Dear Editor,
Firstly, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to those in the Englerston constituency who voted for me and believed that I would work in their best interests. I would also like to thank my family, friends and comrades, locally and internationally, for their assistance and guidance throughout this entire process.
In spite of my very moderate support at the polls I have the political maturity to understand that mass movements begin with very tiny steps and can only triumph with sustained struggle.
Presently, we have a situation in The Bahamas whereby the political parties of the ruling class use everything in their arsenal to seduce the masses and workers into handing over power to them at their own expense.
This seduction was thoroughly apparent during this election season at "parties" that masqueraded as political rallies where there was hardly any constructive discussion of how we would concretely improve the living conditions and overall wellbeing of the masses. All the while, cries from the public for a national debate on the issues went ignored.
In addition, because of the conditioning of the media, tradition, and the lack of ongoing political education by a revolutionary political party, voting for ruling class political parties is currently recognized as the only method for achieving change.
However, the reality is that this election will not change the conditions of the people. The economic conditions will continue to deteriorate, with joblessness and the cost of living reflecting the ongoing exploitation of the human and material resources of the people of The Bahamas.
In light of all this, I recognize that my primary task now is to build the African People's Socialist Party-Bahamas, a section of the African Socialist International, to begin the process of educating the workers and masses to an understanding of their own class interests and organizing the workers to recognition of the necessity of struggling to replace the class in power with themselves as workers, the producers of all the wealth indigenous to The Bahamas.
Moreover, I am convinced that the Revolutionary National Democratic Program (RNDP) presented during my campaign is the best starting point for projecting the interests of the workers and the revolutionary national democratic sector of the population of The Bahamas.
That RNDP puts forth the following platform that is still relevant today, despite my hollow victory in this election:
1. Economic development & job creation
2. Community control of the police
3. Widening citizenship rights
4. Ending imperialist domination of The Bahamas.
The working and democratic forces of The Bahamas must come into our own independent organization to make a genuine contest for power in our own hands at the expense of the international corporations and the neocolonialist agents who continue to administer the country and economy for them at our expense.
Join with us to build the African People's Socialist Party-Bahamas. All power to the people.
- Alex Morley
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