The Alternative Economic Strategy: a time to go European

Abstract

The internationalisation of economic life imposes increasingly recognised constraints on labour movement activities, both at the level of industrial negotiations and in the scope of national economic policy. Part of the answer lies in extra-national initiatives, especially in Western Europe. But it would be wrong to see in European policy an escape from acute problems of policy at national level. This article examines present labour movement thinking on Britain's economic relations with Western Europe,