Strikes all over UK signal an urgent need for an alternative society. Govt/investor class react with hostile environment tactics on their own citizens, when the capital order is threatened, it imposes extreme measures to 'correct' the electorates 'class appropriate' behaviour.
Austerity as policy choice is 3 pronged; fiscal monetary and industrial, together they reinforce each other via budget cuts on public spending, usually during times of crisis, a desperate public becomes a useful exploitation tool for the investor classes. CoL, energy costs, etc.
As Brexit discourages EU imports, Tories gamble with internal domestic markets and exporting of British trade, hence the CPTPP BS returning a fraction of what UK had in EU. It's all performative, next step is total subjugation of UK workers forced to work til they drop dead.
Lower taxation for the 1% = monetary austerity, it takes a greater portion of money from workers; wage cuts, higher bills while ensuring the investor classes remain protected. Deregulation then gives a green light for investors to destroy people lives as they accumulate wealth.
Industrial austerity = industrial peace whereby hierarchies of production are not only encouraged but given free reign to brutalise the people who work for them by strangling their rights to protest for safer protections and right to strike. Do you see it now? #ToryScumOut
By decreasing workers wages, production costs go down, every action has an opposite reaction. Each aggression played out by this Govt whether its wage cuts, spending cuts sees a surplus of gains for the investor classes. This is economic terrorism and it thrives during crisis.
Tories need a docile and weak working class precisely so capital accumulation for the rich is insulated from protest/dissent etc. Compromised media channels are tools for propaganda. By strangling the public sector, workers will have no choice but to work in the private sector.
So what we have here are sustained attacks by the extreme right against all progressive pushes for societal equality and wage redistribution of GDP to workers. Pillars of capital accumulation are fortified to cement subjugation of working classes for generations. #Brexit
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