We recently received this from a reader:

The people of the UK are being held to ransom by a handful of oil, supermarket, banking and utility companies that have a stranglehold on goods and services that are essential to our everyday existence. These companies each make billions of pounds profit which increases every year and all of them have raised their prices to consumers in the last year by up to 25%. The government has not moved to protect ordinary people from being charged more and more money in a one-sided contest where there is only one winner. It is immoral and unfair to make everyday goods and services a full-on business. Notwithstanding the global need for people to use less fuel and energy, borrow less money and eat better food.

Fightback! is a movement of ordinary people who have had enough of the hopelessness of watching the cost of everyday living rise to alarming levels. Fightback! will use the media to spread awareness of peoples discontent by boycotting products from these corporate giants until they publicly admit their greed. There's no point waiting for the government to act -- it has always played into the hands of the powerful lobby groups who work on behalf of the corporations. It collects more taxes and duty on more expensive goods and services so it won't do anything. 

 Our moral well being is being subverterted by the constant struggle to pay for the basics of survival. Families are focussing on making ends meet rather than on filling the ever widening moral vacuum that has been created by the consumer age. Where is the will or the enrgy to address the problem of the lack of moral authority and spiritual belonging of teenage boys for example, particularly from disadvantaged or poor backgrounds. The struggle for survival manifests itself in a contest to prove which teenager is strongest and too frequently, most violent.

Let us know your thoughts and suggestions - our children's future and the wellbeing of our society are at stake here - Fightback! Now.

Bruce Lister Welch