Brian Leishman MP says poverty rises whilst companies post record profits and urges colleagues to stand firm for labour values.
Tag: Economy
Depression and creative destruction – Michael Roberts
"Marx saw creative destruction as raising the rate of profitability as the small and weak were eaten up by the large and strong."
PCS calls for Tax Justice policy instead of cuts
"We need a fair, wide-ranging and redistributive tax policy.”
Gold: what’s behind the boom? – Michael Roberts
Economist Michael Roberts examines how gold has come to be traded at all time high prices.
Poverty is not inevitable, it is a political choice – Sarah Woolley, BFAWU
Ahead of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, Sarah Woolley sets out some core economic demands necessary to start to transform society for workers and their communities.
Public Services Belong in Public Hands – Grahame Morris MP
Privatisation has failed, leaving debt and poor services, while public ownership ensures accountability, reinvestment, and long-term resilience, argues Grahame Morris MP.
Can we recover hope in dark times?
"Labour will be punished if it fails to deliver on the promise of change it made to the electorate."
Starmer and Reeves’ approach is wrong – we can tackle inequality and poverty now!
"It should be the super-rich and the corporate profiteers who pay to improve our broken society, not the poor."
Reject the current economic system & pursue radical change – Jon Trickett
"Democratic socialism is the only way forward."
Socialist economic alternatives to the crises
"Now is not the time to accommodate our demands to a non-existent centre ground; now is the time to boldly proclaim a socialist agenda."