Working class governance
We have all the requirements to manage society. Revolutionary politics will harness them for the greater benefit of everyone within a growing economy.
We have all the requirements to manage society. Revolutionary politics will harness them for the greater benefit of everyone within a growing economy.
Our Party is unlike any other in Britain, a new type of political body wedded to a different destiny, one of workers taking control and refashioning the world.
The history of capital since the Industrial Revolution shows that increasingly it is sucked into the realm of financial speculation.
Germany has been directly and indirectly responsible for the mess the eurozone now finds itself in. And this is an issue on which the country has some form, around 80 years ago...
Of the many unacceptable costs of living with capitalism, probably the biggest is its periodic tendency to generate orgies of mutual slaughter that originate in the same way. Contradictions and economic conflicts between capitalist blocs become increasingly antagonistic then eventually erupt into global wars.
Human life is utterly dependent on social organisation and activity. Yet addicts of the free market declare that there is no such thing as society.
The surge in capitalist markets from 1997 to 2007 was only achieved by deliberate, reckless stimulation of credit growth, enacted through a combination of abnormally low interest rates (relative to inflation) and exceedingly lax regulation of both credit and housing markets.
How did previous working class gains materialise? Improvements and reforms came out of past struggle and campaigns by organised workers.
At a time when some are calling for a General Strike we need to get clearer about what happened last time there was one in Britain…
Seventy years ago the world held its breath as Nazi troops came up to the gates of the Soviet Union’s capital city... It was not only the greatest battle in the Second World War but also the largest battle ever fought between two armies.
Over the past 32 years, Britain’s political leaders have lectured us with their mantra of disaster, “Let the markets decide!” Though the personnel in Downing Street have changed, the message has remained obsessively constant.
We only have one shot at life. Consigning workers to periods of prolonged idleness is a criminal waste of talent and an indictment of this flawed society that treats us as just flotsam and jetsam.