The paper which follows opens the journal's Strategy Section with a defence of the labour movement's Alternative Economic Strategy (AES). It argues that, taken as a whole, and despite its weaknesses, the AES is based both on sophisticated economics and on a political understanding of economic policy as class struggle, aiming to impose greater working class political control on each of the forms of capital, and thereby posing as political problems aspects of capital's circuits which are normally taken for granted. We hope in future issues to print articles which take issue with this argument, which propose different strategies, or which elaborate further the argument of this paper.
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