Union leaders have hailed as a major victory the government's recent announcement of measures aimed at ending the two-tier workforce in privatised services.
Nothing better illustrates the utter cynicism at the heart of New Labour than the timing of its decision to launch an all-out assault on public sector pensions.
New Labour is presenting its attack on pensions as a necessary response to the ageing of the population. But in reality something else is at stake - the latest stage in ratcheting up the stakes in intercapitalist competition.
When is a fraud not a fraud? This is a question that millions of people will be asking themselves as increasing numbers of employers reduce, or default on, pensions that workers have been paying into for years.
Pensions--once the bedrock of the welfare state--are under attack as never before. Solomon Hughes explains why this is connected to the spread of global capital.
