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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.
2 April 2008
End Labour's 'them and us' society
You could not make it up. Disgraced former Northern Rock chief executive Adam Applegarth will get a payout of £760,000!
6 September 2007
The Super-Rich, the owners of Britain's industrial and financial giants, are getting enormously richer while workers are more and more forced to take industrial action merely to defend their pay, pensions and conditions...
3 May 2007
NHS cuts... privatisation... widening wealth gap
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Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS campaign councillor, photo Alison Hill |
3 May 2007
Widening wealth gap needs working-class response
Editorial: What is Tony Blair's legacy? The Sunday Times has no doubts. Its latest 'Rich List' revealed that the wealth of the richest 1,000 people in Britain.
Analysis of the local election results will be posted from Friday onwards
15 December 2006
The unleashing of free-market, capitalist forces has deepened the chasm of inequality between rich and poor, capitalist and worker, both across the globe and within all countries...
16 November 2006
Iraq, corruption and wealth gap send Republicans into a tail-spin
But corporate Democrats offer no real alternative: THE REPUBLICANS and Bush have suffered a 'thumping' political defeat. Bush himself admitted it, adding, "I didn't see it coming. But what would I know?"...
7 August 2004
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) latest report, 'The State of the Nation' confirms what we know only too well - Britain is deeply divided...
1 November 2003
Wealth gap widens The Low Pay Scandal Exposed
Special Feature: NEW LABOUR came to power in 1997 promising to introduce a minimum wage. They claimed it would eradicate child poverty within 20 years. But low pay is still the major issue for thousands of workers. Ken...
17 May 2003
Wealth Gap Widens Under Blair: Make The Rich Pay!
THERE IS now the biggest wealth gap between the filthy rich and the poorest in society for 13 years. What's more, poverty levels under Tony Blair are worse even than they were under arch-Tory Margaret...
23 November 2001
WTO Policies Increase Wealth Gap
"THE WORLD Trade Organisation's (WTO) ministerial meeting here [Doha, in the Gulf state of Qatar] often seemed like a giant children's party, writes Dave Carr.
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