Growth not Austerity
With the UK economy now back in recession and the tide turning against austerity across Europe, this project will analyse why austerity has not only failed to solve the economic crisis and create growth but has instead exacerbated decline.
This project will outline policies that promote job creation and economic growth.
Publications
- Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Austerity Illusions and Debt Delusions
- Financing the Social State
- Fiscal austerity
- Rising inequality and financial crises
Blogs
- Five ways to deal with a full blown Conservative Government
- 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
- Austerity - there can be no compromise with a failed idea
- The Socialist Way
- The Spending Review: nasty politics not real economics
- 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
- 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
- The chicanery of this week’s economics
- This is a crisis for most – but it’s still boom time for those at the top
- Our young people deserve a secure future
- 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’
Events
- Class Conference 2013: Leading the Debate
- TUC Congress 2014: Challenging Power, Raising Living Standards
- 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?
- Scottish Labour Party Conference 2013: Resisting cuts in welfare - the case for universalism
- Class Parliamentary Launch - Why Inequality Matters
- Labour Party Conference 2012: Equality - The Real Alternative
- TUC Congress 2012: Why Inequality Matters
- Class Launch Seminar: Towards 2015 - Strategies for Jobs and Growth
News and press releases
- We hear your views on the living standards crisis in advance of our regional tour of events
- 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
- 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
- Class – Budget spokespeople
- Frances O’Grady to speak at Class Parliamentary Launch
- Video of Class fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference
- Shadow Housing Minister Jack Dromey MP responds to Policy Exchange call for sale of social housing
- Audio recordings from Class economics seminar now available
- British voters back Hollande’s anti-austerity agenda
