Gordon
Brown boasts of building a 'stable'
economy and 'ending the Tory boom
and bust.' Tell that to the hundreds upon hundreds of ordinary people
queuing round the block outside Northern Rock to withdraw their life
savings! It seems the 'lucky chancellor' is to become an 'unlucky prime
minister', and its ordinary workers who'll feel the brunt of it.
As chancellor, Brown oversaw a period of
boom where the rich got richer, with the average pay rise for a FTSE-100
director for '06 - '07 reaching 30%! But for most of us it seemed as if
that boom was taking place in another world, with wages stagnating,
conditions worsening and bills being covered through credit each month.
Enormous anger has built up at the unequal
nature of society. A job - albeit often low paid and insecure - and the
availability of relatively cheap credit, have softened the blows that
have rained down on working-class people.
But now the chickens are coming home to
roost and the chaotic unregulated nature of global capitalism means that
images like those outside of Northern Rock could become more common.
The commentator Will Hutton stated in
the Observer: "No culture [of regulating business] exists in
degenerate Britain. We need a party which will speak for an interest
other than self-interested, amoral plutocrats. None exists."
The only sort of party that could put
anyone's interests above those of the fat cats and financiers would be a
party made up of and controlled by working class people. Join us in the
fight for such a party.
