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29 February 2012
Bankers are now facing a fresh wave of anger as Lloyds has announced that, despite netting a £3.5 billion loss last year, a handful of executives will collect £375 million in bonuses, writes Ross Saunders, Wales Socialist Party.
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.
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.
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...
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...
1 December 2010
Bankers: The new untouchables?
THE BANKERS' astronomical pay just won't go away, however much the Con-Dems wish it would. George Osborne asked the banks (nicely) to tell him how many of their staff earned over £1 million a year (remember:...
Biofuels demo in Beckton, photo Paul Mattsson
27 April 2010
Housing in crisis: Bankers rob people
A QUARTER of all households - in owned or rented accommodation - say that worry over housing costs is causing them stress or depression, says a survey by housing charity Shelter, writes Keith Richardson.
17 February 2010
It's all for the best: THE NUMBER of housing repossessions for 2009 was the highest since 1995. Some 46,000 homes were repossessed last year, an increase of 6,000 on the total for 2008. In addition, 188,300 homeowners were in...
Youth Fight for Jobs campaign against unemployment - marching in Barking
27 January 2010
Bonuses for bankers but recession for workers
My new year's resolution was to stop watching TV. This is not for health reasons but because I can't afford to buy a new one if I kick it in while watching the news! Who hasn't wanted to do that recently?
12 January 2010
Protest against bankers' bonuses
Protest against bankers' bonuses
City of London
20 January 5pm.
See www.youthfightforjobs.com for more details or call 020 8558 7947
21 October 2009
Laughing all the way to the bank
US BANK Goldman Sachs is on track to pay $22 billion in salaries and bonuses this year, an average of $700,000 for each of its 31,700 employees, writes John Sharpe.
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