Victorian and Dickensian Britain

The previous chapter touched on the greatness of the British Empire and the vast benefits it delivered to a significant portion of the world's population. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said to be true of its benefits been felt by our own people in these islands.

Economically, Britain became the workshop of the world, importing raw materials in from all corners of the Empire and turning them out for export as manufactured goods of a quality unrivalled even today. Today of course, the mills that wove our textiles are shut. The shipyards that launched a huge merchant and military fleet are vacant and deserted. Our steel mills that rolled the finest metal available for buildings and constructions around the world are finished. I could go on, but the litany of Britain's industrial bankruptcy is all too obvious. Now we are "Cool Britannia" and that horrid phrase means we are a tourist destination and at the best support small service industries. Everything else, shoddy as it may be is imported and we fall further and further into the grip of International Zionist usury.

In the nineteen century in Britain however, as the wealth flowed in, it was distributed on a terribly one sided footing. The old aristocracy, already growing corrupt got its slice, the bankers got their share and the people who were to become the global capitalists of today took the lion's share. The ordinary British working man and women got little apart from long hours and short wages.

Children of seven worked in the mines and scaled soot filled chimneys. Education was rudimentary and harsh. The whole Victorian ethos was pushed on by that narrow minded puritanical work ethic which is driven, not by love of country or race but by profit, profit, profit - at anybody's expense.

So the British working people had to fight back, and the only way they knew was through Unions. They had to start the basic organisation of the masses to have the right to withdraw their labour unless they got a fair deal.

A few great men such as Charles Dickens and other philanthropists spoke out about the wretched conditions of the British workers. Dickens killed himself through over work, speaking and writing for a better deal. His novel "Hard Times" is a stinging indictment against plutocratic Capitalism. But these men were few and the rapacious and greedy were many.

It took a long hard struggle to organise labour in this country. To get basic educational and health care was hard. To get the working day reduced to a reasonable time so that the ordinary man could have a little spare time was very difficult. In the end though a mass labour and Trades Union movement grew and after decades of struggle won many rights for the working people.

That labour and Trades Union movement is now completely sold out. Today in Britain workers at all levels have little or no rights, and are not facing British plutocratic employers but much worse - faceless global corporations to whom a worker is in every way a number.

The building of a new National Labour Front, as outlined in the White Nationalist Party's policy programme is of great importance. The Tories and New Labour have destroyed workers rights and representation - they must be restored through the proposed NLF within the framework of a future corporate state.