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28 March 2012
Budget for the 1% must be fought
The blatantly pro-rich budget of Chancellor George Osborne was met by a wave of outrage. There was incredulity that the top 1% had been made significantly better off, while pushing on with austerity for everyone else
22 March 2012
Chancellor of the 99% announces alternative budget
Yesterday in London 300 activists protested against Chancellor George Osborne's austerity budget. On hand was Youth Fight for Jobs' "Chancellor for the 99%" to outline an alternative
21 March 2012
Another repugnant Tory-Liberal budget for big business and the rich
Trying to fit in with the angry mood of ordinary people against bankers' bonuses, bailouts and other windfalls of the rich, Tory chancellor Osborne in his budget speech called tax evasion by the wealthy "morally repugnant"
Pigs at the trough: Obsorne's budget 2012 a hand out for the rich , photo Alan Hardman
21 March 2012
Budget: far from 'all in it together'
Asked about the Con-Dem budget, Simon Hughes, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats pleaded for "a budget for the millions not the millionaires"
25 May 2011
Why Liverpool needs a needs budget
On 14 May 2011 Derek Hatton, deputy leader of the 47 Liverpool councillors in their battle against the Tory government's cuts from 1983 to 1987, pronounced in the Liverpool Echo newspaper that refusing to implement the cuts would be political suicide for present-day Labour leader Joe Anderson...
Labour councillors' conference lobbied by hundreds of angry trade unionists, photo Suzanne Beishon
24 March 2011
All of these measures, and many more, could be carried out by using councils' legal powers. However, alone, legal powers would not be enough...
24 March 2011
Budget fuels determination to fight back!
The chancellor of the exchequer's budget speech yesterday came as no relief at all to the many millions of people who are struggling to make ends meet and who are reeling under the onslaught of the government's austerity measures
23 March 2011
Little to laugh about in 'Carry On Cuts' budget
Like so many sequels, George Osborne's second full budget as Chancellor will be a disappointing re-run of the first. Working class people will find little to cheer them, writes Sean Figg.
7 July 2010
Hull: Rallying against the austerity budget
AROUND 100 trade unionists gathered in Hull city centre on Saturday 3 July to protest at the shocking cuts coming to the public sector following the Con-Dem budget, writes Jack Walker.
7 July 2010
How will George Osborne's budget affect families?
"It's class war, isn't it?" This was the view of a woman asked by the BBC what she thought of George Osborne's emergency budget, the day after it was announced, writes Eleanor Donne and Vicky Perin.
23 June 2010
Stop budget attacks with mass action
No to pay and benefit cuts: The Tory/Lib Dem budget included a rise in VAT to 20%, a pay freeze for most public sector workers and the cutting and erosion of a number of key benefits - including housing benefit.
These vicious measures will hit millions of workers and the poorest people in society very hard, and there is much more to come, writes Judy Beishon.
Glenn Kelly, photo Alison Hill
23 June 2010
Budget Day: workers' responses
'We will fight the bloodbath budget': AS A council workers' representative I sat awaiting our fate from part one of the Con-Dem government's bloodbath budget. Now it's time for us to send them a message, writes Glenn Kelly, Bromley UNISON.
23 June 2010
Budget cuts hitting the poorest hardest
Editorial: The new government hasn't stopped cutting during its first seven weeks in power. First came £6.2 billion of cuts, followed by more, suddenly-announced cuts of £12.5 billion just a few days before the...
22 June 2010
Budget offers no relief for youth
Ben Robinson, Youth Fight for Jobs Chair, said "This government have abolished the Future Jobs Fund with no replacement...
No to privatisation of services
16 June 2010
Millionaire ministers savage public services
Bloodbath Budget 22 June: Deeper cuts, faster cuts, tougher cuts. This is what Tory chancellor George Osborne promises in his 'austerity' budget, saying public debt is "worse than we thought"...
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.
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...
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...
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