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29 January 2005
After Zhao's death, where is China heading?
FORMER CHINESE Communist Party (CCP) leader Zhao Ziyang died last week. He had been under house arrest since the crushing of the Tiananmen Square...
6 November 2004
Is there an alternative to global warming?
NEW RESEARCH has shown that the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, as a result of burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil, has risen dramatically in the past two years...
23 October 2004
Black Gold Rush And Casino Capitalism
A 'BLACK gold' rush is in full swing. Profiting from the soaring price of oil, financiers are gambling billions on the New York and London commodities markets...
16 October 2004
How a socialist economy would work
COMMENTING ON last November's ESF in Paris, the Guardian columnist George Monbiot acknowledged that the official anti-capitalist movement has "scarcely attempted to tackle the big issue: what should be done about capitalism...
2 October 2004
TONY BLAIR may claim he is not the 'wobbling' kind. But the long shadow of the Iraq occupation, the hostage crisis and Labour's majority being reduced to less than 30 seats at a general election were likely to leave Blair, his ministers...
3 April 2004
Don't Let The Market Rule Education
ON THE eve of the crucial parliamentary vote on the final reading of the Higher Education bill, several Labour 'rebel' backbenchers were still threatening to oppose government plans to bring in top-up tuition fees (which the government calls 'variable fees')...
13 March 2004
Coventry Residents Insist: "You Won't Destroy Our Community"
"THE LAST thing you're going to get is my house," Reg Lee told developers to the cheers of a couple of hundred residents, packed into Coventry's Wood End community centre on 5 March...
28 February 2004
World Currencies - Turbulent Times Ahead?
ECONOMISTS WORLDWIDE are grasping at any sign of a revival in the US and world capitalist economies...
13 December 2003
Exposed: Labour's plans to bring the 'market' into higher education
Facts Behind The Fees: THE UNIVERSITY top-up fees Bill is causing a major headache for Tony Blair. He is desperately trying to sell it to an angry public and to rebellious Labour MPs. Zena Awad is the national coordinator of...
1 November 2003
Network Rail: Not renationalisation as we know it
THE DECISION by Network Rail, a not-for-profit company, to take back 'in-house' all maintenance on the main line railways is a welcome step in reversing the catastrophic privatisation experiment...
18 October 2003
World economy: Will There Be A Recovery?
CAN US capitalism pull the world economy out of its present stagnation? Japan has been stuck at near-zero growth for over ten years...
13 September 2003
Death Ships, Courtesy Of The Free Market
THIRTEEN HIGHLY toxic ships are to be imported from the US to be dismantled in a deal struck by the waste disposal company AbleUK, writes Lois Austin.
10 August 2001
World Economy: Here comes the slump
The Bank of England's fourth cut in interest rates this year was prompted by government figures showing manufacturing in sharp decline, with 35,000 jobs lost in the last week alone...
6 July 2001
WHAT DO these two people have in common? Howard lives in Seattle, USA, and has just bought himself a $200 million stake in the Seattle Supersonics basketball team. Maria lives in the Eastern Highlands...
9 June 2001
Indonesia: Reactionaries Step Up Attacks On The Working Class
SUPPORTERS OF Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid clashed violently with police last week in the capital Jakarta, writes Niall Mulholland.
27 April 2001
Drug companies: so much for the free market
DRUG COMPANIES, making medicines that could save millions of lives, recently brought a court action against the South African government, writes Jon Dale.
30 March 2001
Frenzied speculators enter the deflationary spiral
IT WAS panic on the financial streets of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and other world financial centres last week as stock markets went into simultaneous freefall...
5 January 2001
Vauxhall Luton - Angry workers ready for Action
AFTER CAR multinational General Motors (GM) announced it was closing its Vauxhall plant in Luton, angry workers laid siege to the firm's headquarters...
10 November 2000
THE LANCASHIRE Socialist Alliance (LSA) campaign for the Preston by-election is beginning to take off, writes Max Neill.
6 October 2000
Oil Prices on a roller coaster ride
THE RECENT tripling of crude oil prices sparked a protest wave throughout Europe. Protesters directed their anger at high fuel taxes, accounting for 72% of the pump price in Britain. Barely tolerable when...
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