British Perspectives 2022
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British Perspectives 2022
National Committee statement on British Perspectives, 15 January 2022: Our 2022 national congress will be taking place two years after the start of the global pandemic. In every country the pandemic has thrown all aspects of society into flux.
Inflation
British perspectives 2022 continued: Inflation: The underlying problems of British capitalism will continue and intensify in 2022. Most immediate, as in other countries, is the question of inflation, and the dilemma that tackling it by hiking interest rates and other measures could trigger a new recession.
Rising tide of struggle
The capitalist class is right to fear a rising tide of working-class struggle. As the Financial Times worried in another editorial (5.1.22), “After 40 years in which capital has had the whip hand over labour is workers’ power on the rise?”
Tory splits
Whatever movements erupt in 2022 they will face a deeply divided weak Tory government. Back when Johnson won the 2019 election we predicted, against the prevailing mood, that he would prove to be weak.
Sir Starmer’s Labour
For Britain’s capitalist class, looking on at the car crash of the Tory Party, there is one ray of light. Their fear that a Corbyn-led government might have taken serious measures in defence of the working class has been replaced with confidence that the opposition can now be relied on to act in their interests.
The consequences of the Ukraine conflict for Britain
While the invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s regime has been watched in horror by working-class people in Britain as in other countries, Johnson has led the global charge by capitalist politicians to cynically use these events to try and consolidate his position.
Major social explosions in the coming months
All of this is leading the serious capitalist commentators to fear that Britain is going to see major social explosions in the coming months. ‘Is Britain heading for the summer of discontent?’, ‘are we on the cusp of 1970s strike chaos?’, ‘workers’ power on the rise’ are just a few of the recent headlines.
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