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26 May 2020
Coronavirus pandemic news in brief
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is launching a bailout scheme called 'Project Birch' to prevent the collapse of key big businesses
7 February 2018
Capita in crisis: bring all outsourcers back in-house
Shares in outsourcing giant Capita have collapsed following the company's profit warning to shareholders. This follows shortly after its competitor Carillion sank into liquidation, and underlines further the fragile state of British capitalism.
23 August 2017
Amazon tax halves as revenues soar - nationalise now!
Tech giant Amazon paid 50% less tax in the UK this year compared to last year despite the company's turnover rising by 54%
16 November 2016
Socialism 2016: Putting socialism on the agenda
Struggle, internationalism and socialism, these ideas - and how powerful they can be in action - electrified the magnificent rallies and workshops at Socialism 2016
13 May 2015
The richest tenth of the UK's population pay 35% of their income (not wealth) in tax. The poorest tenth pay 43%
21 April 2015
TUSC v broadcasters and banksters
"I have been looking for a party I could believe in ... after tonight's broadcast I think I've found it", said one trade unionist
4 September 2013
Don't fall for the shares-for-rights scam
The Con-Dems' shares-for-rights scheme came into effect on 1 September. The TUC is warning that as well as taking away basic employment rights, the scheme could cost taxpayers £1 billion, writes Ronnie Job.
17 October 2012
Osborne's 'shares' plan threatens rights
Fancy a few free shares in the company you work for? Well David Cameron's party for the aspirational privileged announced at its conference this week a policy that apparently could make budding capitalists of us all
Campaigners against youth unemployment from all over Wales converged on the Welsh Assembly on Wednesday to highlight the scourge of youth unemployment in Wales. , photo Sarah Mayo
17 February 2010
Wales: New challenges for socialists
Socialist Party Wales recently held a very successful conference in Swansea that discussed future developments in Wales...
19 November 2008
'We're not taking these job cuts'
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Super-rich bailed out by public purse while the rest of us are sinking, photo Suz squashdonkey.co.uk |
2 October 2008
What is short-selling and will the ban have any effect?
UK stock markets: THE UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned short-selling on certain shares until January 2009, "to guard against further instability in the financial sector", writes Fiona Pashazadeh.
1 June 2006
World economy: IN THE second week of May there was a convulsion in the world financial system. Shortly after rising to near-peak levels, shares fell sharply on world stock exchanges, especially in so-called 'emerging markets' like India and Turkey. Lynn Walsh examines these events and exposes the instability of the global capitalist system.
9 June 2005
Pakistan: Strike resists Telecom privatisation
ONLY WEEKS before the G8 summit, Pakistan telecom workers, through all-out struggle, have shown how to fight privatisation - one element of the 'neo-liberal' policies promoted by the likes of Bush and Blair...
19 May 2005
Football: Fans protest at billionaire’s takeover
ABOUT 2,000 men, women and young people came out on 12 May - some still in their work clothes or school uniforms...
19 May 2005
Royal Mail privatisation threat after workers deliver record profits
ROYAL MAIL bosses are planning to borrow £2 billion from the government so that they can partly privatise the company by giving shares to the workforce...
6 December 2003
Longbridge: Phoenix Directors Feather Their Own Nests
The businessmen who bought the BMW car factory in Longbridge, Birmingham and supposedly saved thousands of jobs in the West Midlands, are to be investigated by the House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee for their governance of the company, writes Clive Walder, Birmingham Socialist Party.
18 October 2003
World economy: Will There Be A Recovery?
CAN US capitalism pull the world economy out of its present stagnation? Japan has been stuck at near-zero growth for over ten years...
12 January 2001
What We Think: THE BELL is tolling for the decade-long US economic boom. With all the US economic indicators showing signs of slowdown, US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's surprise cut in US interest rates...
2 June 2000
THROUGHOUT THE 1990s, investors in shares just assumed that share prices would go ever upwards. But in recent months all the froth of the 'booming' internet companies - known collectively as dotcoms...
2 June 2000
Stock markets: A Giant Gambling den
Analysis: WHEN TV news bulletins try to explain financial matters they tend to lose their audience in a complex fog of FTSEs, Nasdaqs, trade deficits and so on...
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