Charlie Kimber Explained

Charles "Charlie" Nicholas Kimber (born July 1957) is the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party of the United Kingdom from January 2011.^[1]

Career

Kimber has been politically active since the 1970s and went on his first protest march in 1975.^[2] He is the editor of Socialist Worker newspaper and has also written for International Socialism, the SWP's journal of socialist theory.^[3] He is a director of Sherborne Publications Limited,^[4] the company that publishes the Socialist Worker, having taken that position following the resignation of Martin Smith as a director on 24 May 2013.

Writing

Kimber has published a number of political works, mostly published by the Socialist Workers Party. In May 2008, during the government of Gordon Brown and the 2007–2008 financial crisis, he produced Pay Cuts, Recession and Resistance, which dealt, among other things, with a cost of living crisis for working people and asked "Do wage rises cause inflation?" Kimber argued that the idea of a wage-price spiral was false as workers' pay rises were a secondary and lagging effect of inflation, not its cause. The cause of inflation, he asserted, was employers trying to maintain their profits in times of falling sales. Other topics covered in the publication include the gap between rich and poor and the need for socialist organisation in order to achieve an economy planned in everyone's interests.^[5]

Selected publications

• The Struggle for Workers Power. Socialist Workers Party, 1998.
• Arbeidersmacht en Socialisme. Amsterdam: Internationale Socialisten, 1998.
• Wales, Class Struggle and Socialism. London: Bookmarks Publications, 1999.
• Pensions, Profits and Resistance. Socialist Workers Party, 2005.
• Pay Cuts, Recession and Resistance. Socialist Workers Party, London, 2008. (With Simon Basketter and Yuri Prasad)
• Immigration: The myths spread to divide us. Socialist Workers Party, 2010.
• Arguments for Revolution: The case for the Socialist Workers Party. Socialist Workers Party, 2011. (With Joseph Choonara)
• Jeremy Corbyn Labour and the Fight for Socialism. Socialist Workers Party, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Peter Manson "Another one bites the dust", Weekly Worker, No.847, 6 January 2011
2. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/why-i-was-on-march-ive-never-protested-like-this-im-a-private-whinger-2254168.html Why I was on march: 'I've never protested like this. I'm a private whinger'
3. Kimber, Charlie (2009) In the balance: the class struggle in Britain International Socialism, Issue 122. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
4. http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/director/7665900/charles-kimber MR CHARLES NICHOLAS KIMBER
5. Kimber, Charlie. (2008) Pay Cuts, Recession and Resistance. London: Socialist Workers Party, pp. 8-9. (With Simon Basketter and Yuri Prasad) ISBN 9781905192397