Labour: the manifesto, the movement, and us
What Labour's 2019 manifesto promises is, in itself, moderate. But the rich and owners of capital did not get where they are by being generous and easy. They got there by being the most ruthless in pursuit of greed, exploitation, trampling down and squeezing the working class. After decades of almost everything their own way, they are in no mood to concede. They will fight, aggressively and effectively. The resistance of capital to a Labour government with this manifesto, and the risk of capitulation or retreat, can be overcome only by a strong and militant labour movement. Despite its gaps on...