How New Labour Abandoned Workers
New Labour’s neoliberal method of modernisation wasn’t the only path the party could have taken at the end of the twentieth century — it chose to turn its back on the working class.
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Michael Calderbank works for Solidarity Consulting, a political consultancy working for trade unions and the not-for-profit sector. He is an active member of Tottenham CLP and a Contributing Editor at Socialist Register.
New Labour’s neoliberal method of modernisation wasn’t the only path the party could have taken at the end of the twentieth century — it chose to turn its back on the working class.
Today in Britain, 7.3 million people don’t have enough to eat. It is the great moral scandal of our time – but the government is determined to look the other way.
Rishi Sunak has announced plans to end the public sector pay freeze – but after years of stagnation, token measures won’t do: pay must rise above inflation.