The price at the petrol pump is ticking up, at the supermarket tills too. And the papers are full of warnings for a new wave of price rises across the board coming our way.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the super-rich capitalist bosses will find any excuse to hike prices and squeeze our pay packets. It’s one way they continue to get even richer at our expense.
Every time there’s a crisis – in this instance Trump’s war on Iran and all its economic repercussions – the capitalist bosses try to make the working class pay. A fightback is needed.
The last inflation surge was met by the biggest wave of strikes in a generation: nurses, teachers, posties and more, refusing to put up with unacceptable real-terms pay cuts.
Now, two years into Starmer’s Labour government, it’s as if nothing has changed. If anything, the state of our public services has got even worse.
People are definitely angry, it was expressed in the beating given to Labour and the Tories in the elections on 7 May. The trade unions need to lead in getting that working-class anger organised, by acting on the Trades Union Congress policy to organise a demonstration against Labour austerity, and by bringing together a cross-union conference to discuss working-class political representation.
