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3 February 2010
Weak growth - the best that capitalism can offer
After the longest and deepest recession since 1945, which saw the economy shrink by 6% in under two years, a battered UK finally limped into 'growth' territory last week, writes Robin Clapp.
Cartoon by Suz
1 January 2010
Stop slaughter of jobs and services
Pre-budget report: The pre-budget report marked the beginning of the 2010 general election campaign. Never before has a government tried to win an election by offering such a relentless diet of pain for the majority of the population, writes Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary.
2 December 2009
Liverpool council's budget 'black hole': Establishment parties only offer swingeing cuts
ON 3 August 2009, the Liverpool Echo reported that Liverpool city council faces a budget 'black hole' of over £90 million in the next five years, writes Tony Aitman, Tony Mulhearn and Dave Walsh.
23 September 2009
COVENTRY SOCIALIST Party councillor Dave Nellist has warned that council budget cuts for Coventry's leading homelessness charity will see more people sleeping rough in that city from next month...
29 July 2009
California's Budget crisis: Huge cuts spark workers' anger
CALIFORNIA'S STATE budget has an enormous $26 billion shortfall. To close it, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken a lesson from his silver screen days to "terminate" the state's welfare programmes...
29 April 2009
Does the 'botch it' budget benefit young people?
Alistair Darling's budget, presented on the day that unemployment reached 2.1 million, was posed as a budget of 'job creation', writes Ben Robinson.
29 April 2009
Budget 2009 - debts passed to all of us
"Get ready for dirty hospitals and crumbling schools" warned a journalist following the government budget last week...
Workers occupied Visteon Enfield, photo Paul Mattsson
22 April 2009
Big business parties attack our services: Whether a Labour or a Tory government is elected at the next general election, either will try to make extensive public spending cuts, writes Judy Beishon.
22 April 2009
Ireland: Budget savages workers
Feature: The Central Bank of Ireland says the Irish economy contracted by 3% last year and will contract by 7% this year and another 3% next year...
4 September 2004
TWO HUNDRED and fifty construction workers, members of the GMB and Amicus unions, who are working on the new Wembley stadium were sacked at two hours' notice on 10 August and locked out...
27 March 2004
Job Cuts - Now Is The Time To Act
GORDON BROWN'S message to public sector workers this week couldn't have been any clearer: "You will pay for New Labour's public finance crisis by losing your jobs"...
13 March 2004
THE COUNTDOWN to the general election has begun. All three mainstream parties have begun to showcase the policies that they think will excite the voters. Strip aside the spin, however, and the policies revealed will not excite, but will horrify, most...
7 February 2004
Southampton: "I USE the centre because it's convenient for me and my family and friends. We're not rich, we can't afford to join posh health clubs where the fees are very high. Soon there'll be nowhere to go and the young will be back on the streets getting...
24 January 2004
EALING COUNCIL in west London is facing a massive financial crisis, which local authority workers and services users will be expected to pay for. This crisis has been brewing for some time...
6 December 2003
University of Minnesota: First strike for 60 years
ON 21 October, the University of Minnesota (U of M) was shocked by its first strike in 60 years. For two weeks, members of the 1,800-strong American Federation of. State and County Municipal Employees...
20 September 2003
Sharon's Assassination Inc. "HIS EXPULSION is an option, his liquidation is another op-tion. It is also possible to confine him to prison-like conditions."...
19 April 2003
Brown's 'Optimistic' Budget Ignores Reality
IN HIS budget Chancellor Gordon Brown looked at the poor performance of the capitalist economy in Britain and the rest of the world and cut his forecast for growth for 2003-04 down to 2%-2.5%...
12 April 2003
Low growth and high deficits end Chancellor's surplus: JUST AFTER we go to press, on 9 April, chancellor Gordon Brown presents his budget. The financial media's 'experts' think it will be a 'dull' budget - but then it's not the experts who'll be paying...
7 December 2001
Brown's Budget Won't End NHS Underfunding
GORDON BROWN'S budget promise of £1 billion more for the NHS next year seems at first glance to be a positive move in improving a desperately under-funded health service, writes Jackie Grunsell.
16 March 2001
Budget: After the drought, a few drops of rain
GORDON BROWN'S budget was framed to guarantee a New Labour victory without scaring the big business horses says KEVIN PARSLOW...
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