The paradox of the new Labour position on the economy is that, in the name of stability and prudence, a reckless new round of austerity is threatened, with all the misery and instability that will follow.
Labour is tying itself to the US war machine and the economics of the new Cold War.
It will add to insecurity.
The strike wave shows that there is not only an understanding that the government is responsible for the attack on living standards, but the working class is engaged in a counter-offensive of its own.
Online meeting to discuss the anti-union laws and their economic consequences.
A joint event by the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom and Socialist Economic Bulletin.
The Budget and subsequent measures are intended to be transformational; a major step on the road to thoroughly ‘Americanising’ the British economy with low taxes, low wages, privatisation, deregulation and union-busting that are already designed to boost the profit rate.
The economic project of the Truss government overall has no prospects at all of meeting its stated aim of increasing the trend rate of growth in the economy.
The sole important obstacle to severe further damage to living standards, public services and wider society that are central to the project is the resistance being mounted by many trade unions and their members.
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