A Workers’ International Network meeting - June 2023 THE BRITISH STRIKE WAVE - YouTube The British working class is currently suffering the sharpest fall in living standards in living memory. Coming on top of more than a decade of ruthless cuts, the price of gas, electricity, staple foods and mortgages is soaring; food banks are collapsing; children are going hungry; and millions of … [Read more...]
THE BRITISH CATASTROPHE
A Workers’ International Network meeting - October 2022 British capitalism is in crisis. It has managed the lowest growth in Europe since the 2008 crash – worse than any other country except debt-plagued Greece. Its economy has already tipped into recession and is predicted to do worse over the next period than any OECD country except Russia. In the last five years, Britain’s gross … [Read more...]
The Twilight of the Monarchy
by Roger Silverman The royal family are often dismissed as a pantomime sideshow. This is a mistake; the role of the monarchy is crucial. Prime ministers are appointed and subject to arbitrary dismissal by the monarch – as seen for instance in the peremptory dismissal of Australia’s mildly left-reformist prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1973. The British prime minister is obliged to report once … [Read more...]
A Turning Point
The death of a monarch who had reigned for 70 years, and the early defenestration of a prime minister less than three years after winning a landslide election victory, both mark a significant turning point in British history. The following extract from a recent editorial in our journal ON THE BRINK (published by the Workers' International Network) is relevant... * * * * What we are witnessing … [Read more...]
Workers Arise! The Fightback has Begun!
by Roger Silverman We’re witnessing the return of nightmares that we’d always been told had been relegated to ancient history. There had been no pandemics since the flu of 1918; no major slump since the great depression in the 1930s; no threat of world war since 1945; no fear of nuclear annihilation since the 1962 Cuban crisis; no trace of inflation since the 1970s. Just look now: plague; … [Read more...]
LESSONS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE 1926
LESSONS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE 1926 - A Workers’ International Network meeting - JULY 2022 - YouTube Hear from John Byrne, Former GEC Manchester Openshaw shop steward and member of AUEW District Committee, and former Manchester city councillor. After more than a decade of harsh cuts, facing a soaring inflation rate of 11% and an immediate threat to the food and fuel needs … [Read more...]
Britain: Workers Fight Back – By Roger Silverman
June 2022 A new mood is sweeping Britain. The magnificent TUC march last week marked the re-entry of the working class back to the forefront of British history. A wave of protest has begun, with strikes are of railways, airport ground staff, communications workers, nurses, GPs, even barristers… Britain is ruled by a regime which drunkenly staggers from one hollow theatrical gesture to the … [Read more...]
IS BRITAIN SLIDING INTO DISASTER?
WIN Youtube discussion meeting, June 2022 BRITAIN: SLIDING INTO DISASTER? A Workers’ International Network meeting June 2022 - YouTube Against a grim international background of pandemic, war and looming recession, Britain today is facing its sharpest crisis in living memory: economic catastrophe; galloping inflation; a plunging pound; a looming trade war; and zero growth – the … [Read more...]