Workers' Liberty 21, May 1995

The return of the labour aristocracy

The recent Joseph Rowntree Foundation Inquiry into Income and Wealth shows widening gaps both between social classes and within social classes. At first sight, indeed, the figures suggest that the big divide in British society is not a Marxist class conflict, but one between a mass of poverty and a “privileged” layer, “privileged” only by having stable and moderately-paid jobs. Closer examination of the data reveals the class categories: capitalist class, middle class, working class, “underclass”. It also shows that differences within the working class have increased enormously. Those...

Iranian Socialists Propose Unity

Representatives of nine political and regional groups who attended a meeting of ‘Etehad Chap Kargari’ (Workers’ Left Unity) passed the following resolution on the 12 February 1995 in Germany: The crisis engulfing the Iranian communist movement with its specific characteristics within the framework of an international crisis, has halted the formation and organisation of a genuinely radical socialist alternative in Iran. The objective in forming Workers’ Left Unity (WLU) is to create the conditions that will help the formation and development of such a tendency and to pave the way for our joint...

A new approach to fighting cuts

A conference in Leeds on 13 May will launch a new approach to the fight against public service cuts. Trade union delegates, and observers from community groups and Labour Parties, have been invited to the conference by Newcastle and Strathclyde branches of the public-services union UNISON and by Tyne and Wear Fire Brigades Union. Their proposal is that instead of waiting until central government Budget decisions filter through into local cuts, and then fighting those local cuts piecemeal, we should first fight to change the Budget decisions. We should go for a one-day strike and demonstration...

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