A Working Class Alternative to Labour
A detailed proposal for a more egalitarian portioning of the pie, based not on benefits but on radically higher wages, plus a revival of the domestic manufacturing sector aided by a reform of banking to restructure inward investment, and a reform of education and training to enable the working classes to receive the education they need to take their rigthful and much needed place in the economy. The book argues for a move away from the lazy and short sighted habit of correcting the balance of payments through income from foreign investments which has spelt doom for British manufacturing for decades. This is a genuinely left wing proposal that does not however rely on benefits or taxation to achive the end of poverty it describes. It also spells out, as nowhere else, the left-wing argument for leaving the EU, and gives a detailed summary of the actual workings of that capitalist and anti-democratic organisation, an argument that is the real one for working class dislike of the anti-union anti-working class Europewide organisation devoted to the free movement of labour and capital that has always been the weapon of capital against the working classes since the 19th century. Written in 2013 and read by Jeremy Corbyn as he made his manifesto, this book is in the House of Commons Library.