The Cost of Living
The crisis impacting working people isn’t a result of blind economic forces — it is the result of a class war waged from above.
A flare tower rises above the ConocoPhillips processing plant at the mouth of the River Tees on 7 February 2022 in Teesside, England. (Ian Forsyth / Getty Images)
The year 2022 will, in all likelihood, be the toughest one for working people since the immediate aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crash. After years of flatlining wages — the longest stagnation since Victorian times — workers face an all-out assault on their living standards: from heating homes to filling fridges, paying taxes to travelling for work, […]
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