COUNTER INFORMATION SERVICES have their 'Anti-Report' for 1981. In 1980 the 'Book of the Year' produced by Ink catalogued the events of the year, but failed to coherent overview meaning of these CIS's 'Anti-Report' avoids this mistake.
It contains concise counts of the summer riots, the fascists and racism, plight of the unemployed, an excellent account of the year in Ireland (widely rumoured to have been written by Socialist Challenge journalist Bell). But the core of the AntiReport is a mass of facts and analyses of the recession.
The different sections on the banks, the asset strippers, prices unemployment and big business - add up to an overall analysis dynamics of the crisis.
Every economic recession is simultaneously an attack on the working class. produced Links give of the events.
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of the Available Other Price £1.95 For inThe two faces of Tory Britain dustrial capital this means a 'discipline the workforce and boost profits', as the report puts it. The long ing list of plant closures and jobs and the attempts of the big firms to force down wages and increase productivity are The meaning of this for ordinary people, at a time when monetary policy has failed to is hammered home through a mass graphical pletely among CIS Anti Report 1981 The Bookshop every recession sections of capital do better than others. In Britain, bankcapital is particularly strong and is doing very nicely the sky-high interest As industry runs into liquidity problems, it is forced to borrow from the banks. high are interest rates that the major firms are having to borrow even more to service these debts. The result is that British industry is now commortgaged to the banks - which is one reason many the nationalisation of the banks is a crucial demand for socialists.
The 'Anti-Report' details the operations of the banks, how the 'base rate' for lending is used to bring in huge profits, how the banks fought the 'windfall profit' tax proposal and how they avoid paying billions more in taxation.
The 'Anti-Report" therefore more than just a 'report'. It is a weapon for There are some who don't fit on the scale WHAT BRITAIN LOOKS LIKE TO OTHER NUCLEAR POWERS!
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