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18 January 2012
Hundreds of staff at the huge HMRC tax office off Bridge St in Manchester joined a very well-supported morning walkout on 16 January, writes Hugh Caffrey.
18 January 2012
Irish 'poll tax' battle has begun
A massive campaign against a new 'Household Charge' has begun in Ireland. The new flat tax affects 1.6 million households across the country, including the overwhelming majority of ordinary workers...
Massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle
18 January 2012
Greece: Non-payment movement against new housing tax
In October 2011 the Greek Pasok government of George Papandreou (just before being forced out of office), announced the implementation of a new housing tax through people's electricity bills, writes Christina Ziakka, Xekinima (CWI in Greece).
18 January 2012
Bonus restraint? Fat chance!: I have just seen with disgust that Bob Diamond, the boss of Barclays Bank, is in line for a £10 million bonus (on top of his £1.3 million a year salary) for his efforts in the financial world this year, writes Lin Black, Swansea.
Rob Windsor
16 January 2012
Rob Windsor: socialist fighter and Coventry Socialist Party councillor 1964-2012
On 14 January Rob Windsor, socialist fighter and previous Socialist Party councillor in Coventry, lost his long struggle against liver disease and died at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth hospital.
14 December 2011
PCS members working as tax officials at the HMRC joined in a three-hour lunchtime action on 12 December over the introduction of agency workers in contact centres...
26 October 2011
Coleman gets real: Brian Coleman, Tory councillor and London fire authority boss, is notorious for threatening Fire Brigades Union members with mass sackings and claiming vast expenses on top of his reported £120,000 a year earnings...
Teamsters local 814 president Jason Ide and PCS members outside Sotheby's London, 13.10.11, photo Kevin Parslow. PCS members will fight the job cuts
26 October 2011
Tax dodging continues while staff face cuts
Big business and the wealthy manipulate loopholes in the system to avoid and evade paying an estimated £120 billion a year in tax...
Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI, on massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle
28 September 2011
As debt crisis deepens... Greek workers and youth in revolt
Greece has recently experienced a barrage of strikes by different sections of the working class - involving transport workers, teachers, some council workers, taxi drivers, mental health workers and others - against the Pasok government's latest austerity measures...
14 September 2011
Childcare costs push parents into hardship
Tory/Lib Dem claims to support families in Britain are looking increasingly threadbare as a recent study by Save the Children and the Daycare Trust shows...
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.
31 August 2011
Mea Culpa: US investor Warren Buffett has ruffled the feathers of his fellow billionaires by demanding they pay more taxes...
18 August 2011
Nothing Left about the Scottish National Party
Working class communities in Scotland will pay the price of the SNP's savage austerity measures - while SNP ministers are taking huge cash windfalls
Cardiff protest, photo Socialist Party Wales
1 June 2011
Cardiff NHS protest against Topshop tax dodger
Topshop in Cardiff city centre was occupied on Saturday 28 May in protest at cuts to the NHS taking place while billionaire business people like Topshop's owner Sir Phillip Green avoid paying tax
4 May 2011
Smoke and mirrors: City of London fat cats saw their 2010-11 bonus pot shrink 8%, compared to a year earlier, to £6.7 billion...
Protesting in Manchester in January, photo Dave Beale
13 April 2011
Con-Dems' economic policy... austerity, austerity, austerity!
'The worst is yet to come'. The Con-Dem chancellor, George Osborne, claims his budget (24 March) is the "most pro-growth budget for a generation", writes Lynn Walsh, Editor of Socialism Today.
24 March 2011
The government is trying to cow the working class by the sheer scale of the cuts. Two thirds of public-sector bodies are reported to be making job cuts...
24 March 2011
Oppose all cuts in jobs, services, pay and conditions!
United we are strong, divided we will be defeated. The government knows that and is desperate to divide us - public sector from private sector, old from young, benefit claimants from everyone else.....
24 March 2011
Budget fuels determination to fight back!
The chancellor of the exchequer's budget speech yesterday came as no relief at all to the many millions of people who are struggling to make ends meet and who are reeling under the onslaught of the government's austerity measures
Protesters close Vodafone in Wrexham
20 December 2010
Protesters close Vodafone in Wrexham
Saturday 18 December, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year, was a national day of action against corporate tax dodgers...
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