Unity! Unemployment is a war on workers As the capitalist crisis deepens, so even official estimates of the number of workers to lose their jobs escalate. We are supposed to accept it as inevitable and unavoidable = even our own fault. Fighting it will just make it worse, they say. But fight it we must… and will. On the eve of the 30 November strike by two million public service workers, millionaire Chancellor Osborne upgraded predictions of public sector job losses to 750,000 – and an overall unemployment rate of 9%... 3 million workers.
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Morning Star daily paper of the left 80p from your newsagent
Capitalist Crisis There is no longer much talk of the private sector providing “new jobs”, and quite a lot of talk of a “double dip” recession. The fact is that this crisis is as much one for manufacturing industry and the private sector as it is for services and the public sector. It’s not a “credit crunch”, not a “downturn”, not a “double dip”. It’s a full blown, catastrophic capitalist financial and economic crisis. Figures for unemployment have been regularly ‘massaged down’ over the last few decades, and, as government always deliberately underestimates growth in joblessness, we can expect the reality to be far worse than they say.