Comment & Analysis
g8: G8 can’t save the planet
The discussions on climate change at the G8 summit in Gleneagles seem doomed before they have even started.
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g8: Make poverty history – fight for a socialist plan
More than 20,000 people die each day in the neo-colonial world because of "extreme poverty".
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g8 summit: Privatising the rain
There are currently more than 2 billion of the world’s poorest people who have no access to clean water or sanitation.
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g8 summit: Privatising the rain
There are currently more than 2 billion of the world’s poorest people who have no access to clean water or sanitation.
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G8: Time is running out to save the planet
The world over there is a scientific consensus that global warming is a real and worsening problem.
World Economy
World Economy: Speculative activity surges in the global economy
One measure of the surge in speculative activity is the sharp rise in foreign exchange (FX) dealing. In September 2004 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published its sixth triennial survey of foreign exchange and […]
World Economy
World economy: Profits soar while wages fall
Seventy-three percent of those who were asked in a national opinion poll were in favour of increasing the top rate of income tax on incomes of greater than £100,000 from 40p in the pound to […]
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G8 summit: Make capitalism history – make socialism our future!
The G8 are eight – we are billions! Join the anti-capitalist protests!
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Scotland: G8 summit
In the run-up to the G8 Summit, to be held in July in Gleneagles, it is as important as ever to raise the question: how can the world’s problems be alleviated?
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scotland: Gleneagles G8 summit in July
The G8 (Group of Eight) is comprised of the leaders of eight of the richest nations in the world: USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and, from 1998, Russia.