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Socialist Renewal - third series: 8
Redistribution:
A Silent Counter-Revolution
Michael Barratt Brown
“The last two decades have
seen a counter-revolutionary shift in power and wealth.”
In this discussion on the shifting balance between the power of capital
and labour in Britain, Michael Barratt Brown charts the redistribution of
wealth from the poor to the rich under New Labour.
Due to an unequal distribution of
wealth there arises an, “immense strengthening of the power of capital
and the weakening of the power of labour.”
And it is this process that Barratt Brown refers to in his title as the
‘counter-revolution’. He
examines both the local and global affects of this revolution. “Most people,” he explains, “would
accept…that the gap between the rich and poor countries world-wide has been
widening as the power of capital, and especially American capital, has grown.”
Michael Barrat Brown in this, his
latest Socialist Renewal pamphlet, also examines the Welfare State, New
Labour’s policy on redistribution, and the possible reversal of its
Counter-Revolution in order to favour the poor rather than the rich.
Price £2.00
ISBN: 978 0 85124 683 3
paperback
