Britain: Prospects for the Seventies

Abstract

Political predictions are hazardous. Never more so than in the increasingly complex world of today. One forecast can however be made with little fear of refutation : the seventies will be a decade of political and economic instability and of stormy struggles. All the indications are that Britain faces in them the sharpening of all the tensions that have been mounting in the sixties. These reflect, above all, the attempt of the Wilson government, in an era of technological revolution, to bolster up the increasingly shaky world position of British monopoly capitalism at the expense of the economic and social advances demanded by manual and professional workers.