British Pensions – Why the attacks and How do we stop them? Pay more! Work longer! Get less! This is the stark and uncompromising message on pensions that the Tory- dominated government is sending to millions of working class people. In the public sector, six million state employees will find that the expected reward of a half-decent pension in exchange for low wages during their working life is now being taken away. In the private sector of the economy 87% of final salary schemes have been abolished as being “unaffordable”, the latest one being Unilever in April. Not content with attacking directly the living standards of the working class with job losses, wage freezes or even wage cuts, the government is also reducing living standards indirectly by cutting the social wage that includes public services and pensions.
Britain: Splits in the Establishment: a harbinger of deepening crisis Over the recent period, splits and divisions have opened up within sections of the ruling class, which reflect a deepening unease over the crisis and the effects it is having on British society.
Britain: Phone hacking scandal rocks establishment The phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British establishment in the past week is not only bad news for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World and its parents NewsCorp and News International, who have now had to sacrifice their main paper, it is bad news for the politicians, the police and the capitalist class as a whole.
