So where are the trade unions?

Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.

It is time we turned the struggle for decent wages into a struggle for socialism.

It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.

This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.

It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.

No changing of the guard can address the fundamental problem the British ruling class faces – a deepening crisis of overproduction that it is powerless to overcome.

Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are working hard to ‘save’ the economy... By stripping away rights and putting the City of London first.

Profiteering, taxation, money printing, social provision cuts, interest rate hikes ... are all combining to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the poor.

What is really at the root of the inexorable rise in prices?

Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.

Can you trust a government that says with one breath there isn't enough money for public services and with the next bails out the banks?