An Active Government
Government plays a pivotal role in creating sustainable economic growth. This project is developing policies on how the state can be involved in encouraging innovation and job creation through targeted investment.
The economic crisis has also brought to the fore the urgent need for improved and extended regulation of the banking sector and financial institutions. This project is working with a range of academics and experts to produce policy suggestions for curtailing damaging activities of the banking sector and ensuring our financial sector is on the side of working people.
Publications
- Tackling the housing crisis
- Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- In Land Revenue
- Time to step in
Blogs
- Five ways to deal with a full blown Conservative Government
- To tackle the Great British Rip Off, we must end zero-hours contracts
- Our big challenge - Solidarity in the face of insecurity
- There are some things too important to be left to the market
- There is a feasible and popular alternative to austerity
- Households are being excluded from the benefits of growth
- Momentum is moving in our direction - bold policies have popular support
- The market is broken
- The Socialist Way
- The government needs to take the growth of payday lenders more seriously
- The Spending Review: nasty politics not real economics
- Flawed political economics are behind the calls for fiscal conservatism
- The case for a Land Value Tax
- A budget speech of a chancellor who is trapped
- Blacklisting: the scandal continues
- It’s time to remortgage - put rents to use on a new wave of council house building
- Culture is a class issue
- To achieve recovery we need a pro-active government committed to tackling inequality
- Time to step in to build the homes we need
- The chicanery of this week’s economics
- This is a crisis for most – but it’s still boom time for those at the top
- It’s easy to dismiss predistribution as a gimmick but what does it actually mean?
- The housing crisis will not be solved by selling the homes of low-income families
- Damning IMF report is a major blow to Osborne’s austerity drive
- It’s time to stop kicking people at the bottom
Events
- Class Conference 2013: Leading the Debate
- London - The Great British Rip-Off: How can we tackle the cost of living crisis?
- TUC Congress 2013: Reconstruction after the crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Labour Party Conference 2013: Austerity and the Alternative
- A think tank for working people: Class Yorkshire Launch
- A think tank for working people: Class North West Launch
- GMB Congress 2013: Why is Class such an important GMB investment?
- Class Parliamentary Launch - Why Inequality Matters
News and press releases
- Policy experts say housing must dominate Labour’s election manifesto
- We hear your views on the living standards crisis in advance of our regional tour of events
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
- Class launches new policy library resource for trade unions and researchers
- Class holds North West launch & commits to giving working people in the UK a strong political voice
- Health inequalities widen as rising mortality and falling life expectancy buck long-term trends
- New CLASS publication challenges politicians to put inequality back on the agenda
- Shadow Housing Minister Jack Dromey MP responds to Policy Exchange call for sale of social housing
- Audio recordings from Class economics seminar now available
