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Con-Dems benefit fact fraud - tax, avoided, evaded and uncollected, photo Socialist Party
15 May 2013
Fat cat tax-dodging: 200 lorry loads of lolly!
Anger is rising at the companies and millionaires who pay little or no tax in Britain. They're very happy to make money exploiting people's hard work - but less keen to put anything back, writes Tom Baldwin.
24 April 2013
Times Rich List: Super-rich get richer ... again
Unemployment: The Sunday Times Rich List is always a sickening read. A who's-who of Britain and Ireland's biggest exploiters, heirs and speculators - scroungers of the worst kind...
20 March 2013
Another Dooh Nibor budget - stealing from the poor to give to the rich
'All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!' It's not Pulp Fiction - its Tory Chancellor George Osborne at the dispatch box and this will be the essence of his budget speech, at least for the vast majority of us
7 March 2013
Forbes Rich List exposes obscene inequality
The annual list of billionaires produced by Forbes Magazine has again seen records smashed by the world's hyper-rich, writes Matt Gordon.
18 February 2013
Carlisle: Demands to 'tax the rich' hit a nerve
"Tax avoidance isn't illegal, I do it every year" said the leader of Cumbria council
30 January 2013
Tory Chancellor Gideon Osborne still tells us austerity is working, but the government managed to take economic growth below 0% not once, not twice but now into a 'triple dip', writes Dave Griffiths, West Midlands Socialist Party.
30 January 2013
According to a report by the PCS civil service union, £120 billion of tax goes unpaid every year. This money, mostly avoided and evaded by the super-rich, could virtually wipe out the deficit, writes Tom Baldwin, South West Socialist Party.
5 December 2012
Hot air from Starbucks...: The ever-generous Starbucks has agreed to carry out a review of whether it maybe possible, at some point, to pay a little more tax...
17 October 2012
And the winner is: If watching Tory conference speeches brings you out in hives, you might have avoided Osborne's speech - a further £10 billion to be cut from the welfare budget, unconvincingly veiled in the language of 'fairness'
12 September 2012
Bristol YFJ: "We're not lazy - we're fighting back"
Outraged by news of the book Britannia Unchained, which brands working class people as lazy, activists from Bristol Youth Fight for Jobs picketed the surgery of Chris Skidmore, Tory MP for Kingswood and one of the right-wing authors of the book, writes Patrick McInally.
5 September 2012
Underemployment: It's well known that the official unemployment figures hide the true extent of the jobs crisis in many ways...
25 July 2012
Outsourcing fails again. For publicly owned and run services!
The Olympics G4S security debacle has further increased public opposition to privatisation. But for G4S at present, its failure to deliver on its contract will merely dent its massive profits
YFJ Austerity Games
25 July 2012
£13 trillion hidden from tax by super-rich
Take the wealth off the 1%!: A sum of money the size of the US and Japanese Gross Domestic Product (GDP) together is being held in offshore tax havens, writes Naomi Byron.
The Youth Fight for Jobs Austerity Games held in Hackney Marshes 24 July 2012 highlighted the plight of young people, photo Paul Mattsson
25 July 2012
On your marks.... Get set.... Fight back!
Olympic Britain - we're priced out: Make the super-rich pay for the crisis - not the 99%!...
11 July 2012
The Shard: As useless as a hole in the ground
Readers' comment: Europe's tallest building, the Shard, next to London Bridge station, opened on 5 July at a cost of nearly £1 billion, writes Bill Mullins
11 July 2012
TV Review: Britain on the brink - back to the '70s
This Panorama documentary (9 July) looked at what effect the economic crisis had on ordinary people. It asked whether we would see the same response as at the end of the 1970s when falling living standards...
Never Trust a Tory, photo by Paul Mattsson
27 June 2012
Hypocrites! Tories bash benefits, rich let off the hook
David Cameron launched a scathing attack on comedian Jimmy Carr's million pound tax-dodging while leaving unscathed the billions of taxes avoided by his posh friends in big business, writes Dave Reid.
Lone parents need decent wages and benefits, photo Paul Mattsson
27 June 2012
Government of rich ups war on welfare state
Cuts are now predicted to last to 2020. But Prime Minister David Cameron's speech on Monday 25 June mapped out the depth of that on-going suffering. The speech included little detail but spells out misery...
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.
20 June 2012
Wealthy rats are leaping from the sinking ships. As the eurozone lurches from crisis to crisis, the rich and the super-rich in Greece, Spain, Italy and even France and Germany are transferring their wealth...
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