Taxing capital to pay for pensions
Robin Blackburn, author of Banking on Death, or, Investing in Life: The history and future of pensions , spoke at the AWL London forum on 17 February 2005. This is a transcript of his speech and the discussion. The pension issue is the one which has proved time and again that it can get really large numbers of working people fighting for their rights and for a better world. In the 1990s three European governments were overthrown as a result of strikes, demonstrations, and agitation relating to pensions. The most dramatic example was the November-December 1995 strike of French workers against...