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20 February 2013
Belt tightening: Farewell Woolworths, so long HMV, sayanara Peacocks. We've said goodbye to a whole host of high street chains over the last five years as shoppers have had to tighten their belts.
30 January 2013
Tory Chancellor Gideon Osborne still tells us austerity is working, but the government managed to take economic growth below 0% not once, not twice but now into a 'triple dip', writes Dave Griffiths, West Midlands Socialist Party.
Glasgow 1915 Rent Strike, photo by Unknown
31 October 2012
Housing: How the market has failed
When strikes and protests won reforms: Five million people in Britain - two million households - are desperate for decent, affordable housing...
6 June 2012
Wonga windfall: £1 billion. That's the estimated value of pay-day loan company Wonga if it decides to go ahead with floating on the stock market.
Jarrow demonstration: we are the 99% Take the wealth off the 1%, photo Paul Mattsson
22 February 2012
In response to the growing opposition to this profit-hungry capitalist system, many of its proponents have argued that not all capitalism is bad. Lynn Walsh exposes the myths proposed by prime minister Cameron as he tries to sell us the idea of 'popular' capitalism.
12 October 2011
Marching in the footsteps of history
When the Jarrow March for Jobs leaves Leicester, not only will it be following in the footsteps of the 1936 Jarrow Crusade, but also Leicester's 1905 Unemployed March, writes Dan Fahey.
28 September 2011
Metal thefts - The hidden crime of capitalism
16-year old Ryan Woolams was electrocuted this July trying to steal copper cable from the disused Skelton Grange power station in Leeds, writes Paul Gerrard.
1 June 2011
Glencore - Profiting from global hunger
The Swiss based multibillion dollar mining, energy and food trader Glencore was listed on the London and Hong Kong stock markets on 24 May, writes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info.
6 April 2011
ISTC rip-off: Private health firms ripped off the NHS in London by £22 million between 2007 and 2010. This sum equates to the cost of employing 600 nurses...
Socialist Party members on NHS demonstration in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson
19 January 2011
Government health bill spells disaster for patients and workers: THE GOVERNMENT is planning a massive assault on the NHS in England in its latest health bill. This is on top of billions of pounds of 'efficiency savings' ie cuts, in the NHS budget, a London health workers explains...
1 December 2010
Our health - A market for big business
YOUR HEALTH care is being privatised. Your body's ailments may worry you but to someone else they will be soon be a commodity to be bartered for, bought and sold on the free market, writes By an NHS healthworker.
3 November 2010
Con-Dem shock therapy - midwife to a double dip?
The comprehensive spending review (CSR) announced by the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, on 20 October will be a high-voltage charge of shock therapy for the British economy, writes Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party executive committee.
6 October 2010
ILO predict a riot: RECESSION IN the world capitalist economy, leading to high unemployment, will trigger growing social unrest according to the United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO)...
20 September 2010
The fiasco over the Kyoto agreement is a good example to demonstrate the inability of the capitalist system to tackle the crisis...
20 September 2010
The Green Movement Agenda for Sustainability
There are many variations of the Green and environmental movement agenda, so any categorisation must be approximate and recognise that there is overlap between them...
20 September 2010
Green growth proponents can be divided into two camps, those advocating 'hard' and 'soft' sustainability...
20 September 2010
Eco-socialism is still marginalised in the Green movement, but as the total inability of capitalist solutions to solve environmental problems become more apparent, interest in it will inevitably grow...
20 September 2010
A Socialist Programme for the Environment
The earth is clearly on the path to ecological catastrophe. This road will be marked by, amongst many other examples, the destruction of large areas of the inhabitable globe due to global warming, the...
20 September 2010
The Techniques of Socialist Planning
After the initial time of rapid expansion, a steady state society will emerge where the enormous power of planning, combined with the release of human resourcefulness and energy under socialism, will enable huge steps to be taken to preserve the environment...
20 September 2010
Democratic, rational planning will permit a consistent improvement in ecological conditions to be achieved over many decades until full sustainability is reached...
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