There’s a lot of debate going on in the various YourParty groups and on social media about whether YourParty should be overtly socialist or not. This is a very good and very important discussion for all of us to engage in. What is socialism? What do we all mean by Continue Reading
austerity
From the welfare state to the workfare-warfare state
Starmer’s decisive shift rightwards has blown another gaping hole in Labour Party left’s pretentions to offer a socialist alternative within the party. Individually left parliamentarians express their outrage at cuts in fuel winter allowance and the prospect of a proposed £6 billion cuts to benefits to finance defence spending. Collectively, Continue Reading
What’s the problem with pensions?
The recent massive demonstrations against the Macron administration in France forcing through so-called pension reforms reveals the determined attempts of pro-capitalist governments in all the major economies to cut real wages when we are old and can no longer work. The Macron government has forced by decree a ‘reform’ that Continue Reading