Class war and maritime disasters
This excellent – and enjoyable – article in the Economist sets out how the demographics of who got a place in the Titanic lifeboats and reveals how the rich trample over children, [Read more]
British Politics
Public meeting: Fighting the Tory attacks on workers’ rights
6.30pm Monday 16 April
Diskus Suite, Unite House, 128 Theobalds Road, London, WC1X 8TN
(Underground: Holborn)
Organised by the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions
Tories aid millionaires by intensifying the assault on millions
By Stephen MacAvoy
George Osborne’s latest budget launched another assault on living standards of millions of people whilst defending narrow interests and further entrenched the policies that are creating economic stagnation. Only a clear break with these policies will prevent a detrimental impact on the living standards of the majority and years of slow growth.
No more cuts Budget Day Protest
Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay
11.30am Wednesday 21 March
Downing Street, London
Save our NHS rally: 7 March
6-7.30pm Wednesday 7 March
Central Hall, Westminster London
Economic stagnation underlines error of Labour policy retreat
By James Wilkins
The latest economic figures showing that the British economy shrank in the last quarter of 2011 underlines the damage that Tory economic policy is causing – both to growth and living standards. A clear alternative to its ‘austerity’ policies is needed, but the Labour front bench’s recent further capitulation to the Tory economic framework weakens both the struggle for such an alternative and its own electoral position.