The Socialist 3 March 2010

Fighting for jobs, services and conditions

PCS: All Out to Defend Jobs and Services

Stop council cuts

Invest in jobs, education & Training

Cut the working hours, not the jobs!

Portsmouth students and workers unite to fight cuts

Brighton students say: Save our nursery

EMA inadequacy impacts badly on students

Building action across Europe

Greece - millions take part in general strike

Spain: Thousands join mass demonstrations

The fairytale world of RBS

Nationalise the energy giants

Activists launch socialist challenge

Walsgrave hospital Coventry: Stop the parking charges rip-off

Fast news

Where is the BA cabin crew dispute going?

Smash the bosses' construction blacklist!

Leeds lecturers win concessions - but cuts remain to be fought

Workplace news: In brief

Unison general secretary election: Nominate Roger Bannister

Legal ruling exposes hypocrisy of Unison leadership

FBU general secretary speaks to The Socialist

Women will be at the fore in the fightback!

Global media monster News International condemned

The hounding of Tommy Sheridan

Savage cuts planned at the Beeb

Supporters should own Pompey, not developers

The worldwide thievery of big business

Previous issues, etc

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Nationalise the energy giants

THE ENERGY companies are screwing workers by refusing to slash bills, even though wholesale prices have fallen in the last year.

Over the last month alone they've pillaged an extra £100 out of every household budget.

These facts were reported as headlines on the TV news, but for most of us it was akin to hearing that bosses aren't there to look after workers. Tell us some real news!

Of course, Labour's energy minister Ed Miliband didn't declare that this profiteering was the final straw and the government was going to immediately take the entire sector back into public ownership. Instead, he urged the private companies to think about consumers' rights. The energy watchdog Ofgem echoed his whimpering appeal but proposed... nothing!

Anger at the energy and utility companies' behaviour is almost palpable. After banks they're the most hated by ordinary people.

Yet the weak and inept Labour ministers cannot even comprehend that the announcement of a proposal to renationalise British Gas, Scottish Power and the rest of these modern highwaymen would send their poll ratings into the stratosphere.