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Posted by: John Phoenix The ruling class wanted Labour in power to try to manage its crisis, knowing that it is better placed to wage war on workers at home and abroad. No one paying attention can have failed to notice how the steady undermining of the supposed ‘democratic freedoms’ enjoyed by workers in Britain – a process that has been underway for some considerable time – is now being rapidly accelerated. And that the preferred means for achieving this aim has been the installation of a supposedly ‘pro-worker’ LABOUR administration in Downing Street. In fact, the British imperialist ruling class is no stranger to the suppression of democratic rights. One has only to examine the history of the British empire to understand that ‘democracy’ was not a prominent feature of ...

Posted by: John Phoenix The Labour government proposes to try to close Britain’s fiscal deficit by a combination of raising taxes on the working class and middle class on the one hand, and cutting public services on the other.  What is going to prove very painful for the working  and middle class is expected to raise £40 billion.  The Labour government has, to date, ruled out levying a wealth tax on Britain’s billionaires. The richest 250 households in the UK, however, have a combined wealth of £748 billion, and according to an open letter to the “chancellor from economists, charities and ‘patriotic millionaires’” published in The Times of 24 October 2024, “Greenpeace has previously supported a temporary 2.5 per cent tax on all individual wealth abov...