By Elaine Brunskill Take the wealth off the 1% Elaine Brunskill, Socialist Party National Committee If you save every single penny you earn for the next 52 years you could become one of the richest 10% in the UK. Mind, to do this you would need to be an average wage earner on £37,430 a year. Oh! Also, living rent ...
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Rich List billionaires: Take the wealth off the super-rich
By Lindsey Morgan If you’re in the mood for nausea, there’s nothing more sickening than The Sunday Times Rich List. The wealth of the richest 350 people in Britain stands at £772.8 billion, and that’s despite dropping 3% since last year as the world economy has been flung into uncertain waters by increased protectionism and underlying economic crisis. The slight ...
Read More »2020 – a year which drove home the catastrophic failures of capitalism
By Hannah Sell, General Secretary of the Socialist Party The world was united in misery in 2020. Too many deaths from the pandemic, job losses, pay cuts and poverty were the experience in virtually every country on the planet. Britain, as the year ends, is leading the world in a new surge in the virus; with the highest ever level ...
Read More »Robber barons own $6trn
Take the wealth off the 1% Come to Socialism 2017! By Andrew Carss, The Socialist November 2 2017 The combined wealth of the world’s billionaires has now reached an eye-watering $6 trillion. Up by nearly a fifth from last year, vast profits wringed from the workers of the world are concentrated in ever fewer hands. The most powerful force in ...
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