Capitalism’s dodgy claims
Capitalism claims to be by nature enterprising. The claim is repeated so often and is so rarely questioned that it has assumed the guise of an indisputable truth.
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Britain’s destiny
People are increasingly grappling with fundamental questions about our national destiny. What is happening to society? What kind of Britain is on offer and what ought it to be?
Twenty-five abnormal years
Normally we associate the workings of capitalism with attributes such as mass unemployment and economic downturns. But the twenty-five years following the end of the Second World War were markedly different from all other capitalist periods.
Working class governance
We have all the requirements to manage society. Revolutionary politics will harness them for the greater benefit of everyone within a growing economy.
Party of a new type
Our Party is unlike any other in Britain, a new type of political body wedded to a different destiny, one of workers taking control and refashioning the world.
Finance capital
The history of capital since the Industrial Revolution shows that increasingly it is sucked into the realm of financial speculation.
Debt, trade imbalance, fake economic miracle. Yes, it’s happened before. In Germany
Germany has been directly and indirectly responsible for the mess the eurozone now finds itself in. And this is an issue on which the country has some form, around 80 years ago...
War and capitalism
Of the many unacceptable costs of living with capitalism, probably the biggest is its periodic tendency to generate orgies of mutual slaughter that originate in the same way. Contradictions and economic conflicts between capitalist blocs become increasingly antagonistic then eventually erupt into global wars.
Society and the working class
Human life is utterly dependent on social organisation and activity. Yet addicts of the free market declare that there is no such thing as society.
Boom produces bust
The surge in capitalist markets from 1997 to 2007 was only achieved by deliberate, reckless stimulation of credit growth, enacted through a combination of abnormally low interest rates (relative to inflation) and exceedingly lax regulation of both credit and housing markets.
Collective organisation
How did previous working class gains materialise? Improvements and reforms came out of past struggle and campaigns by organised workers.
1926: The General Strike
At a time when some are calling for a General Strike we need to get clearer about what happened last time there was one in Britain…