The case for Socialism (2009 version)
The case for socialism
Capitalism in crisis: The profound crisis that global capitalism entered in 2008 is resulting in increased hardship for the majority, in Britain and internationally...
The Socialist Party’s demands include:
We won't pay for their crisis: Nationalise all the banks on the basis of democratic public ownership - run by representatives of banking workers and trade unions, the wider working class, as well as the government...
Capitalists in crisis
While socialist ideas are beginning to resurge, the political representatives of capitalism have suffered an enormous ideological blow...
Marx was right
The current crisis is not just caused by the greed of the City financiers or even the domination of finance capitalism...
Keynes revisited?
The deregulated 'free market' associated with Thatcherism is discredited. For many workers this will mean turning towards socialist ideas. For the representatives of capitalism, however, it is a question...
A global crisis, and the particular crisis in Britain
This is a truly global crisis. Virtually no country has escaped its effects. Globally it is the poorest people in the poorest countries who are suffering the most. However, the OECD correctly predicted...
Young people
Half a million, one in five, young people were unemployed even before economic crisis hit. As it has developed they have been disproportionately affected, along with women and migrant workers...
Pensions
Capitalism expects workers to rely on private pensions; a living state pension is considered out of the question...
Public services
In New Labour Britain, privatisation rules. New Labour's sudden support for nationalisation of the banks will not prevent it continuing to try and sell off other public services, although in some cases...
Unemployment and the working week
As unemployment soars Britain will still have the longest working week in the European Union. New Labour has consistently fought for the right to opt out of EU laws limiting the working week to a maximum...
The socialist alternative
The nationalisations, part-nationalisations and state interventions being undertaken by the world's governments bear no resemblance to genuine socialist nationalisation...
Time for a new mass workers’ party
A particularly important factor is the absence of a mass political voice for the working class. Since 1997 the trade unions have given over £100 million of their members' money to New Labour. And what...
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