ShareTweet By Len McCluskey As the closures show, our workforce is among the easiest to fire in Europe. We need a strategy that supports manufacturing The true picture of what is happening in the economy lies not in this week’s growth figures, but in the faces of the workers in Southampton and…
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ShareTweet By Alex Hern The coalition against austerity is overwhelming. It feels as though a rubicon has been somewhat crossed: it is now, undoubtedly, mainstream opinion that fiscal consolidation – austerity, to you or me – in the immediate aftermath of the greatest financial crisis in 80 years was a terrible idea….
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ShareTweet By Michael Burke It is unusual for ‘academic’ research published by the IMF to find its way into popular media. But this has happened to the latest World Economic Outlookwhere the IMF deals briefly with the issue of ‘multipliers’ that is, the economic impact of changes in government spending. The short…
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ShareTweet By The Real News 100 thousand workers march on the capital as unions warn austerity isn’t working and threaten a general strike for the first time since 1926
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ShareTweet The TUC is today (Thursday) publishing guidance for first-time marchers ahead of its A Future That Works march and rally in central London this Saturday (20 October). With over 250 coaches booked to come down to the capital – from Abergavenny to York – the TUC wants marchers to be prepared, so the…
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ShareTweet By Damon Silvers The time has come for workers in the UK and US to campaign in unison for economic alternatives This weekend, the British labour movement will be marching in London for a future that works. Two weeks later, in the United States millions of workers and their unions will…
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ShareTweet By Shiv Malik Figures from Trussell Trust, which operates food banks, show 110,000 were referred for help between April and September The number of the UK’s poor and destitute receiving emergency food aid has almost doubled in the past six months, the country’s largest organiser of food banks has reported. Figures…
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ShareTweet By Randeep Ramesh Councils are budgeting for large losses after coalition’s benefit changes mean 2 million low-income workers must pay tax Local authorities have conceded that up to half of people on low incomes will refuse to pay council tax after being caught in the net by benefit changes next year,…
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ShareTweet By Aditya Chakrabortty If the Tories get their way, within five years the UK will have a smaller public sector than any major developed nation This column is normally accompanied by a photo; an illustration that takes its cue from the text. But not today. The chart you see on this…
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ShareTweet By Constantine Giannaris As Angela Merkel makes a futile attempt to prop up Greece’s political class, the country is on the brink of self-destruction Angela Merkel and her new act – Deutsch-Griechische Freundschaft – played a gig in downtown Athens this week. Billed as the launch of Merkel’s new album “Ich…
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