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Congress discussion: tories and wealth tax
by Paul Brown The Tories predictably do not want a wealth tax and they do not like inheritance tax either. The problem with these taxes as existing or proposed is that they draw no distinction between wealthy people like James…
Congress Motion: Develop an Industrial Strategy and demands for Workers Control
Submitted by Paul Cannon Workers Control: Germany has a version workers control where workers sit on the board of big firms, have voting rights and compose half of the supervisory boards of large companies, France also has a weaker version…
Parliamentary Democracy and the Working Class
The following is a contribution to our pre-Congress debate. It provides background to our ongoing discussions around working-class participation in the economy, industry and the State, and is submitted by the editorial board of Labour Affairs The UK is a…
Central Bank Independence
Following a discussion between members of the Workers Party and the Bevin Society, this article first appeared in the September edition of Labour Affairs magazine and is a valuable contribution to the discussion on our policy at Congress 2023. “Independence”…
Wealth Tax: Labour says No
by Nikola (Workers GB Writers Group) The UK is in the grip of a wealth inequality pandemic. As workers face, “the longest wage squeeze since Napoleonic times,” according to the TUC in August 2022, the Labour Party’s shadow chancellor Rachel…
