The Socialist 9 December 2009 Bail out our jobs, not greedy bankers Corus steel closure: 'Bail out our jobs, not greedy bankers' Youth Fight for Jobs campaigners speak out on Corus closure Socialist nationalisation - the only way to save manufacturing jobs and end the bank bonus scandal Teesside steel: No trust in big business 'solutions' Climate change summit: Coming up short in Copenhagen Fight the political witch-hunt in Unison Youth Fight for Jobs organises demo in Barking New Labour gift wraps Tyne and Wear Metro Stoke Axiom workers escalate the action Twinings workers fight job losses Management bullying? Surely not... Uniting to stop cuts at Sussex Starting Socialist Students at a Coventry sixth form Northampton protest against student loan delays Solidarity with striking South African miners Scotland: The national question and the general election English Defence League show themselves up Christmas 2009 donation appeal A present that can last all year - a subscription to The Socialist |
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Home | The Socialist 9 December 2009 | Join the Socialist Party Fast newsPoverty reportTalk is cheap, especially if you happen to be the PM, Gordon Brown. For all the Labour government's spin on tackling poverty, it has actually been rising since 2004 according to an authoritative study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The report shows that poverty, unemployment and property repossessions all started to rise during the first half of the decade. Some 13.4 million people live in low income households - defined as households earning less than 60% of the national average, the same level as in 2000. And the number of very poor households earning less than 40% of the average is at its highest level for 25 years, at 5.7 million. Two million children lived in low income, working households - the highest figure since the Foundation started collecting records. The report's author, Peter Kenway, points to the impact of 30 years of long-term unemployment and chronic levels of low pay as contributing to widespread poverty. Fight redundanciesSocialists were out in Coventry on 5 December campaigning against the closure of the Ericsson Research and Development facility at Ansty, which will mean the loss of at least 700 jobs. Coventry has already seen a complete decimation of its manufacturing jobs with the closure of Massey Fergusons and Peugeot, to name just two major employers in the city. In the last few weeks hundreds of ordinary people have signed the petition which demands "government action to defend the jobs of these skilled manufacturing workers and to provide a future for our youth." Socialist Party councillor Rob Windsor, who represents the St Michael's ward of the city, was one of those collecting signatures: "It's simple really, the government should step in and nationalise Ericsson, bringing it under public ownership - why is that the bankers with their obscene bonuses get bailed out but when workers are losing their jobs New Labour doesn't want to know. How about a bail out for ordinary people, not the bankers?" In this issue
Corus closure
Socialist Party editorial
War and occupation Global Warming
Socialist Party news and analysis
Youth fight for jobs
Socialist Party workplace news
Socialist Students
Socialist Party feature International socialist news and analysis
Anti-racism
Socialist Party appeal
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