Good riddance to Maggie Thatcher!

Vanguard May 2013 p. 7
Nick G.

The news of the death of Maggie Thatcher has been greeted with rejoicing in working class communities throughout Britain.  Street parties have been held by large crowds of celebrating people.

The capitalist press and bourgeois politicians have described this as “disrespectful”.

We agree.  Disrespect for those who attack the people, who make their lives a misery is powerful, positive and unifying.  Let there be more of it.

(Above: Members of the public celebrate Thatcher's death in Glasgow's George Square)

Thatcher was the embodiment of the ruthlessness, vindictiveness and arrogance of the ruling class.

With her US counterpart, the idiot President Ronald Reagan, she imposed neoliberalism on the world.  Every demand of finance capital for the unregulated plunder of the value created by working people was met.

We should remember the misery and heartache that she foisted on ordinary people across Great Britain and Argentina.

We should remember the communities devastated across Britain by her attack on miners and the Miners Union, their families and their communities.

We should remember the families and communities that were the victims of her support for Rupert Murdoch in his destruction of the Times Newspaper and his attack on the printing unions.

We should remember those lost and killed in the Falklands/Malvinas war, manufactured to get her re-elected in late 1982.

We should remember her cheering at the sinking of the Belgrano with 320 people killed.

We should remember her economic policies embraced not only by conservative politicians but also by Labor leaders like Hawke, Keating, Tony Blair and others.

Her legacy should always be recorded as one of division, destruction, misery and heartache.

Remember the victims of her rule and bid her good riddance.