the Party.
1. We demand the union of all British in a Greater Britain on the basis of the right of national self-determination.
2. We demand equality of rights for the British people in its dealings with other nations.
3. Only members of the nation may be citizens of the State. Only those of British blood, whatever be their creed, may be members of the nation. Accordingly, no Jew may be a member of the nation.
4. Non-citizens may live in Britain only as guests and must be subject to laws for aliens.
5. The right to vote on the State's government and legislation shall be enjoyed by the citizens of the State alone. We demand therefore that all official appointments, of whatever kind, whether in the British State, in the states or in the smaller localities, shall be held by none but citizens.
We oppose the corrupting parliamentary custom of filling posts merely in accordance with party considerations, and without reference to character or abilities.
6. We demand that the State shall make it its primary duty to provide a livelihood for its citizens. If it should prove impossible to feed the entire population, foreign nationals (non-citizens) must be deported from Britain.
7 All British immigration must be prevented. We demand that all non-British who entered Britain after 1945 shall be required to leave Britain forthwith.
8. All citizens shall have equal rights and duties.
9. It must be the first duty of every citizen to perform physical or mental work. The activities of the individual must not clash with the general interest, but must proceed within the framework of the community and be for the general good.
We demand therefore:
10. The abolition of incomes unearned by work.
The breaking of the slavery of interest
11. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
12. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
13. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
14. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
15. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municiple orders.
16. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. *
17. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race.
18. We demand that Roman Law, which serves a materialistic world order, be replaced by a new totally British common law.
19. The State must consider a thorough reconstruction of our national system of education (with the aim of opening up to every able and hard-working British the possibility of higher education and of thus obtaining advancement). The curricula of all educational establishments must be brought into line with the requirements of practical life. The aim of the school must be to give the pupil, beginning with the first sign of intelligence, a grasp of the nation of the State (through the study of civic affairs). We demand the education of gifted children of poor parents, whatever their class or occupation, at the expense of the State.
20. The State must ensure that the nation's health standards are raised by protecting mothers and infants, by prohibiting child labor, by promoting physical strength through legislation providing for compulsory gymnastics and sports, and by the extensive support of clubs engaged in the physical training of youth.
21. We demand the abolition of the mercenary army and the foundation of a people's army.
22. We demand legal warfare on deliberate political mendacity and its dissemination in the press. To facilitate the creation of a British national press we demand:
(a) that all editors of, and contributors to newspapers appearing in the English language must be members of the nation;
(b) that no non-British newspapers may appear without the express permission of the State. They must not be printed in the English language;
(c) that non-British shall be prohibited by law from participating financially in or influencing British newspapers, and that the penalty for contravening such a law shall be the suppression of any such newspaper, and the immediate deportation of the non-British involved.
The publishing of papers which are not conducive to the national welfare must be forbidden. We demand the legal prosecution of all those tendencies in art and literature which corrupt our national life, and the suppression of cultural events which violate this demand.
23. We demand freedom for all religious denominations in the State, provided they do not threaten its existence not offend the moral feelings of the British race.
24. To put the whole of this programme into effect, we demand the creation of a strong central state power for the Country; the unconditional authority of the political central Parliament over the entire Country and its organizations; and the formation of Corporations based on estate and occupation for the purpose of carrying out the general legislation passed by the British in the various British states.
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