Once again we see laid bare the true face of capitalist power. Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has stood before a gathering of Britain’s private equity fatcats and promised to sweep aside what remains of state regulation. She…
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Once again the masks have slipped from the faces of the capitalist profiteers, and once again the working masses are shown the true nature of capitalist “innovation.” Meta, that empire of digital surveillance, owned by the billionaire Zuckerberg, has been…
Once again we see in Britain the age-old tactics of the ruling class: to divert the anger of the masses away from the exploiters and against the most vulnerable. The anger against asylum hotels, the furious agitation against the presence…
Households in England and Wales will see their typical annual water bills increase by an average of £86 starting in April, the industry regulator Ofwat has announced. The hike will be most significant in the first year, with smaller increases…
A Texas federal court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on Tuesday December 3rd, blocking the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its associated regulations, which mandate U.S. business entities to report stakeholder information to the Treasury Department. Judge Amos L. Mazzant…
The US senate has approved a bill that will see TikTok banned in the US, unless its Chinese owner ByteDance sells its stake in the US arm of the company. The bill has widespread support in the senate, with 79…
From Monday the 8th of April, 5,000 nail technicians across the UK are set to raise their prices simultaneously. But this isn’t the usual coordinated industry price rise designed to fleece consumers. Nail technicians in the UK have been working…
McDonald’s has a Middle East problem. Revenues are down at stores across the region due to the ongoing boycott of the brand. The reason? The owner of the Israeli franchises responded to Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestine by offering free…
Property prices are up 1.6 percent since March of last year, despite having fallen by 0.2 percent in the last month. Buying a typical home on an average salary of £35,000 today would mean that you pay out 40 percent…
This week, Thames Water has said that it needs to increase customer bills by 40 percent to pay for the necessary upgrades to its infrastructure. Thames Water, like other water companies in Britain, has been under the spotlight recently for…