Unity! Communists at the TUC
Wednesday 15 September 2010
Yes Mervyn, it’s a capitalist crisis Gordon Brown famously thought he had abolished capitalist ‘boom and bust’ but c apitalism has proved him wro n g. Every twitch of the stock market creates a panic, double dip recession threatens, bankers have drunk deeply at the well of public funding and are back to their unregulated ways. The capitalist world is in deep and continuing crisis—a crisis of finance and of production, each aspect feeding the other.
Just under a quarter of the British people voted for the Conservative-LibDem coalition. Thus the political basis for a ‘solution’ to the economic crisis at the expense of the working class is very narrow. Both Simon Hughes, and yesterday the former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy voiced disagreement with the strategy of cuts. The trade unions and the Labour movement can be at the centre of a huge movement of the British people to stop this government in its tracks. But the case for an alternative strategy must be made at every level, national and local. And this
must have a local and community dimension with mass action in every town and city. Among the contenders for the Labour leadership both Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, and of course Diane Abbott propose, with different emphases, some kind of alternative. It is Blair’s heir David Miliband and Andy Burnham who hark back to the policies of Labour’s first disastrous chancellor Philip Snowden in echoing most clearly the ruling class approach of “fiscal rectitude’ and cuts in benefits and public expenditure. continued overleaf
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