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16 April 2008
Housing crisis: Britain's house of cards
AS THE US economy moves sharply downwards, the threat of a crash in the British housing market is becoming ever more real, writes Marc Glasscoe, Socialist Party Lincoln.
25 March 2008
World events and their repercussions
Two extracts from a summary of the present world situation and world relations, written by Peter Taaffe for a meeting taking place this month of representatives from European sections of the Committee for a Workers' International...
19 March 2008
Darling's 'more of the same' budget
Editorial: "The most wrenching since the end of the second world war" is how Alan Greenspan, ex-head of the US Federal Reserve, described the current crisis engulfing the US economy...
19 March 2008
Building a campaigning, fighting socialist party
Informed by discussions on likely political developments, worldwide and in Britain, the Socialist Party congress also examined what these mean for us organisationally in the session on 'building the Socialist party', writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party secretary
19 March 2008
Delegates and visitors from Socialist Party branches across England and Wales met in London on 8-10 March, for the Socialist Party's annual congress. Reports on main sessions.
12 March 2008
World's poor hit by rocketing food prices
ONE IN six of the world's population (854 million) do not have enough food to eat. Every year, despite the recent boom in the world economy, another four million are added to this total.
1 March 2008
The 2008 National Congress is taking place against the background of a profound change in the world economy and, flowing from that, the political situation...
1 March 2008
Exactly how severe the crisis in Britain's economy will be, how long it will take to bite, and the precise political effects of it, are not yet clear...
27 February 2008
Feature: Fidel Castro's resignation opens up new chapter
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Fidel Castro in his days as a guerrila |
19 February 2008
Northern Rock - Labour's reluctant nationalisation
The Socialist Editorial The nationalisation of Northern Rock was met with howls of outrage from some of its shareholders, who screamed about 'theft' and 'immorality'. This was a major blow against the concept of an unfettered market-driven economy...
13 February 2008
100 people pack London world economy meeting
IN RESPONSE to the current global shocks to the world economy, more than 100 people packed the all-London Socialist Party public meeting on 7 February... By Manny Thain
30 January 2008
Debt and housing slowdown threaten Britain's time bomb economy
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Debt and housing time bomb, photo The Socialist |
29 January 2008
THE RECENT white-knuckle ride on world stock markets threatens a world recession. And it will be working-class people who will pay the price, writes Manny Thain
29 January 2008
New Labour attacking our vital benefits
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Flooded with Debt, cartoon by Suz, www.squashdonkey.co.uk |
23 January 2008
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....
13 December 2007
Interest rate cut will bring no reprieve
Editorial: FOLLOWING THE interest rate cut there are continued fears that the current downturn in the economy could lead to a recession. 2008 could be the toughest year for the British economy for a long time.
13 December 2007
Beijing Olympics under a cloud
China: On a recent trip to India, said to have cost around £750,000 of public money, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone offered the Bollywood film industry a cheap deal for the use of some of the Olympic buildings in East London a... By Clare Doyle
14 November 2007
World economy: Bosses' crisis, workers pay
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Bubbles: Socialism Today, May 2007, anticiapted the c rash. Cartoon by Suz |
14 November 2007
Editorial: Shattering confidence in world economy
Earlier this year, capitalist leaders were boasting of record growth in the world economy, around 5% a year for over five years...
22 October 2007
Gordon Brown's honeymoon is over. His initial commanding lead in opinion polls fuelled speculation of a snap election. Now, the new prime minister trails...
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