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22 June 2006
One of the most controversial films in Venezuela in many years, Secuestro Express was made by a director who is rumoured to support reactionary opposition parties in the country...
9 March 2006
A party for the millions...not the millionaires!
SO THE husband of New Labour MP Tessa Jowell 'forgot' to tell her that he had taken a £350,000 'present' from a dodgy Italian businessman. What world do these MPs live in?...
16 February 2006
Building an alternative to the profit system
Socialist Party Conference 2006: 250 DELEGATES and visitors attended the Socialist Party's national conference, held in Skegness from the 11-13 February. Below are reports from the main debates at the conference. These can only give a flavour of the rich discussions...
10 November 2005
Blair staggers on... but 'PFI' Brown is no alternative
The following article was printed before Blair's humiliating defeat in the vote to detain terrorist suspects for 90 days...
6 October 2005
New attack on council workers' pensions
IT'S CLEAR that the truce over pensions between local government workers and New Labour is now over...
30 June 2005
Sri Lanka: The struggle for survival and justice goes on
THE PEOPLE in Sri Lanka who lost everything in the tsunami disaster of 26 December are still left with nothing...
19 May 2005
THE QUEEN’S speech on 17 May shows what Blair intends to do in the first part of his third term...
21 April 2005
Profits soar, wages fall in the globalised economy
IN A recent national opinion poll 73% of respondents were in favour of increasing the top rate of income tax on incomes of greater than £100,000 from 40p in the pound to 50p...
21 April 2005
Nancy 'woos' voters with socialism
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7 April 2005
PRESS REPORTS say average household incomes may have dropped by 0.2% last year...
7 August 2004
LAST WEEK the World Trade Organisation (WTO), one of the pillars of the world capitalist 'order', met in Geneva. World trade is dominated by a few hundred greedy multinationals who also control the WTO...
24 January 2004
Make Big Business And The Rich Pay
SOCIALIST PARTY member John Reid was invited along to Newsnight with his daughters Nathalie, a student currently £11,000 in debt, and Stephanie, who is seriously reconsidering whether she can afford to attend university in three years time because top-up fees will saddle her with debts of at least £20,000...
11 October 2003
Bosses Get Rich - Workers Get 30p
THE MINIMUM wage for over 21s went up this month by 30p to a measly £4.50 an hour (only £3.80 an hour for 18-21 year olds)...
23 August 2003
Of lying about weapons of mass destruction: WHILE BLAIR sunbathed in Barbados, one-third of people couldn't even afford to take a holiday. Those that do manage to get a break come back facing rising debts, worsening conditions at work, deteriorating...
9 August 2003
ACCORDING TO the Office of National Statistics, the value of the average pay cheque fell by 1.3% in the year up to April...
12 July 2003
Review: George Monbiot's Utopia - Capitalism Unchallenged
PETER TAAFFE, general secretary of the Socialist Party, reviews The Age of Consent - A Manifesto for a New World Order...
28 June 2003
CABINET MINISTER Peter Hain's very modest proposal - to increase the tax rate paid by the rich - caused a political storm...
17 May 2003
Wealth Gap Widens Under Blair: Make The Rich Pay!
THERE IS now the biggest wealth gap between the filthy rich and the poorest in society for 13 years. What's more, poverty levels under Tony Blair are worse even than they were under arch-Tory Margaret...
2 February 2001
Bribery, Bofors and the Hinduja brothers
CORRUPTION CASES are nothing new to India. In recent times some cases have been pursued vigorously and quite a few have been indicted, but the judicial system gives the rich and powerful umpteen loopholes.
5 January 2001
Who's Pulling Labour's Strings?
NEW LABOUR started the year showing its willingness to fight the forthcoming general election on behalf of big business by accepting mega bucks from the wealthy...
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