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1 May 2013
Bangladesh building collapse - casualties of a rotten profit system
It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh...
30 November 2011 public sector strike, photo by Paul Mattsson
20 June 2012
World in crisis - make the super-rich pay: As the G20 leaders meet in Mexico, once again it's clear that none of them has a clue about how to end the spiralling crisis of capitalism.
9 June 2010
Oil spill shows hazards of the profit system
IT IS still difficult to assess the scale of the disaster that followed the explosion on the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on 22 April, which killed eleven workers, writes Pete Dickenson.
29 July 2009
Swine flu: Profit system puts people at risk
SWINE 'FLU is rapidly spreading. A vaccine to prevent infection is urgently needed but it will be next year before there are sufficient supplies to protect everyone in Britain. Eventually half the population...
2 October 2008
Profit system failing: The world economy, already in turmoil from the credit crunch, was swept further into an abyss by the thunderbolt news that the US congress had rejected a 'blank cheque' $700 billion bailout of failing banks, writes Judy Beishon, editor, The Socialist.
30 September 2008
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Defend workers' living standards. Photo International Socialists |
22 November 2007
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8 November 2007
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16 February 2006
Building an alternative to the profit system
Socialist Party Conference 2006: 250 DELEGATES and visitors attended the Socialist Party's national conference, held in Skegness from the 11-13 February. Below are reports from the main debates at the conference. These can only give a flavour of the rich discussions...
1 December 2005
Don't let the profit system cost us the earth!
TONY BLAIR recently claimed that tackling climate change is a priority...
6 October 2005
Global warming: Profit system guilty!
CAPITALISM IS screwing up the world! Scientists say that because of global warming, land and sea species are dying out faster than previously predicted,...
25 August 2005
China/EU dispute: Crazy logic of the profit system
THE MEDIA has been resounding to waves of denunciation and counter-denunciation over the banning of imports of clothes from China to the European Union (EU) - the so-called 'bra wars'...
2 June 2005
Say no to the bosses' profit system
MILLIONS OF French workers and young people have said a resounding 'non' to the European bosses' agenda of low wages, job cuts, privatisation and vicious attacks on working conditions, benefits and pub...
15 January 2005
Tsunami disaster: cancel the debt
THE TERRIBLE effects of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean have forced the world's richest nations, the G8, to agree to suspend debt repayments from the worst hit countries...
4 September 2004
Defending the 35-hour week: The Profit System's The Problem, Not The Workers
Defending the 35-hour week: Minister for Europe and former trade union official Denis MacShane has recently claimed: "An obsession with the 35-hour week is now part of Europe's economic problem, not the solution."...
3 November 2000
BSE crisis - the madness of the profit system
THE BSE epidemic represents a deadlier threat to human health than HIV/Aids. Yet the people who are responsible for the deaths of over 80 people so far and who have put millions at risk - former Tory ministers...
15 September 2000
Prague 2000 - Take direct action - End Profit System
WHILE PROTESTS against fuel prices were taking place in France and Britain, 10, 000 protesters blockaded the entrance to the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia...
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