The assault on living standards
The government and its allies have launched a huge attack on living standards, accompanied by a major propaganda offensive that wages are rising sharply.
austerity
The Tories are attempting something even Thatcher and austerity could not achieve
The government of an advanced industrialised country may choose to engineer a sharp rise in unemployment in an attempt to restore profitability, or it may choose to try to cut wages. But both stratagems entail high risk. Combining the two is exceptionally high risk. Under the cloak of the public health crisis which their own policies have helped to create, the current government is attempting such a strategy.
The drive to make the working classes pay for the crisis
The British ruling class is gearing up for an enormous offensive, compelled by the logic of capitalism itself.
The working class and its allies need to be prepared for the coming onslaught.
Record low growth and worse to come – Boris Johnson is not ‘deficit-financing growth’
The claim from the Tory government and its army of media supporters that the latest Budget has ended austerity is completely false. It is very important for the left and the labour movement as a whole that they grasp the character of the new attacks to come, so that they can resist them.
Johnson is relying on the LibDems to deliver Brexit and austerity
The party on which Johnson is relying to deliver Brexit and austerity is not the Tories. It is the LibDems.
Why Brexit is not the most important issue in British politics – Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Labour fighting austerity is
For months Blairites in the Labour Party, in alliance with the Lib-Dems, using the Guardian as their central publicity machine, have been spectacularly unsuccessfully attempting to persuade the British electorate that the most important issue in British politics is not defence of the population’s living standards but Brexit.