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Pensions highlights

  • France / French workers fight for their pension and retirement rights

    Militant fighting spirit is on display in abundance in France. What is now needed is class-conscious leadership and vision.

    18 Mar 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

    This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.

    7 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Demise of RPI: another attack on workers’ pensions

    Why should our right to a dignified old age depend on the vagaries of stock-exchange gamblers and government statisticians?

    5 Dec 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Debenhams, Arcadia: Making workers pay for the crisis

    Tens of thousands are set to lose jobs and suffer pension cuts, once again making workers pay the price for capitalism’s failings.

    4 Dec 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State

    A meticulously researched exposure of outsourcing and corruption that falls short of finding either the true culprit or the way out for impoverished workers.

    3 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Railway pensions under threat

    It is the bosses’ responsibility to see to it that deferred wages are paid in full; why are workers expected to take the hit?

    23 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / FT spills the beans on the great pensions rip-off

    Not content with stealing workers’ unpaid labour today, the capitalists are conspiring to steal their right to a dignified retirement tomorrow.

    20 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • France / Macron wages war on French workers, making pension ‘reforms’ by subterfuge

    Striking workers were duped into moving their battle into parliament. Can they regain the momentum they had on the streets before?

    16 Mar 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Lecturers rise against pay cuts and pensions robbery

    The marketisation of education: staff are being sweated so that universities can make fat profits.

    21 Feb 2020 ,
  • France / Macron is in trouble – and so is his EU-backed austerity project

    The inspirational determination of the French working class is starting to cause cracks in the resolve of the presidential gang.

    10 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Europe / How the EU is demolishing pensions

    We need to stand together in resisting the drive to make workers pay for the economic crisis of capitalism.

    2 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Defend railway pensions!

    Workers have a right to their deferred wages in retirement and to a dignified old age after a lifetime of work.

    27 Jan 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Firefighters victory forces government retreat on public sector pensions

    The FBU has won its case to get former pension rights restored, and the case has wide implications.

    19 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • France / French class war continuing as neither side looks ready to back down

    Macron continues to push EU-backed pensions attack while unions have called for a general strike and total oil refinery blockade.

    10 Jan 2020 ,
  • France / French strikes expand and deepen as more workers join the fray

    A class war is underway in France and the workers show no sign of backing down. Victoire aux grévistes!

    19 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • France / Support the French strikers!

    France’s militant unions are joining forces with yellow vest activists in a serious challenge to Macron’s EU-backed assault on living standards.

    10 Dec 2019 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Railway pensions under attack

    As profiteering franchise bidders haggle with the government over contract terms, workers’ hard-earned pensions are once more under threat.

    8 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / University of Manchester support staff to strike against pension attacks

    Cleaners, caterers, security and admin staff are fighting to defend their right to a dignified retirement.

    17 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / FE lecturers ballot over derisory pay offer

    It is not the job of workers to square the accounts of their employers.

    17 Oct 2018 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Theft of steelworkers’ pensions

    Successful campaigners lose up to half their entitlement, shafted after all by caveats in the small print.

    9 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Universities union leader Sally Hunt sidesteps members’ censure motion

    Trade union 'democracy' in action.

    19 Jun 2018 ,
  • Industry / GKN takeover brings mayhem to thousands of working-class lives

    Unelected shareholders and executives continue to make decisions affecting thousands of families, revealing the true nature of the capitalist system.

    26 May 2018 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / University workers sold down the river

    With friends like the University and College Union leadership, who needs enemies?

    14 May 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Why lecturers need to remain steadfast in defence of their pensions

    Plans to rob workers of their deferred wages and replace them with a slashed pot totally dependent on market fluctuations must be resisted.

    11 Mar 2018 ,
  • Leaflets / Hands off lecturers’ pensions

    A decent pension for all workers is a right, not a privilege.

    1 Mar 2018 ,
  • Trade unions / Postal union caves in on pensions

    The CWU's failure to stand up to the marketisation of pensions will affect more than just postal workers.

    15 Feb 2018 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Tata: the vultures circle

    While the capitalist crisis continues to destroy workers' lives, our union leaders are still trying to push us down the blind alley of support for British imperialism.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / BHS workers facing loss of jobs and pensions

    This is not the ‘unacceptable face’ of capitalism; capitalism itself is unacceptable.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Society / Letter: We need a council tax rebellion

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian

Pensions topics

  • Emmanuel Macron
  • European Union
  • Gilet jaunes
  • Pensions
  • PRCF
  • Protests and strikes
  • Debt
  • Hunger
  • Inequality
  • Inflation
  • Liz Truss
  • Overproduction crisis
  • Poverty
  • Rishi Sunak
  • Utilities
  • 2020 crash
  • Retail sector
  • Vulture capitalism
  • Blacklisting
  • Capitalist crisis
  • Carillion
  • Construction industry
  • Consultancies
  • Corruption
  • Outsourcing
  • Railways
  • RMT
  • UCU
  • Universities
  • Workers rights
  • Anti-union laws
  • Privatisation
  • FBU
  • Austerity
  • Civil rights
  • Unison
  • Steel industry
  • Unite the Union
  • Arms industry
  • British manufacturing
  • Car industry
  • Mergers and takeovers
  • CWU
  • Postal service
  • Social democracy
  • Trade war
  • Unemployment
  • Letters

Pensions video

  • Disputes / New deal offered to striking university staff is no deal at all

    The latest proposals are simply an attempt to take the fire out of the strikers and wear down their resistance. Workers' reply? No capitulation!

    16 Mar 2018,

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