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8 January 2020
Shell pays £0 corporation tax, and plans huge hike in fossil output
Faced with increasing scrutiny worldwide, oil giant Shell has revealed it paid no UK corporation tax in 2018. This is despite Shell also earning nearly £557 million in pre-tax profits in the UK over that year, with global pre-tax profits being $35.6 billion.
4 September 2019
What strategy can end the retail jobs massacre?
The last few years have seen swathes of closures of shops across the UK as whole chains have collapsed while others close considerable numbers of stores.
31 July 2019
Build a working-class movement to force an election
Johnson is keen to present himself as a representative of ordinary people - but his policy announcements are anti-worker through and through
15 May 2019
Take the wealth off the super-rich
The top 1,000 wealthiest individuals and families in Britain are sitting on a record £771.3 billion, up £47.8 billion in a year. This astonishing fact is in this year's Sunday Times Rich List.
2 May 2019
The significance of the anti-poll tax movement
Following an article in the Guardian by Matthew Taylor titled 'Extinction Rebellion protesters to stand in European elections', Coventry Socialist Party member Dave Nellist responded with a letter to the Guardian
17 April 2019
During the campaign against the Poll Tax, we used to say that the tax was unfair because a lord in his manor was expected to pay the same as a dustman down the road.
3 April 2019
End Tory cold cruelty: life under austerity in Merthyr
Scrap Universal Credit now: Merthyr has received a bad press as the "benefit capital of Britain". The Mirror newspaper pointed out the average male life expectancy on one of the estates is lower than Haiti's. But it's a friendly town.
20 March 2019
End austerity. Fight for a living wage!
The chancellor's spring statement signaled a continued squeeze on low-income families.
13 March 2019
It's one world for us and another for the super-rich especially billionaire tax avoiders!
6 February 2019
Billionaires avoid paying and even talking about tax! Take the wealth off the 1%
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman went viral by putting the cat among the pigeons at billionaires get together Davos in Switzerland recently
5 December 2018
France: mass demonstrations force president to back down
This movement, the expression of accumulated anger, brings together many who have voted very different ways in recent elections
21 November 2018
Save the high street: public ownership, not ghost malls
This year has been a bad year for the retail sector. About 14 shops are closing a day, a net loss of 1,123 from Britain's main high streets in the first half of this year, according to accountants PwC.
7 November 2018
Tories out - we need socialism!
We need socialism. That will be the central case presented on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th November at Socialism 2018 - a weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party.
12 October 2018
New anti-poll tax type revolt needed today
A letter sent to the Guardian by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe.
10 October 2018
The murky world of the 'Big Four' accountancy firms
The murky world of accounting is not easy to follow but it certainly reveals a lot about big business
18 September 2018
Big drugs companies dodge £3 billion pounds in tax
Big pharmaceutical companies may be dodging up to £3 billon in tax, contributing to crises in health systems worldwide, including our NHS
12 September 2018
10 years since the financial crash - the socialist answer to capitalist crisis
On 15 September at a secret London venue top bankers who were part of Lehman Brothers will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their bank's 2008 collapse with "cocktails and canapes".
22 August 2018
Bosses' pay up a fifth while workers' pay falls ...
The average worker would take four lifetimes to earn what the average FTSE 100 chief executive makes in one year.
8 August 2018
Tax-dodging tech bosses make billons ... while 6m workers fear the scrapheap
Nationalise the big tech firms: Every ten seconds, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes the median salary of one of his employees: $28,000
11 July 2018
600 more retail jobs on the line: workers must not pay for the bosses' high street crunch!
Among the latest victims are almost 600 retail workers employed by Calvetron Brands, many in department stores. Hardly a day goes by in 2018 without more news of woes on the high street.
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