Charlie Kimber

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

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.