An axe to the root. There is already existing opposition to child and sweated labour, a solidarity and internationalism that is the beginning of all socialist wisdom. Through No Sweat, a campaign launched by the London Socialist Alliance youth committee, we now seek to mobilise these concerns into an active campaign.
Capitalism is an unequal system that exploits and brutalises human beings for profit.
The car worker at Ford, who works to the rhythm of the production line for year after year and watches the corporation rake in billions of dollars in profit, then shut down the plant, sees that clearly. The child weaver, overworked and beaten for Western high street giants, knows it. Even people watching from afar, shocked at capitalism's most brutal excesses, can sense it. The job of Marxists is to analyse the roots of the exploitation and show how to get rid of it. Our starting point is the sense of injustice felt by the low paid worker, and the spirit of solidarity such as that felt by someone in the UK appalled by the horrors of child and sweatshop labour on the other side of the globe.