We need to be fully committed to this as in "over my dead body" committed, because change will not come because we say we want it.

We are coming to a time when our choices are either to be screwed by the public expenditure cuts and civil liberties violations which the pro capitalist political establihment offer us or we can fight back. The latter is the only option if we wish civilisation to triumph over barbarism.

I am horrified by all that is going on the world around. The people who have recently betrayed humanity at Copenhagen are letting their shadow run the show and these are not the types of people we need running our lives. We need people who are balanced and can see the value in the lives of each and every sentient being as well as the beautiful planet that we are fortunate enough to live on. We need people who put community before their own bank accounts.

The attack on our rights cannot be halted unless the socialist movement becomes much more transparent and democratic at every level. Sectarianism is slaughtering the chances of the world's population.

The attack on all forms of peoples rights in 21st century resembles the barbarism in the windowdressing of democracy.This is how capitalism is no more justifiable. Going once through the all hitherto history of mankind, I strongly advocate in favour of a vehement world peoples resistance against capitalism.

I have just received an e-mail from Alistair Darlings secretary asking for my postcode to see if I am one of his constituents ??? Do I need to be to complain about the governments use of tax payers money to bail out banks. This is the world we live in. Do they honestly think this will put an end to my complaints, no-way !!!

Thanks for doing this Mark et al. The world definitely needs to be won back some how.

I believe an essential building block is transparency. Whenever there's a new coup, or failed election, you'll notice that it's the radio station the generals rush to secure.

Information has become so distorted and managed of late, that even outrages like Abu Ghraib, rendition, tower 7, health insurance death panels (not the Palin ones), Geithner's colusion with Wall Street and dodgey expense claims fail to have any effect, get labelled theories or get shouted down.

You can point your finger at a number of contributing factors, from Murdoch's business acumen, Alistair Campbell's ability to unseat Greg Dyke, armies of PR consultants and the revolving door back-patting culture of the city and Washington. We are however willing to be dumbed down, be it by free newspapers, ridiculous TV, and an apathy brought about by our cosey lifestyles that the developing world is subsidising.

If it's not too corny, I'd like to quote Plato who had something to say way back that seems very relevant today: "This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are." "They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave"

The New Labour Government of Blair and now Brown have eroded the human rights of all working people as they have sought to safeguard the interests and profits of the bankers and monopolists, and largely as a result of its treachery and corruption it is about to hand over the working-class and a large section of the middle-class, bound and gagged to a Tory elected-dictatorship which will seek to place the entire burden of the financial and economic crisis onto the backs of the working masses, in order to try to save the banks and monopolies and the profit system. The working masses urgently need an international leadership based upon Marxist revolutionary principles.

When we the people change our approach to life and with it our ambitions and motivations. We will cease to fuel the development of the state that is increasingly destroying our humanity.

As an ardent Trade Unionist we must keep fighting to secure the repeal of all anti-trade union laws in the UK. Workers voices need to be heard more than ever now!

The working people of Britain and internationally, due to the depth of the world capitalist financial and economic crisis face the greatest threat to their jobs, living standards environment, human rights and to the peace and stability of the world in history and need more than ever a disciplined leadership based on Marxist socialist principles

The UK state appears to be the most invasive of all the Euro States. All Euro states have ID cards - just a little card with name address phone etc like a passport -who's got a problem with that, run-down in an accident, loss of memory ok know who to contact and who you are. But the ID card the UK are going to introduce is far over the top and plus all the info on people they want to collate, what you read on internet, who you communicate with etc etc - boggles the mind. Why are they so paranoid about the people they're supposed to be serving... Perhaps it's just that they may be feeling more than a little nervous about their own war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan etc or just a little nervous that their so-called democracy with the unelected monarchy is getting just a little bit shaky.

More aspects of the world's many problems must be resolved through fairness and equality, plus basic sense. The UK government needs to re-shape its overall image and cabinet to better represent the public, and see that they are unhappy with the state of their county and where it is apparently leading. A better sense of community is also needed, due to the fact that "everyone is out for themselves" through these hard times, whether that be in businesses, or just helping someone in need. Once that changes, we can build for a better future, truly benefiting the public. If things carry on the way they are, there is a grim future ahead. This is the crisis of our generation, and we must act to prevent it from spreading across further generations.We need to stop taking things for granted, after many "easy" years. It's time to actually do something.

How many more bonuses do the Banking Industries actually need? I live in a City, London, where Banking Bosses are STILL getting bonuses and where there is a dire shortage of midwives. Come off it.

"In our world the lie has become not just a moral category, but a pillar of the state."---Alexander Solzhenitsyn

As an agency of intervention in economic crisis as we find today, the state, insofar as it is democratic, should pay more attention to the threntening situation and rights of the ordinary people rather than few powerful groups and institutions. However, the state is moving in an opposite direction in many countries in the world. Therefore, I support the people's charter for democracy.

my whole life has been in a state of background confusion and fear, caused i feel by the'attack on our rights' by those in power and those that serve them. i hope this charter can hold enough intention and truth to be revered and carried through.

We all either look forward to all the possibilities with hope and intent or fold and give away our rights. I like the direct honest intelligence of this outlook, and wish you all love and luck.

All the 'truths' equate to lies in the current system. Real education is fundamental to the solutions. All babies are born as 'unprogrammed computors' then, subsequently, 'corrupted' in a global system founded on mass ignorance of the true purpose and potential of life and humanity.

Whether intentional or not, this system is self-sustaining, destructive and 'past its sell-by date'. So, mankind is presented with a challenging learning opportunity to reclaim its magnificence by working together for the common good.

Essentially, we can see that the entire confused system is funded by the banking structure, which generates an ever-increasing, and unrepayable, burden of debt. Consequently most people cannot have or develop the means to live creatively; rather economic slavery ensues and is perpetuated.

This system is at the root of all the imbalances. Remove the debt with a 'People's Bank', free from interest charges. Then 'pay' people to partake in a process of life-long learning and self-development -'Get paid for having Real fun' is a most attractive, and truly realisable concept.

This will initiate a new socio-economic structure based on the goods and services required to fulfill the innate human demand for fulfilling, creative endeavour. Simultaneously, it will enable the more fortunate to assist the less fortunate.

Thereafter, mankind can re-evolve in peace to our natural state of Truth, Beauty and Goodness. The supreme aim and purpose for living can be the collective creation of 'Paradise on Earth'. A process that guarantees global 'full and gainful employment'.

Why should we seek less than the best?!

I like many other people am absolutely exasperated  at the constant attack on our civil liberties currently being experienced  in this country. All carried out in the name of the "war on terrorism". We  are the most watched nation on earth, how can that be in the home of democracy and a so called free society. Why the need for an expensive and  ultimately futile ID Card scheme, based solely on the premise of having a  card to tell others (and mainly the state),  who you are!! We must raise awareness by whatever means possible and confront these  increasingly dictatorial and autocratic measures.

An article I published with Andrea Beckmann - 'Nous  accusons - Revisiting Foucault's comments on the role of the "specific  intellectual" in the context of increasing processes of Gleichschaltung in  Britain' (2005), Outlines: Critical Social Studies, Vol. 7, No.2,  December - explores some of the parallels that can be drawn between the  historical phenomenon of 'Gleichschaltung' in Nazi Germany and  contemporary politics in Britain. In contemporary Britain there can be no  mistake about the many ways in which the so-called New Labour government  uses language to manipulate and confuse its population. In its historical  context 'Gleichschaltung' describes the processes by which all  organisations and associations existing in German society were 'nazified'  and resisting 'bodies' were simply suppressed and later eliminated. Our  article argues that contemporary Britain is characterized by similar  processes that have so far resulted in opportunistic conformity being the  reigning norm of a societal life in which former notions of freedom, civil  rights and self-government have become entirely breached. Given this  devastating state the British state should now be openly challenged in the  name of basic democratic values. On the basis of a re-reading of  Foucault's understanding of the 'specific intellectual', this article  relates its core concerns to specific localised contexts and suggests that  we need a non-party space for the public expression of ethically governed  politics.

i feel particularly strongly about our right to a clean and healthy environment and resent the power that companies have to pollute it as well as the use of fluoride in our water. i feel we should have the right to move around wherever and however we want to without being checked on. i worry that the police have more and more power and feel more wary of the power that they have and the weapons that they use than of terrorist attack. the detaining of people on suspicion of terrorism is worrying. i feel angry that people do not have the right to form groups of (whatever number it is! 3/4??) in order to protest about new laws/amendments etc. i would like more transparency, accountability to and involvement of the majority when it comes to making decisions about how we live our lives. it helps to know that you are there working against the arrogance and elitism of the current rulers. keep up the good work :)

The most immediate of responses I have for this question is the right to protest that has been taken away from the people of Britain. I was arrested and beaten by police for protesting against our government in Parliament Square last year. It is now illegal to protest in a large area of London without prior permission. This sanitation of the people's right to voice their democratic voice is most worrying and does not bode well for the up-coming battles against capitalist exploitation of both ourselves and the environment we exist in. We must fight back.

The government has become such a joke that we just accept their autocratic decisions, feeling it's pointless to fight back. But we must.

Like many attracted to this proposition I have in the past been involved in various campaigns for human rights and social and environmental justice. I have witnessed the deterioration of all strands of democracy on a local (UK) level but also the imprisonment of the planet through the imposition of the unsustainable rise of global capitalism. These days as long as you can get through your training and studies and are willing to keep your head down you can earn your way until the capitalist machinery has no longer any need for your services. The country needs not only a written constitution but also at least an equitable form of voting. We no longer have any choice in our commercial consumer led lives. We have become modern day market place slaves whose enforced individualised lack of regard for each other means that we have fallen straight into the divide and rule methodology of our coporate masters. Do not expect mainstream political parties to change anything for the better as they are clearly an integral systemic part of the problem.

this campaign is fantastic and really needs more attention and hype. it really has the potential to change so much, and i think awtw is going about this in an inspiring way.

The corruption within the current near-totalitarian state of most "democracies" takes our rights from us and gives us no choice in what happens, only to choose the smartest idiot from a crowd of beaurocrats. The government does not understand what it is like to be a normal human being, and in separating themselves from us, will become as hated as every totalitarian government.

I fully endorse your statement and hereby include my name to your truly inspiring campaign

I agree entirely that we are fast losing our liberty. I live in the Netherlands, and things are only marginally better here. The EU's power is excessive, undemocratic and tyrannical. Bureaucracy and the state's obsession with "security" waste an awful amount of citizens' time and money. There are too many laws, and it is impossible to keep up with all of them. Illegal invasions abroad and suppression of rights at home are just 2 sides of the same coin.

rights are being curtailed at the same time we are being told that we are both spreading freedom and defending freedom. something doesn't quite add up...

I fully agree with your campaign appeal. My only word of caution is beware of written Constitutions in the hands of the corrupt politicians we have today. I can fully explain how the German Government has made its own Constitution worthless with the use of the Law on Legal Advice 13th December 1935 which is still used today. This law has denied me the right to a solcitor for the last 5 years.

I support the declaration below and I will circulate the e-mail as many times as possible. Yes the case for a society freed from the shackles of sale and profit will remain on agenda until such a society is achieved.