British Perspectives 2009
Contents
Crisis of world capitalism
Discussion document for Socialist Party congress 2009: The dominant issue facing the Socialist Party, the working class and the labour movement now and for the foreseeable future is the crisis of world capitalism, within which is the special crisis of British capitalism...
Paralysis of the banking system
The banks and financial system remain paralysed. 'Throw everything but the kitchen sink' at the problem is a British saying. Now, some Keynesian capitalist economists urge the 'kitchen sink' should...
Keynesianism ‘back in fashion’
Keynesianism is 'back in fashion'. A striking expression of this is how the strategists of capital, having previously denounced some policies as 'crazy' now embrace them...
International turmoil
The events in Greece graphically underline the international turmoil. In speeches and in the pages of the Socialist and Socialism Today, we warned that unless the alternative of a conscious movement to change society was organised,...
Britain exposed
Britain is particularly exposed to the economic storm which is unfolding. Iceland was a country effectively acting as a hedge fund. This country is not much different, as the FT commented:...
Collapse of British manufacturing
We have chartered in our publications the over years the astonishing collapse of British manufacturing - once the 'workshop of the world' - and its reliance on finance capital, initiated by Thatcher and willingly continued by Blair and Brown...
Housing crisis – effects on living standards
The housing sector - the bedrock of the so-called 'post-wealth effect' - is plunging and house prices could fall by 40%-50%...
Unions must fight back
We must energetically combat the attitude of the overwhelming majority of the trade union leaders who wish and seek compromise with the employers...
Youth fight back
We have a special responsibility towards the new generation. As pointed out before, they will face problems of a character and a scale that their counterparts of the last 60 years did not.
Racism and the far right
A vital factor in the link to youth work is the struggle against racism, fascism and particularly the rise of the BNP...
Women
The same applies to work amongst women. We already have a proud record, which has differentiated us from other groups in our intervention in this field...
Political prospects
The working class in the next period is likely to be checked on the industrial plane although, as we have explained, there will be battles, some of them spectacular, of a defensive character on the issue of jobs...
A new workers’ party
The Socialist Party, together with others on the left, must be prepared to stand in this vital election to counterpose to the capitalist parties the socialist alternative...
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