2 October 2008

Market madness!

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.

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2 October 2008

Student debt soaring

Students from Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester and Oxford lobby John Denham MP , photo Ben Robinson

STUDENTS BEWARE! The price of beans, bread and beer is going through the roof! And with a financially punitive student loans system debt is piling up for those going to university...

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29 September 2008

The great implosion: Capitalist finance system nears meltdown

Editorial, Socialism Today, October 2008: Over recent years, we have often been accused of being 'catastrophists'. This is because we predicted that the debt-driven bubble economy, dominated by high-profit, high-risk finance capitalism, would...

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21 May 2008

Them and Us: The great divide

IN SPAIN it was 76%, in Italy, France and Germany it was over 80%. That was the percentage of people who told a Financial Times/Harris poll that the gap between rich and poor is too wide.

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27 February 2008

Student feature: Fighting fees

Socialist Students in Manchester on the Campaign to Defeat Fees day of action, photo Abby Taylor

On 21 February Socialist Students and supporters of the Campaign to Defeat Fees (CDF) organised protests and stunts around the country to draw attention to the need for a national campaign against university fees and for free, writes Mark Walmsley and Frankie Langeland

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12 February 2008

Uni Fees must be fought!

Students from Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester and Oxford lobby John Denham MP, photo Ben Robinson

Over the last ten years the bosses' and fat cats' New Labour government has succeeded in making higher education unaffordable to hundreds of thousands of students, condemning them to debt and poverty... By Matt Dobson, Socialist Students national organiser

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6 February 2008

Protest against university fees

Denham denies debt: Students from Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester and Oxford gathered in Southampton to lobby John Denham, MP and Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills... By Toby Harris, southern region organiser for Socialist Students

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30 January 2008

Reality of London students' debt trap

Christmas may be over but many Goldsmiths students are still playing mousetrap... By James Kerr, Goldsmiths Socialist Students

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30 January 2008

Debt and housing slowdown threaten Britain's time bomb economy

Debt and housing time bomb, photo The Socialist

THE EXTREME volatility in the world's stock markets has not yet led to London city slickers jumping off skyscrapers. But growing fears about the underlying health of the economy prompted one commentator to scream about a global 'pandemic'...

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23 January 2008

Shock of recession draws near

Editorial: AS SHARE values tumbled in the most dramatic falls since 9/11, the talk was not so much of whether there will be a recession, but of how deep and long it will be....

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