'Clearly it's not possible to reform Parliament and the democratic process from within. We need only view the attempts that have been made by the same people who need 'reforming'. Our entrenched political class will never relinquish power voluntarily, there's too much at stake.

Increasingly, it looks like the only way forward is community by community given that we have neither trade unions or political parties around which to unite and with which to project our demands, at least at present. Not that trade unions aren't an important voice but they no longer occupy a central role in the majority of workers' lives.'

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