Inflation

With dodgy deals looming, the rank and file must organise to seize control of the unions

Editorial June 2023, No. 404

Workers Power  ·  03 June 2023

Inflation rip-off destroys workers incomes while rich profit

THE LATEST inflation figure of 10.1% surprised many economists. It won’t have surprised many workers —except that it wasn’t higher. The Mirror reported on the day of the announcement, ‘Struggling households are now faced with shocking food prices, with cheese 49% more expensive than a year ago, eggs up 28%, sugar 33% and a white […]

Workers Power  ·  30 April 2023

Defend workers’ incomes against inflation

INFLATION HAS reached its highest level since the 1980s. The November rate for the UK was 10.67%. Between September 2021 and September 2022, food prices increased by 14.5 percent. At the same time annual wages rises in the private sector stood at 6.7% and 2.9% in the public sector. The purchasing power of wages has […]

Workers Power  ·  16 January 2023

Inflation: what it is and how to fight it

INFLATION IS at its highest level for over 40 years and the rate continues to climb. For workers under the age of 40, this is their first real taste of sustained rising prices. Prices began to rise back in the summer of 2021 but this accelerated in the first six months of 2022. Exacerbated by […]

KD Tait  ·  04 July 2022

How workers fought inflation in the 1970s

We don't have to accept the erosion of pay and hiking of profits.

Workers Power  ·  19 June 2022

Unite the resistance to the cost of living crisis

Workers face the biggest cost of living squeeze for a generation

Urte March  ·  20 March 2022

As inflation bites: make the bosses pay

Prices rise at record rates.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  09 February 2022

Here’s to 2022 – for a revolutionary new year

Editorial December-January 2021-22, No. 389

Workers Power  ·  31 December 2021

Fight inflation – for a sliding scale of wages!

For a 1% increase in wages for every 1% increase in prices.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  12 December 2021

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