RED-YELLOW BOTH CLAIM THAT THE OTHER 'HAVE NO PLAN' - SAME NARRATIVE, DIFFERENT SIDE OF THE SAME COIN.

RED-YELLOW BOTH CLAIM THAT THE OTHER 'HAVE NO PLAN'
- SAME NARRATIVE, DIFFERENT SIDE OF THE SAME COIN.

Last night at a PNM meeting, the Political Leader of the PNM boldly claimed that the UNC has no crime plan; "They have no plan for nothing".

For the last 10 years of the PNM in office, the UNC continuously bombarded us with the same narrative about the PNM. Dey have no plan, they claimed.

While they both subscribe to the same narrative in criticising each other, they somehow hope that they can convince us that, despite the reality of our experiences when they occupy the offices of Government, they are not the same.

The UNC PL has recently declared that her party is for the workers. Now, the PNM PL is shouting about how much her party is for the workers, who the UNC is attacking and is representing them.

The reality is that neither red nor yellow represents the interests of the working class and the oppressed in this society.

They are both the gatekeepers with different colours, with claims of different policies, and false narratives of one being 'African' and the other 'Indian' or are the champions of people of either ethnicity; Both wings of the Gatekeepers of the interests and power of the parasitic oligarchy.

In 2016, I debunked the UNC propaganda that the PNM had no plan. In a blogpost, headlined The PNM Has a Plan, I explained that "Is this slogan - the PNM Has No Plan - correct?

Or, is it serving to mask the reality of the PNM's Plan and disarming the population in the face of the dangers of the direction of the PNM's reconvened move of anti-people, anti-democratic and anti-social agenda that was disrupted by the defeat of the Manning regime in 2010?

It would be dangerous to assume that anyone, particularly a collective of persons organised into a political party, would operate without a plan.

Everyone has an agenda! It is impossible for an individual to get up every day and do whatever they do - go to school, to work, etc- and they do that without an AIM, without a GOAL and without a PLAN on how to achieve their goals. Everyone has a plan.

Political parties represent INTERESTS. They represent economic and social forces within the society.

Political parties in the current electoral and governance system enter into competition to represent essentially the same interests as the PARTY-IN-POWER should they emerge victorious in the contest of elections. That interest is the interest of those within the society who exercise ECONOMIC POWER over resources of the society and the majority of the population and who also exercise POLITICAL POWER over the majority of the body politic.

The Party-in-Power is really in office and is required to act on behalf of the real holders of political power, those who exercise ownership and control over the economic and financial power.

So, just as these powerful interests have aims and objectives and they plan on how to achieve them, so too, those who seek to be their political representatives in Government also have their PLANS on how to advance the interests of the very powerful interests over the people.

But, there are other interests in the society - the interests of the majority of the body politic. The interests of those who are the victims of recession, or single parents or the poor or the landless or others - the INTERESTS of the workers, farmers, fishermen, intellectuals, women, youth and so on.

There is a constant major conflict of the interests of the minority who hold economic and political power and the interests of the majority whom the minority seek to deprive of such power".

This conflict is expressed in the conflict of PRIVATE RIGHT v PUBLIC RIGHT.

(See my blog - https://wherewegott.blogspot.com/.../the-pnm-has-plan... )

There are other specifics, but to say there is NO Plan or to not expose the real nature of the PNM's Plan will be most dangerous for the interests of the people and for the society.

At the same time, there is need to develop and pursue ANOTHER PLAN - a plan to advance SOCIAL RIGHT and the interests of the majority.

The Red and Yellow Do Have a Plan - to protect and advance the interests and power of the Minority.

We, the People, Need to have a Different Plan - to protect and advance the interests and power of the Majority -the Working Class and the Collectives of the People!