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26 November 2008

China's food contamination crisis deepens

FISH, PORK, and chicken contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, along with milk and eggs. China's food contamination crisis deepens by the day, writes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info.

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19 November 2008

World food crisis: A systemic failure of capitalism

The world could be facing a repeat of this year's food crisis, as the impact of recession unfolds. This month, despite what has been described as "harvest bumper crops", the UN Food and Agriculture...

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2 October 2008

Climate change calamities: Socialist planning needed

The "methane time bomb" has ignited, the Independent newspaper recently declared. The arctic permafrost is melting and releasing a greenhouse gas twenty times more powerful than carbon dioxide, which threatens to rapidly heat up the planet. Urgent action is needed...

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13 August 2008

No to food & fuel poverty

Prices rise, wages fall - from CNWP leaflet, www.cnwp.org.uk

Prices rise, wages fall - from CNWP leaflet, www.cnwp.org.uk

Nationalise the top food and fuel companies: Each week the cost of getting to the supermarket, buying the basic groceries for a family and cooking a meal is going up. Shoppers and shop workers talk about soaring prices on the checkout and wonder how we're going to manage and where it will end, writes Vicky Perrin, Huddersfield Socialist Party.

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16 July 2008

Feature: Price inflation - the sickness of capitalism

Bubbles: The cover of Socialism Today, May 2007, anticipated the crash. Cartoon by Suz

Bubbles: The cover of Socialism Today, May 2007, anticipated the crash. Cartoon by Suz

THE PRICES of food and fuel are soaring, as are household gas and electricity bills.
The main cause is the explosion of world oil, food and other commodity prices.
Yet Brown, Darling and other New Labour ministers are calling for "pay restraint"! But why should workers pay for inflation?
Lynn Walsh looks at the causes and consequences of this sickness of free market capitalism.

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9 July 2008

G8 leaders' 'world hunger' banquet

GOVERNMENT LEADERS from the world's most powerful capitalist countries have been meeting at the G8 summit...

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11 June 2008

Oil price shock - the chaos of capitalism

Years of frenzied speculation on commodity markets: We have been hit by a tsunami of energy price rises. A flood of speculative activity in oil markets has produced a huge bubble that will inevitably collapse in coming months. Lynn Walsh investigates.

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21 May 2008

China: Earthquake disaster exposes regime's failings

AN ESTIMATED 50,000 people or more were killed when a powerful earthquake struck central China last week. Some five million survivors are homeless. Chen Lizhi and Vincent Kolo expose the shortcomings of the regime in the light of this disaster.

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21 May 2008

Global food crisis

THE WORLD is experiencing a global food crisis. 73 million people on the planet have to survive on handouts from the United Nations World Food Programme...

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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...

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