One million council homes
It is time for Trotsky’s transitional programme list of demands and the key demand is the building of one million new council houses over four years. This demand was put forward by Owen Jones in The Independent recently. Building one million new council houses over four years answers the question which many workers ask about what a workers’ government would do. A council house building programme can be achieved under capitalism but raises a whole series of questions about how such a demand can be met. One answer is to use the £24 billion a year currently paid to private landlords via housing...