Tag: economic alternative
Publications
- Does the EU work for working class people?
- Budget Briefing 2016
- Briefing: Spending Review 2015
- What is aspiration?
- The mythology of business
- Briefing: The Tax Lock
- The First 100 Days
- Briefing: Manifesto summary - the smaller parties
- Briefing: Manifesto summary - The two main parties
- Briefing: Productivity
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for fairer tax?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for social security?
- 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
- Today’s package of measures from Bank of England fails on inequality
- Lloyds cuts 3,000 jobs: where’s the accountability?
- 4 reasons why negotiating new trade deals won’t be easy after Brexit
- Theresa May’s brand of inequality
- Brexit: The new class war?
- Queen’s Speech: response
- Putting inequality back on the centre-left agenda
- Brexit is not the answer to the new generation of free trade agreements
- Economic growth slows, and the problem is bigger than the EU Referendum
- The 2016 Rich List: Another sign that our economy is defunct
- Promoting economic democracy in the twenty-first century
- The Panama Papers reveal deep problems at the heart of our economy
- It’s time to halt the UK’s great public asset boot sale and build Britain’s first social wealth fund
- The increase to the minimum wage should be welcomed, but the fight against inequality is being lost
- Budget 2016: The reaction from our panel
- What can we expect from today’s budget?
- The crisis behind the headlines of corporate scandals
- What are the next battles for gender equality?
- Looking ahead: what Class did next
- Now a lost eleven years on pay, unprecedented for at least 150 years
- How our social security system holds back low-paid workers
- The economics of Google’s tax
- How can we help the wealthy part with their wealth?
- The rollercoaster path of government spending on flood defence
- Spending Review 2015: Still failing to invest in women’s security
- #COP21: what the climate talks could mean for UK workers
- Spending review 2015: Our Panel’s Reaction
- Spending review 2015: Your Guide
- The closure of Eaves charity is the tip of the iceberg in the crisis for women’s services
- Our study shows that economic recession leads to increased levels of suicide
- Selling off the government’s stake in housing associations is the endgame for social housing
- Selling off the Eurostar sets Britain apart from the rest of the world
- Why are the Tories so sanguine about adding £60 billion to public debt?
- Steelwork closures and the importance of class and place
- Economy growing at around half the pace of last year
- How can we measure national success? Five headline indicators to replace GDP
- Low-paid workers – worse off next year and even worse off in 2020
- The fiscal charter media fiasco
- Government throws more money at the housing market – to benefit home buyers
- Cutting vital income and stigmatising the low paid? The Conservatives are no workers’ party
- Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse centralises power and devolves blame
- Privatising Network Rail is a disastrous idea
- My take on what progressive housing policy could look like
- Against Aspiration
- Enabling Aspiration
- Young people’s debts have doubled in five years and are now highest of all age groups
- The importance of free museums in enriching our culture
- How the Conservatives are ‘strengthening’ child poverty measures in the UK
- The jobs figures: even if it’s a blip, it’s a worrying one
- A £12bn cut in welfare will put huge pressure on the NHS
- Five ways to deliver a good budget
- Budget 2015: Our panel’s reaction
- George Osborne’s ‘budget surplus’ rule is ill-defined and unenforceable
- With this budget, the Chancellor is taking us into unknown territory
- The fight for decent, affordable homes must not be abandoned
- An EU Perspective On Wage Inequality
- The Queen’s Speech: our panel’s reaction
- First 100 Days - Tackling Inequality
- First 100 Days - Eradicating Poverty
- First 100 Days - A plan for the economy
- Despite IFS criticism, the Tories will have the last laugh
- Labour and Conservatives: the manifestos
- Personal Tax Allowance: How an Increase Widens Inequality
- Labour will abolish the non-dom rule
- The worst thing about the Budget? The tax cuts
- Budget 2015: Our panellists give their reaction
- Storify: the top reactions to #Budget2015
- What to expect from the 2015 budget
- Housing will be one of the biggest issues facing the country at the General Election
- 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
Latest news
- Read all about the Class Election 2015 Series: What’s at stake?
- 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
