What about the workers? PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 13 April 2006 00:00
Media and politicians talk about the middle-classes and the lower classes, but what about the workers? Most of us work for a living, and our work is the underlying source of all wealth. But without working-class solidarity, the small elite that controls the economy is able to constantly increase their profits at our expense.

Media and politicians often talk about the middle-classes, and the lower classes, even the chattering classes, the “criminal classes”, but what about the workers? Some 70 per cent of the population relies on wages or salary (not rent or profit) for a living. Most students will also have to sell their labour to pay off loans and survive. This work is the underlying source of all wealth, but without working-class unity, the small elite that controls the economy is able to constantly increase their profit at the expense of society and the environment.