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1 February 2012
Bankers bonus scandal - Fight this profit-mad system
The recent 'Hesteria' has been revealing. The Tories, majority funded by the City, went on about 'fairness' and bankers' bonuses but failed to challenge RBS boss Hester's £1m bung
14 December 2011
Everyone's struggling to keep the show on the road this Christmas, aren't they? Well children of the 1% don't have to worry at all about what Father Christmas is bringing. Parents who frequent Selfridges...
30 November 2011
Ian Hislop's BBC documentary 'When Bankers Were Good' starts by quoting ex-New Labour minister Peter Mandelson's line "I'm intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich", writes Ian Pattison.
23 November 2011
Mansfield - build houses, create jobs
2,000 young people in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire can't find work. Over 9,000 people in Mansfield are on the council housing waiting list. So why have building workers been thrown on the dole?
9 November 2011
Bonus bonanza: RBS, the bank that became synonymous with greedy speculative bankers (Fred 'the shred' Goodwin), huge corporate losses and publicly funded bailouts, has once again rewarded its top investment bankers with a £500 million pay and bonus pot...
2 November 2011
Liverpool council 'does its best' for the bankers
In rejecting the option to stand up and fight for Liverpool's hard-pressed working families, council leader Joe Anderson, at Liverpool council's Question Time public consultation on 27 October, claimed that he was doing his best for the people of the city, writes Tony Mulhearn.
On the National Shop Stewards Network lobby of TUC congress, 11 September 2011, photo Sujeeth
21 September 2011
We won't pay for the bankers' crisis!
Strike back on 30 November: Once again recklessness is bringing the banks into even further disrepute. UBS bank has 'lost' $2.3 billion due to the antics of 'unauthorised' trader Kweku Adoboli, writes Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool Socialist Party.
3 August 2011
Jail the bankers ... and nationalise the banks!
A multinational team of financial regulators, led by the US Department of Justice, is investigating allegations that some of the world's leading banks manipulated currency rates at the time of the credit crunch crisis in 2008...
UK Uncut protest against banks and to save the NHS in Cardiff, photo Socialist Party Wales
1 June 2011
Fight for a socialist alternative: 'Bankers are scum', they are 'parasites', they are 'gangsters'. It has become a truism; something so widely accepted that it is hardly even worth mentioning. And yet the hatred intensifies, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.
18 May 2011
Britain's economic position and the cuts
14) The hopes of a revival in the fortunes of the ConDem government - which is already under siege from opposition to the cuts - will be dissipated...
27 April 2011
Bristol 'Tesco riot' reveals anger
On Thursday night, 21 April, disturbances took place in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol when police clashed with anti-Tesco protesters and the local squatting community...
13 April 2011
Banking giants avoid punishment
When share prices in Barclays Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland rose by over 3% last week, the markets made it clear that the Banking Commission's interim report into the 2008 financial meltdown is, in fact, a paper tiger, writes Simon Carter.
23 March 2011
"The Tories, Lib Dems and Labour all support cuts, privatisation and the anti-union laws...
23 February 2011
As youth unemployment neared the one million mark and as the official inflation rate hit 4% (while many workers are effectively suffering pay cuts), champagne corks were popping in the City bars as investment bankers celebrated their share of Barclays Group's £3.4 billion bonus pot...
16 February 2011
IT'S BEEN confirmed: they are all in it together. David Cameron and his Conservative Party receive the majority of their funding, not just from big business, but London's 'square mile' financial centre...
Woody Guthrie
9 February 2011
Review: Devised/directed by David M Lutken and Nick Corley, writes Reviewed by Manny Thain.
London anti-cuts demonstration jointly called by the NSSN, RMT, NUT, FBU, PCS and other unions, photo Paul Mattsson
26 January 2011
Three decades of 'reform' and 'flexibility'
Since the election in 1979 of Margaret Thatcher's Tory government the people of this country have been subjected to a diatribe of rubbish under headlines such as 'reform' and 'flexibility', writes Craig Johnston, RMT union executive member.
26 January 2011
Bankers' "Free school" excludes poorer pupils
A PROPOSED 'free school'/academy in Wandsworth, south London, run by 25 bankers working for top City firms, has displayed blatant class discrimination by excluding children from poorer neighbourhoods...
Youth Fight for jobs campaigning in Cardiff against the bankers bailouts and bonuses, photo Cardiff YFJ
12 January 2011
Bankers get billions - We get cuts
FOR GREEDY, self-serving banking industry bosses, failure is rewarded by fat pay-offs and lavish pensions, writes Tony Mulhearn.
12 January 2011
Bankers get billions - We get cuts - Time to fight back!
FOR GREEDY, self-serving banking industry bosses, failure is rewarded by fat pay-offs and lavish pensions, writes tony Mulhearn, former 'Liverpool 47' councillor...
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