The bosses’ Financial Times newspaper’s How To Spend It supplement rushed out a special "bonus issue" this week, in a timely bid to celebrate the wealth of bankers and other City high flyers.
There has been a sharp rise in sales of Socialist Worker during the weeks of the economic crisis as people search for an alternative to the brutal chaos of the market.
Pensions More than seven million people with pension schemes have lost an average of £20,000 this year. This is because their schemes are linked to the stock market.
One aspect of New Labour’s attacks on civil liberties crashed to the ground this week when the government was forced to abandon its plans for interning people for up to 42 days without charge.
A senior police officer has admitted that he tampered with his notes about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian man shot seven times in the head by the police at Stockwell tube station in July 2005.
Hundreds of angry protesters storm the City
This week saw Gordon Brown spending £37 billion of our money on buying up shares in two failing banks – HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland – as part of his staggering £500 billion bailout plan.
Several hundred students and other activists brought the City of London to a standstill in a flash protest on Friday evening.
More than 5,000 London bus workers struck today over pay. The drivers at First Group and Metroline took action as part of a campaign by the Unite union to win a wage of at least £30,000 for drivers across all companies in London.
Hundreds of students and activists are marching on the Bank of England at 4pm today to protest against the massive bailouts financial institutions have received.
Abortion rights campaigners are mobilising to stop the continuing attacks on a woman’s right to choose in Britain. They are also fighting to get those rights extended.
