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The article discusses the need for the British Labour Party of a more robust anti-austerity program as austerity is leading to a cost of living crisis and poverty. It added that the first challenge should be between the majority of the party who would confront the cuts and the Labour right who let the agenda be set by the Tories need to be overcome. It also argues that Labour leader Ed Miliband's focus on the cost of living crisis mobilise activists and supporters to deliver a victory in 2015.

The article looks at the economic measures of left-wing governments all over the world, which can be adopted by the British Labour Party to improve the economy and government services. The governments of Latin American countries like Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador raised taxes and investments to improve public service and welfare of their people. Labour can adopt these policies by proposing laws that improve pensions, crack down on tax avoidance, and ordering nationalised banks to cut bonuses.