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Bankers protest by Walthamstow Socialist Party, photo by The Socialist
2 May 2012
Rich list: The good times roll for the 0.00001%
"Those with the broadest shoulders will bear the largest load... we're all in this together." These, David Cameron's famous words to his first Conservative Party conference as prime minister, asked ordinary people to close their eyes to reality, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield.
18 April 2012
The revolting philanthropy of the filthy rich
Oxford and Cambridge, universities of the elite, are "in revolt" against Chancellor George Osborne's plans to curb tax breaks the filthy rich gain from charitable donations, writes Pete Mason.
21 March 2012
Super rich suffer cash piles: It seems that 'Broke Britain' ain't so broke. Cash holdings of big companies in Britain are standing at £731 billion. That's cash sitting in banks not being invested because of 'lack of confidence...
16 March 2011
The rich get richer - by another $1 trillion
THE LATEST rich list produced by the Forbes magazine shows that the collective wealth of the world's 1,210 billionaires has reached a new record high of $4.5 trillion - up nearly $1 trillion on last year's total...
27 October 2010
TV review: A worker in Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and PCS union member comments on the recent Channel 4 Dispatches programme...
4 August 2010
Rich just carry on getting richer
MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS in HSBC will look forward to big dividends as Britain's biggest bank saw its profits almost double to £7.2 billion over the six months up to June...
2 June 2010
CHIEF TREASURY secretary David Laws, described as "a genius" by colleagues, inflicted £6.2 billion of cuts in public spending which will hit millions of people...
26 May 2010
Tory government says rich must pay less
CAMERON'S GOVERNMENT wants to cut public services drastically and make most people pay more through rising taxes (direct and indirect) to slash the deficit...
27 April 2010
THE ANNUAL Sunday Times rich list was published on 25 April. It shows that at a time when we are all being told to prepare for 'tough times ahead' and massive cuts in services, public spending and welfare...
Dave Nellist (2nd left) and Bob Crow (right) with supporters launch No2EU, photo D Carr
3 February 2010
'Filthy rich' get richer: Challenge the bosses' greed!
Record wealth gap: AFTER 13 years of Labour rule, the gap between the rich and the rest of us is now wider than at any time for nearly 70 years, a new 460-page report from the 'National Equality Panel', a group of academics, shows that the wealth of the richest 10% of Britain's population is now 100 times that of the poorest 10%, writes Dave Nellist, Coventry Socialist Party councillor.
29 April 2009
THE SUNDAY Times 'Rich List', the annual survey that estimates the minimum wealth of Britain's 1,000 richest people, is usually an exercise in licking the ruling class' boots, writes Roger Shrives.
15 October 2008
Mandelson - New minister for the rich
PETER MANDELSON, Baron of Foy and Hartlepool is now secretary of state for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and president of the Board of Trade...
9 July 2008
Rich get richer: Why should we pay the price!
The 'Haves and Have Yachts' lead totally different lives to the rest of us. Last year an American journalist wrote a book about how the super-rich now live in their own world of gated mansions with butlers and servants, private schools and hospitals. He called this nation 'Richistan'...
23 April 2008
The rich get richer... and we foot the bill!
Tax cuts for the rich: Big business has received a corporation tax cut from 30p to 28p this month, down from 33p when New Labour was elected in 1997...
27 February 2008
Rich get richer - We pay the bills
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RMT protest against the fat-cats, photo Paul Mattsson |
5 July 2007
Brown's government for the rich
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Demonstration against cuts in the NHS, 1 November 2006, photo Paul Mattsson |
5 July 2007
"A new gilded age of inequality"
LAST YEAR the world's richest people increased their wealth at the fastest rate in seven years...
19 April 2007
Bank that only serves the rich
IN AN outrageous display of capitalist elitism, HSBC, "the world's local bank", is shutting one of its Dorset branches in the Canford Cliffs area to anyone who does not have more than £50,000 savings, a £200,000 mortgage o...
15 March 2007
£billions for rich... Pennies for us!
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Blair's Britain: BRITAIN IS now more unequal than at any time in living memory. If you are a low-paid worker on the minimum wage you're offered a pay rise way below the real inflation rate. It's the same 'offer' for many public-sector workers. If you are an out-of-work single parent, you're harassed by the government to get any job, no matter how low-paid. If you are one of the super-rich, however, this government will fawn on you.
Tony Blair - Bosses' puppet |
4 January 2007
FAMILIES who lost their savings due to the collapse of the company Farepak struggled to have a good Christmas.
At the same time London's top financiers were living it up with bonuses totalling £9,000,000,000 (£9 billion). Across Britain as a whole, the bonuses received by directors were estimated to be double that figure, a staggering £18 billion.
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