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10 June 2009
JAMES PURNELL, government minister at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), resigned last week - one of an increasing number of ministerial resignations from Gordon Brown's disintegrating government...
10 June 2009
Compulsion: AN 'OVERSIGHT', a 'mistake' or being 'badly advised' are the typical lame excuses offered by expenses grabbing MPs. Now, Gerald Kaufman MP blames Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Thatcher was defeated on the issue of the poll tax, photo Militant
13 May 2009
Despite being "too young to remember the anti-poll tax battle", Bob Severn (The Socialist issue 578) rightly criticises the middle-class editors of a middle-class paper, the Independent, writes Rob Windsor, Socialist councillor and former anti-poll tax federation secretary, Coventry.
29 April 2009
Budget 2009 - debts passed to all of us
"Get ready for dirty hospitals and crumbling schools" warned a journalist following the government budget last week...
Workers occupied Visteon Enfield, photo Paul Mattsson
22 April 2009
Big business parties attack our services: Whether a Labour or a Tory government is elected at the next general election, either will try to make extensive public spending cuts, writes Judy Beishon.
22 April 2009
Ireland: Budget savages workers
Feature: The Central Bank of Ireland says the Irish economy contracted by 3% last year and will contract by 7% this year and another 3% next year...
The battle against the poll tax, photo by Dave Sinclair
14 April 2009
The battle to defeat the Poll Tax
A landmark in working class struggle TWENTY YEARS ago the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher introduced the hated poll tax, first in Scotland to be followed one year later in England and Wales...
8 April 2009
Egyptian regime: 'Scared that independent unions will succeed; scared a revolution will happen'
ONE OF the most important recent developments in the struggle of Egyptian workers for decent living standards and democratic rights was the formation of the first independent trade union (syndicate) for over 50 years, last December...
25 March 2009
JOURNALISTS AND other media workers' jobs are at risk as 1,000 job cuts are planned at the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) national and local publications, writes Roger Shrives.
25 March 2009
Housing crisis: "THE HOUSING crisis is now so great that, unless dramatic action is taken, it may take decades for the nation to recover....
19 March 2009
IN JANUARY, two similar cases came before Liverpool Magistrate's Court. They both concerned women who had claimed benefits they weren't entitled to. Both were married to security guards; both had several...
18 February 2009
Regulators resign over financial meltdown
GORDON BROWN carelessly managed to lose two key banking advisers last week. Sir James Crosby, former chief executive of HBOS bank, (which together with its merger partner Lloyds got £37 billion-plus emergency...
3 December 2008
A Christmas message from the Unite leadership
Good news of great joy: A message from Unite the union to its members: "The return of real Labour? A welcome move towards progressive politics and Labour's natural constituency", writes Mick Cotter.
25 November 2008
Alistair Darling's pre Budget Report: Pain now, pay later
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Alistair Darling - learning about capitalism? cartoon by Suz |
29 October 2008
OIL GIANT BP sparked widespread anger when it announced a record profit of £6.4 billion for the third quarter of 2008...
8 October 2008
Responsibility for the 'age of irresponsibility'
Comment: For years opinion-formers have been mobilised in defence of capitalism. They have argued that it is not fatally flawed, that it is only the criminally reckless elements ripping off the system that created...
10 September 2008
Scotland council tax to be scrapped
The SNP government has set out its proposal to scrap the discredited council tax and replace it with a local income tax (LIT), writes Brian Smith and Philip Stott.
23 July 2008
Car taxes add to inflation misery
CHANCELLOR ALISTAIR Darling is postponing his proposed 2p in the pound fuel tax rise scheduled for October, writes Mark Pickersgill.
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'...
18 June 2008
According to press reports, the strike by tanker drivers at multinational giant Shell's depots has concluded with a deal. It was 100% solid at the Shell Haven site in Coryton, Essex. Drivers were angry about their treatment from Shell and the contractor Hoyer. A driver on the picket line, Gary, spoke to The Socialist.
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