Recession
Stagflation crisis looms, and we must make the rich pay
It will be up to the rank and file to lead the resistance.
Workers Expected to Pay for Worst Economic Crisis since 2008
By Tim Nailsea BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC growth has almost stalled because of shortages of labour in parts of industry and of material inputs, due to disruptions in the supply chain, coupled with the effects of Brexit. GDP grew by 0.4% in August but is still 0.8% below where it was in February 2020, before the country […]
Fire and rehire signals a growing bosses’ offensive
Even more employers will use this tactic to attack terms and conditions.
Fight for workers’ control of the lockdown
The teachers' initiative is a model for workers to follow
Brexit talks hang in the balance
Deal or no deal, the working class loses.
Health vs the economy: what’s the best way out of the pandemic?
For a zero-covid strategy.
Bristol Trades Council to protest rising unemployment
Take this motion to your trade union or Labour branch.
Should workers accept cuts if Royal Mail is losing money?
Smokescreen of financial difficulties.
Socialist Campaign Group rally thousands – but give no direction
A report of the Socialist Campaign Groups rally.
Social unrest in post-lockdown India
Privatisation, unemployment and industrial unrest.
Down with Universal Credit: a living wage for all
Every person should be entitled to a living wage
From hero to zero: how the UK has shown gratitude to their most essential workers during the pandemic
NHS workers campaign for a pay rise.
Jobs for all!
Fight for work or full pay.
Unite and fight for jobs and education
Students must organise solidarity with workers struggles.
British Gas threaten to “fire and re-hire” 20,000 workers
GMB must press ahead with strike ballot.
Work or full pay!
Ending the furlough scheme threatens many thousands of jobs.
The end of the eviction ban threatens many thousands with homelessness
170,000 private tenants have been threatened with eviction.
Unite leaders recommend surrender
Say no to shoddy British Airways deal!
The global crisis, the working class and the left
The global working class is threatened by the pandemic and economic crisis.
Five ways the government’s emergency coronavirus legislation threatens the working class – and how to fight back
From strengthened police powers to forcing workers to pay for the crisis.
World economy facing recession
The latest figures are startling. The capitalist world economy is heading for a crisis. It has already broken out in the manufacturing sector
Recovery or not, workers have to fight
As the economy shows signs of growth, the bosses are determined to take the lion’s share George Osborne boasts that Britain’s economy is “turning a corner” and that “those in favour of a Plan B have lost the argument”. This bragging seems to be based on little beyond the latest Gross Domestic Product figures, […]
Keynesianism: workable reformist solution to the crisis of capitalism?
WITH A SECOND economic crisis looming on Europe’s horizons, there has been a turn in the public consciousness towards the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, famous for promoting growth as a solution to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Groups as varied as the TUC, the Peoples Charter, the Communist Party of Britain, and Counterfire […]
Economic outlook worsens as cuts deepen crisis
THE UK is facing a double dip recession, the first since 1975, according to recent economic data, writes Simon Hardy
The G20 didn’t stop the economic crisis: what comes next?
No matter what they try, nothing seems to work… The world leaders have gathered at the G20, and European leaders are having regular summits, but the economy is just getting worse. Peter Main explains why
World economy at tipping point into recession
CAPITALISM IS staring into the abyss of a new recession. The recent bail-outs of banks and countries assumed that the major economies would revive in the near future. They have not. Stagnation in the world’s two biggest economic areas, the US and the EU, with inflation rising in many countries, is throwing the stock markets into turbulence, […]
Economic crisis – what’s next?
The world economy has so far failed to emerge from the crisis with any degree of health, Richard Brenner looks at the problems at the heart of the global system
