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24 April 2013
Times Rich List: Super-rich get richer ... again
Unemployment: The Sunday Times Rich List is always a sickening read. A who's-who of Britain and Ireland's biggest exploiters, heirs and speculators - scroungers of the worst kind...
7 March 2013
Forbes Rich List exposes obscene inequality
The annual list of billionaires produced by Forbes Magazine has again seen records smashed by the world's hyper-rich, writes Matt Gordon.
YFJ Austerity Games
25 July 2012
£13 trillion hidden from tax by super-rich
Take the wealth off the 1%!: A sum of money the size of the US and Japanese Gross Domestic Product (GDP) together is being held in offshore tax havens, writes Naomi Byron.
30 November 2011 public sector strike, photo by Paul Mattsson
20 June 2012
World in crisis - make the super-rich pay: As the G20 leaders meet in Mexico, once again it's clear that none of them has a clue about how to end the spiralling crisis of capitalism.
13 June 2012
Super-rich Beecroft targets workers' rights
While YFJ calls for investment in job creation to solve unemployment others have different solutions, seeing the crisis as an opportunity to push their anti-worker agenda, writes Jeff Allen.
Marching through Leeds on 30 November 'N30' public sector strike, photo by Iain Dalton
2 May 2012
A strategy to stop austerity and bring down the government of the super-rich
What we think The Con-Dem coalition is Increasingly showing its weakness. Calls for an inquiry into whether Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt broke ministerial codes brings the Murdochgate scandal to the doors of Downing...
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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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...
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