Tag: economic alternative
Publications
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for the economy?
- The check-off system for union fees
- State intervention for wage-led development
- In the public interest
- Public services
- Renewing Public Ownership
- The importance of the labour movement in tackling inequality
- State and finance in financialised capitalism
- Without Social Europe there can be no Social Britain in our lifetime
- Think Big, Think Bold
- What is the 50p tax rate?
- Austerity Illusions and Debt Delusions
- Boom-time for legal loan sharks
- Duty to care
- In Land Revenue
- Financing the Social State
- The Case for Universalism
- Time to step in
- Why Inequality Matters
- Towards a new tax consensus
- Fiscal austerity
Blog
- Don’t believe the hype: average income has not returned to pre-crisis levels
- Reversing the rising poverty tide requires fundamental change
- Look after employment and the budget deficit will take care of itself
- The advantages of a new house building programme are enormous
- Collective bargaining can begin to rebalance our economy
- Making an everyday case for arts and culture
- Will the new stamp duty actually cost you more?
- Autumn Statement 2014: Seven thinkers share their views
- What to make of this year’s Autumn Statement?
- Time for more working-class women in Parliament
- The role of trade unions in challenging inequality
- Ed Balls tackles a major General Anti-Abuse Rule deficiency
- Whose recovery is it?
- In an era of public spending restraint, how can economic inequality be addressed?
- Thomas Piketty talks inequality and politics with Class
- Here’s why we should reject government proposals to sell student debt to universities
- Proposals to revoke bankers’ bonuses don’t go far enough
- Securing the future of our public services
- Labour needs to nationalise the railways
- Fighting austerity: why we need to talk about human rights
- Why we are striking
- The key to reducing inequality? Stronger trade unions
- What to make of the IPPR report
- It’s time to reverse the ascendance of finance capitalism
- Storify: Thomas Piketty in conversation with Lord Stewart Wood
- The significance of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- A Primer: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Why Class is hosting Thomas Piketty
- Most voters blame the banks for the crash
- VIDEO: The Great British Rip Off
- How to Change the Post-Crash Economy
- Fair pay: cracking down at the other end of the income ladder
- Why soaring wage inequality in the UK should worry everyone
- Today’s Budget and the crisis in Ukraine
- What can we expect from Budget 2014?
- Why the world needs a payrise
- Join me to debate The Great British Rip Off in Newcastle this evening
- Inequality – not just bad, it’s bad economics too
- Hopeful signs in the labour market, but things remain a long way from normal
- Trade unions must be at the heart of the debate on living standards
- The Living Wage Commission will examine the reality of low pay in Britain
- BRIEFING: the 50p tax rate
- GDP figures and three graphs which show a weak recovery in the UK
- BRIEFING: Bankers’ Bonuses
- Britain’s monetary system, like our sanitation system, is a public good
- What Labour needs to do in 2014
- The British left can be empowered by Obama’s speech on the economy
- Responses to the Autumn Statement
- Looking ahead to the Autumn Statement
- Our big challenge - Solidarity in the face of insecurity
- A Market Socialist Alternative to Neo-Liberal Austerity?
- 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
- The shackles are off Ed Miliband – but he can do more
- Momentum is moving in our direction - bold policies have popular support
- Instead of blaming ordinary people we should be explaining the reasons for falling living standards
- The market is broken
- Austerity - there can be no compromise with a failed idea
- Flawed political economics are behind the calls for fiscal conservatism
- The Spirit Level Film - the story so far
- Mervyn King’s rosy recovery prediction means little for a shattered nation
- The case for a Land Value Tax
- A budget speech of a chancellor who is trapped
- The scale of the Coalition government’s ambition
- Britain’s economic model is deeply flawed, but the government is doing nothing
- It’s time to remortgage - put rents to use on a new wave of council house building
- To achieve recovery we need a pro-active government committed to tackling inequality
- Social State: Who are the real scroungers?
- Social State: Austerity - An Exercise in Divide and Rule
- The Austerity Strategy Has Failed - March for A Future That Works
- 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?
- Does inequality matter?
- Unease as rail campaign support grows
- Radical change is needed to tackle the housing crisis
- Damning IMF report is a major blow to Osborne’s austerity drive
- Inequality, the crash and the crisis: Part 1 ‘The defining issue of our times’
- The neo-liberal project will not collapse on its own - we must replace it
- Now is the time for a new Tax Justice Consensus
- A new poll shows the consensus behind austerity is shattering
- There is no more pressing time to develop a coherent alternative to austerity
Latest news
- Class Conference 2014: The Film
- Class Conference 2014: The Photos
- Class Conference 2014: The Highlights
- Guide to conference sessions and debates
- New Class-YouGov poll released today shows that most people are not benefitting from the recovery
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
- Podcast now available - Achieving a Social State @ LSE
- Class – Budget spokespeople
- Class and LSE Politics blog host lively debate on the Social State
- CWU supports Class
- Frances O’Grady to speak at Class Parliamentary Launch
- Video of Class fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference
