But to start to construct an alliance of the unions with the Labour left, and for the left within the unions to advance politically, requires focusing opposition to individual government policies around an
overall alternative economic strategy centred on cutting interest rates and raising progressive taxation, which will have to be won at next year's trade union conferences.
Arguing that more government cuts will lead to inequality and poverty,
his alternative economic strategy will be based on protecting the welfare state and closing the poverty gap.
Both New Labour and the socialism of
the alternative economic strategy were two modernist expressions that left a deracinated movement.
Critics will say, with some reason, that the electorate has heard it all before — in
the Alternative Economic Strategy (AES), which the Labour left devised to restore growth after the worldwide slump of the early 1970s.
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Only then does Corbyn have a chance to deliver his real message about the impact of changes to tax credits, the impact of austerity measures, the inequity of the housing market and how there is
an alternative economic strategy.»
In 2020 I want us to offer something very different and very much better, and that means
an alternative economic strategy.»
«For, in the absence of an alternative growth model, it still falls far short of the minimum required to animate
an alternative economic strategy.»
«It would give us the chance to put before the British people
an alternative economic strategy for this country,» he said.
«I got on really well with him socially and we had good times together, but you'll have to ask him why he did what he did, which is to be part of a stupid and rather sinister coup to rather undermine the leadership when Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell were the first political leaders for 40 years attempting to put forward
an alternative economic strategy to neoliberalism, which has resulted in massive inequality within our nation.
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«It would give us the chance to put before the British people
an alternative economic strategy for this country.»