Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths released the following statement today (March 8) in response to the Spring Budget of Chancellor Philip Hammond:
The Tory attack on low paid workers, benefit claimants and people with disabilities will continue for years to come unless we get rid of this government.
Most of the cuts planned by ex-Chancellor Osborne are going ahead as planned through freezing in-work benefits, rolling out Universal Credit and slashing disability payments. At the same time there are yet more tax cuts for business and extra public subsidies for capitalist free markets in housing, transport and technical innovation that have failed so miserably up to now. Instead of pumping £8bn more into the private housing sector and accelerating the forced sell-off of Housing Association properties, that money could build 140,000 new homes - almost four times more than Chancellor Hammond unveiled today.
Post-Brexit Britain is facing a fresh set of challenges that the left must be prepared for, says Robert Griffiths is general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain.
The ongoing revelations about the so-called Panama Papers reveal the venality, mendacity and parasitic nature of the Tories and the financial interests they represent.
High quality steel making is the foundation of a modern manufacturing economy and the whole industry in Britain must be returned to public ownership.
The fact that workers in south Wales have to wait with bated breath for a decision on their future livelihoods to be made nearly 10,000 miles away says everything about the dysfunctional and undemocratic nature of modern capitalism.
'The steel industry in Britain is being destroyed by privatisation, this Tory government and our membership of the European Union', Robert Griffiths told the Communist Party's political committee on Wednesday evening.
Copyright CP 2016