British Perspectives 2011
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British Perspectives
A Socialist Party 2011 Congress document: This document was first drafted in mid-January 2011 by the Socialist Party executive committee; subsequently some amendments were incorporated during a discussion at the party's congress on 26-28 February 2011...
World Economy
5) The chorus of capitalist commentators to the effect that capitalism is on a recovery road to promised 'sunny economic uplands' is bogus...
Europe
11) In Europe, the economic meltdown in Ireland threatens to spread to Portugal and even to Spain, which according to some capitalist economists is the fourth largest economy in Europe and "too big to save"...
Britain’s economic position and the cuts
14) The hopes of a revival in the fortunes of the ConDem government - which is already under siege from opposition to the cuts - will be dissipated...
Struggle necessary against the cuts
36) As earlier with the poll tax - because of the character of the period we are in of a drawn-out economic agony - for the working class above all the choice is between a conscious organised movement led by the trade unions and the labour movement generally but with a militant fighting policy...
Education, Students and Indications of ‘social war’
47) A similar battle is opening up in education - in the first instance in the university and college sector...
Immigration and the far right
57) Britain has throughout history been affected by waves of immigrants coming to these shores. The influxes in the last 200 years of Irish, Jews, Afro-Caribbeans, South Asians, Africans and, latterly,...
The NSSN, the anti-cuts struggle and the Trade Unions
63) This is one indication of the social war that is in its first stages in Britain. The first large front in this war will be on the issue of the cuts...
Liberal Democrats and the Coalition, Labour and the Greens
75) The government claims that it does not have a 'Plan B', an alternative policy in the event of its ruthless deflationary policy collapsing, as it will...
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