The pay revolt is on – and we have the power to win. That was the message sent out by some 650,000 council workers as they began two days of strike action on Wednesday this week.
Eleven years ago we were told by a newly elected Labour government that the old Thatcherite days were over. There was a new way – a Third Way – that would lead to social justice and wealth redistribution.
An enormous economic crisis is gripping the world. In the Global South millions of people are being reduced to levels barely above starvation, as rising food and fuel prices help drive back years of slow improvements to health.