Economy and Industry
Class is developing new economic and industrial policies that promote growth instead of austerity and place fairness at the heart of economic strategy.
A number of projects are underway looking at active industrial policy and the role of the state, financial sector reform and regulation as well as a focus on developing a system of progressive taxation.
Blogs
- 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
- Blacklisting: the scandal continues
- To achieve recovery we need a pro-active government committed to tackling inequality
- The Austerity Strategy Has Failed - March for A Future That Works
- Turning employees into ‘owners’? The falsest promise yet
- 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?
- Unease as rail campaign support grows
- Our young people deserve a secure future
- Damning IMF report is a major blow to Osborne’s austerity drive
- It’s time to stop kicking people at the bottom
- 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
- How the economic crisis is being used to attack employment rights across Europe
- Now is the time for a new Tax Justice Consensus
- The austerity consensus has collapsed
- A new poll shows the consensus behind austerity is shattering
- There is no more pressing time to develop a coherent alternative to austerity
Events
- 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
Blog:
In place of fear: It’s time to tackle alarming health inequalities
Publication:
In Place of Fear
Blog:
Mervyn King’s rosy recovery prediction means little for a shattered nation
