Workers ourselves, taking expert advice, should have a decisive voice in identifying and running what is essential, and how to work as safely and effectively as possible in the emergency.
Even before the Covid-19 crisis, the possibility of the UK striking a deal with the EU in time looked tenuous. The Tory government has been threatening to walk away and prepare for a No Deal Brexit if the essentials of a deal are not in place by June!
Every Labour leadership candidate has something to recommend them, from the viewpoint of a class-struggle, internationalist left, but overall it is a poor choice.
Boris Johnson has talked of ending austerity, bolstering public services and appealing to the working class, but on all the evidence so far that is a threadbare velvet glove on an iron hand.
More than half of the 1,900 ultra-luxury apartments built in London in 2017 failed to sell, so overcrowded London has dozens of “posh ghost towers”. Meanwhile, some 320,000 people are homeless across Britain (on the streets or in temporary accommodation).
Labour Campaigns Together is a website and an e-list which supporters can sign up to. We hope it can be developed into a more active on-the-ground campaign.
Lambeth and Southwark Labour activists are grappling with how to build the party in communities where Labour councils are the administrators of austerity and gentrification.
The Tories’ calculation seems to be that the three million in work who were due to be moved to Universal Credit are electorally weighty in a way that the more marginalised million already on it are not. Yet the older “legacy” benefits have also been squeezed by many cuts.
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