Comments on: Red Alert: What went wrong in the capitalist casino

By: Fundamental Human Rights

Fundamental Human Rights — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:48:28 +0000

[...] These words are from the 1945 Labour manifesto Let Us Face The Future which brilliantly identified the very same crisis which is now described as a “credit crunch” as if it were a mere hiccup in an otherwise wonderful neo-liberal globalised world which could be corrected with a vast subsidy from the taxpayers to put the Wall Street casino and its partners worldwide back into profit. It reminded me of the fact that when slavery was abolished it was the slave owners, and not the slaves, who received compensation from the government of the day. Read more … [...]

By: John conway

John conway — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:54:29 +0000

It is so sad to see a Labour government so ready to help help out the rich bankers when you consider how the same New Labour government ignored the plight of the poor people who lost out when the FarePack company went bust. It appears new labour has a policy of ‘designer socialism’ which is only applicable to the rich.

By: Protests In London / Tony Benn

Protests In London / Tony Benn — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:22:25 +0000

[...] Tony Benn on the Capitalist Casino. For the first time in my life, the public are to the left of a Labour government and common sense points us in a direction quite different from the one we have been following since 1979 when Thatcher set out to destroy the trade unions, cripple local authorities and privatise our public assets which we need now more than ever. [...]

By: SOCIALIST UNITY » TONY BENN ON THE CAPITALIST CASINO

SOCIALIST UNITY » TONY BENN ON THE CAPITALIST CASINO — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:27:12 +0000

[...] Benn in Tribune argues the credit crunch is the result of too much economic power ending up in too few [...]

By: Tax Research UK / My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 10th

Tax Research UK / My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 10th — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:00:32 +0000

[...] Tribune » Blog Archive » Red Alert: What went wrong in the capitalist casino – Tony Benn: always worth reading [...]