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1 February 2012
Bankers bonus scandal - Fight this profit-mad system
The recent 'Hesteria' has been revealing. The Tories, majority funded by the City, went on about 'fairness' and bankers' bonuses but failed to challenge RBS boss Hester's £1m bung
TUC demo in March
7 September 2011
Mass workers' movement - the only way to make the super-rich pay
Editorial of the Socialist, issue 684 It is a sign of the bankrupt nature of modern capitalism and its political representatives that taxation of the rich is so low some of them are asking to pay more. Warren Buffett, in an act of self-flagellation, has demanded to pay more tax.
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...
9 July 2008
Rich get richer: Why should we pay the price!
The 'Haves and Have Yachts' lead totally different lives to the rest of us. Last year an American journalist wrote a book about how the super-rich now live in their own world of gated mansions with butlers and servants, private schools and hospitals. He called this nation 'Richistan'...
28 May 2008
Over four million low-paid workers felt some relief when Gordon Brown was forced into his tax u-turn, writes Judy Beishon.
30 April 2008
Public sector strike shows fightback has begun!
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Teachers on strike on 24 April 2008 in Lewisham, photo Martin Powell-Davies |
16 April 2008
A FOOD crisis is developing in Britain, though obviously not so severe as the impending catastrophe in the world's poorest countries...
19 March 2008
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Dow Jones falls amid turbulence |
4 March 2008
PEOPLE ARE becoming angry at scandals involving the super-rich and their tax-avoiding policies...
27 February 2008
Rich get richer - We pay the bills
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RMT protest against the fat-cats, photo Paul Mattsson |
11 October 2007
NEARLY A tenth of all political donations for Britain's capitalist parties, amounting to £17.5 million, are made by 'non-domiciled super-rich' people...
5 July 2007
"A new gilded age of inequality"
LAST YEAR the world's richest people increased their wealth at the fastest rate in seven years...
21 June 2007
Brown stresses 'continuity' with Blair
Editorial: LONDON HAS become a tax haven for the world's billionaires. One British hedge fund manager put it clearly: "I think the super-rich want to have two homes..."
25 January 2007
THE ARREST of Tony Blair's aide Ruth Turner, on suspicion of perverting the course of justice in the cash for honours investigation, has bought the whole question of funding of political parties into the limelight again...
4 January 2007
FAMILIES who lost their savings due to the collapse of the company Farepak struggled to have a good Christmas.
At the same time London's top financiers were living it up with bonuses totalling £9,000,000,000 (£9 billion). Across Britain as a whole, the bonuses received by directors were estimated to be double that figure, a staggering £18 billion.
6 July 2006
How the rich became super-rich
TWO OF the world's richest multi-billionaires, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, recently announced in a publicity exercise that they are giving away large parts of their vast wealth to philanthropic ventures...
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