Labour’s big idea of ‘securonomics’ is 70 years out of date
Labour is tying itself to the US war machine and the economics of the new Cold War.
It will add to insecurity.
Economy
Hunt’s austerity Budget meets working class resistance
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 Monday 27 March – Hard up? Who is to blame? The economic consequences of the anti-union laws
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.
A high-risk gamble for these Tories, but a safer one for their project
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.
How bad will Trussonomics be?
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.
Two very different strikes
Socialists support the striking rail workers and any others who enter the fray.
At the same, the Business Investment strike must be broken for any realistic possibility of a sustained rise in living standards.