21ST CENTURY
Clerkenwell Green, London EC1
26th - 27th July 2014
MARXISM
politics, ideas, discussion, debate, culture, learning
A political festival of ideas, discussion, debate, learning, music, poetry and more
Austerity is working for the bankers and bureaucrats who run Britain! Now is the time for us to fight back! Austerity isn't working for workers. Adjusted for inflation, the real value of pay has fallen by 7% since the start of 2008 costing the average worker £7000. But super rich incomes have soared. Since the 1980s, top bosses have seen pay rises as high as 4,000%. The average chief executive now earns 145 times more than the average worker's wage. At the end of 2012, the real value of wages was more than £50 billion a year lower than in 2008. The ConDem government is using the crisis of their system to enforce permanent austerity, slash public services, break with the welfare state and roll back
every advance made by workers since 1945. At the same time we face a crisis of political representation with Miliband's attack on the working class character of the Labour Party and the failure to offer a real policy alternative to attacks on working class livings standards. But the fightback is growing. The People's Assembly is gathering wide support. Four thousand delegates from trade unions and community campaigns attended the assembly last June. Local groups are springing up in every town and city across the country. Unions are taking action for jobs and pay and to defend the NHS, education and public services.
21st Century Marxism 2014 [!1]
21st Century Marxism provides a forum for debate across the labour and progressive movement. Make sure you don’t miss out on a vibrant and exciting weekend!
What is 21st Century Marxism? It’s a vibrant weekend of politics, debates & culture organised by the Communist Party and the Marx Memorial Library and supported by the Morning Star,Young Communists.