From the horse’s mouth: the State monopoly of violence
As the Financial Times generally sees itself as the in-house newspaper of the boss class here in the UK, then it’s sometimes worthwhile
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Capitalism
They make record profits, you pay more and work for peanuts
Yesterday and on Monday, we looked at the impact of rising prices on working class people, particularly on the poorest and most vulnerable.
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Yet more price rises while the rich still profit
As we said in our recent article, Food, rent or heat? Fight back against rising prices, the current wave of massive price rises
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Food, rent or heat? Fight back against rising prices!
The current and previous governments’ have made continual attacks on the poorest and most powerless sections of the UK population. The rise of
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Exploitation of young workers
An inside view of zero hours contracts for young people A young ACG member investigates… With 3.62 million young people being employed, and
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Fuel crisis is a capitalist crisis
The increase in energy costs has hit people hard, especially those on low incomes. Already thousands die because they cannot afford to heat
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The rich get richer, the poor get poorer
During the pandemic, billionaires have increased their wealth by $5.5 trillion. At least nine new billionaires have appeared, growing rich on the profits
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Steak restaurant highlights the obscenity of capitalism
Nusret Gökçe, a Turkish cook and butcher became famous on the Internet a few years ago with shots of him flamboyantly sprinkling salt
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Quote of the Week: Alexander Berkman
“Think it over and see if it is not the law itself, the government which really creates crime by compelling people to live
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The Real Scroungers
During this sickening time of the Pandora Papers, mutliple crises, Covid cronyism, Branson, Musk and Bezos flying into space on profits they’ve amassed
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