Should labour support the demand for a Basic Income? In response to the threat of automation, the rise of neoliberal policies and the weakening of trade unions parts of the Left have come to champion BI as a policy that can save the working class. But is this the best way to fight these threats? Looking at the labour movements’ own history shows that not only are these issues not new, the solution of Basic Income is hardly the best response.
In 1953, facing rising unemployment as the Korean War slowed to a halt, a debate emerged in the United […]
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