Energy: make Labour demand public ownership
As Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, put it: “Public ownership and democratic control of our energy system provides the answer to a whole series of problems faced by working-class people. Public ownership and workers’ control make the perpetrators of the energy crisis pay for the damage they have done, while giving democratic power back to those who produce this wealth and those who need it.” The last two Labour Party conferences, in 2019 and 2021, voted overwhelmingly for public ownership of energy. In August the TUC came out for taking the energy firms (retail only...