AS WORLD leaders look for a way to repair a global economy deeply injured by the first wave of Coronavirus, we look this month at the struggle between the wealthy and the workers – and what’s been said about it.
“I can only say that it seems that governments are facing a declining economy: and not being bound by any great responsibility to help the workers they will go with the decline of the economy and cut down as much as they can. This is what I would expect and I would be very surprised if anything else happens.”
CLR James, Trinidadian socialist, 1901-1989, interview in SAGE journals, first published 1987
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