Campaigns and comments: | |||||||
|
2 October 2008 Students from Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester and Oxford lobby John Denham MP , photo Ben Robinson 23 September 2008 British capitalism in crisis: This was the week that the world changed. For over two decades all we have heard from the UK government is that the market must decide. Schools, hospitals and public services have been cut and privatised... 17 September 2008
10 September 2008
"Home owners need to know that we will do everything we can to keep the housing market moving forward", promised Gordon Brown last week, Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party writes. 31 July 2008 More than a million Americans have lost their homes in the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression, but no more whining... 8 July 2008
11 June 2008 AFTER THE final state primaries, Barack Obama has effectively secured the Democratic nomination for the presidential election in November. The fact that the contest was between an African-American and a woman symbolises deep social changes in the US... 4 June 2008
THE CHIEF executive of Bradford and Bingley bank has stepped down amidst reports of massively reduced profits, due to an increasing number of accounts in arrears... 4 June 2008
A LONDON newspaper recently announced in bold headlines: "Brown is brown bread" (for the benefit of non-Londoners, that means 'dead!'), writes Paul Kennedy. 21 May 2008 Housing crisis worsens: In the same week that Tony Blair buys his sixth house for £4 million, the Local Government Association announced that another million people could join housing waiting lists in the next two years, writes Lois Austin. |