The Fight against the Cost of Living Crisis begins with remembering our past was working class.
Harry Leslie Smith in the last years of his life taped a series of discussions where he spoke about how the 21st-century world was slipping into the darkness of austerity that would make it as hard for the ordinary person as the 1930s were for ordinary people back then. In 2023, it is essential that people fight back and try to stop neoliberalism and the 1% trying to make the hard scrabble past of my father and his working class generation our future. Sadly, we are losing this fight and now will have to fight all the more to keep from being crushed by the darkness of an out of control cost of living crisis during a time when the Welfare State was sold off to the entitled for a song.
“I am almost 100 years old, and my name is Harry Leslie Smith. This podcast is my last stand. My memories and my voice are my weapons against the political tides that want to return Britain and the world to the darkness of my youth. Then ordinary workers grubbed for their existence while the 1% of that day lived off the fat of our labour, like princes during the days of slavery. Today, is starting to resemble those ugly times when I was a boy growing up during the Great Depression, in Yorkshire. So, welcome to my last act of defiance against those who wish to rob you of your birth right- the Welfare State."
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