Ahead of the report by the parliamentary commission on banking standards, due to report back this week on the future of RBS, Unite, which represents workers at RBS and 120,000 workers altogether in financial services, has called on the government to commit to the full nationalisation of RBS in which the state currently has an […]
Posts Tagged ‘Public Ownership’
Cameron response to private energy market failure is absurd
Oct 19th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Soaring energy prices, as 4 of the Big 6 energy companies demand huge price rises this winter (four times the rate of inflation), are making waves in the political sphere. Cameron has just said: “Switching is one of the best ways to get energy bills down”. Obviously he’s never tried to do it himself because […]
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Repsol-YPF: the left and nationalisation today
Apr 18th, 2012 by David Osler.It has been a long time since people used to get up at Labour Party meetings and casually demand the nationalisation of the top 200 monopolies, even in speeches supposedly addressing the need for better traffic light provision in Leytonstone.
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Some basic demands the left must start to make
Dec 29th, 2011 by James Bloodworth.Ever since the inception of New Labour, the left in Britain has been characterised by timidity when faced with an electorate ready to embrace change. The reluctance to break with a right-wing status quo has not been confined solely to the British labour movement either, but has become a commonplace right across the contemporary European […]
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The left wing alternative to nationalisation
Jan 27th, 2011 by Owen Jones.If ‘typical Labour left policies’ had ever (bizarrely) turned up on ITV’s Family Fortunes, I’d place a pretty safe bet that ‘nationalisation’ would top the poll. But there is something deeply ironic about this, because nationalisation – as conceived and implemented by post-war Labour governments – had very little to do with the Labour left.
