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communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist)

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Vulture capitalism highlights

  • Social wage / Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill

    Local councils across Britain are going bankrupt, leading to ever deeper cuts in services that have already been stripped to the bone.

    13 Mar 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt

    Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.

    18 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Cambian Childcare: End this chattel slavery

    How many more horrendous revelations do we have to endure before action is taken to end the abuse of vulnerable children by profiteers?

    1 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Fraud office’s ‘deferred prosecution’ trick shields top bosses from legal action

    The lords of finance capital have long made it clear that they are above the law: now it’s being implicitly accepted by those who supposedly ‘regulate’ their activities.

    15 Jul 2021 ,
  • Industry / Greensill debacle: the door keeps revolving

    The collapse of this particular debt-laden finance house is drawing public attention to some very uncomfortable truths.

    3 May 2021 ,
  • Industry / Cameron’s hand caught trapped in the till as Greensill collapses

    The collapse of yet another debt-laden house of cards has shone a light on the revolving door between career politicians and the corporations they serve.

    27 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Industry / With ‘saviours’ like Gupta, who needs enemies?

    If you are rich enough, you can get richer still without spending a penny; it is the workers who pay when the vultures’ schemes collapse.

    9 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate

    When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.

    8 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Chester Road closure: No to GKN’s industrial vandalism!

    A 270-year-old British manufacturer is being slowly dismantled by asset-stripping vultures, destroying vital jobs and engineering capacity in the process.

    4 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / GameStop stops Wall Street

    Activist amateur traders ‘driven by righteous anger’ very nearly broke at least one hedge vulture’s bank, causing panic on the stock exchange.

    2 Feb 2021 , 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
  • Economy / Water privateers: ‘Doing what’s in the best interests of shareholders’

    As Britain’s utilities are looted by shareholders, workers are forced to pay astronomical bills for deteriorating services.

    29 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Edinburgh Woollen Mill: the vultures circle

    Thousands of workers look set to lose their jobs, but the man whose fortune they made will have no trouble hanging onto his millions.

    19 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / City spivs raid the public purse

    The revolving door between private sector consultancies and the civil service continues to spin.

    16 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Education / Marketisation of services to vulnerable children exposes true values of liberal democracy

    Never has the gap between human and capitalist logic been so glaringly apparent.

    15 Nov 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
  • Social wage / Southern Cross: vulture capitalists still getting fat on the care home racket

    The problems in our care homes are rooted in privatisation and began well before the pandemic arrived to bring them to national attention.

    28 Oct 2020 ,
  • Economy / Vultures circle over Royal Mail

    Britain’s privatised mail service is likely to be broken down into ever-smaller parts as investors peel of the most profitable parts one by one.

    21 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / FT spills the beans on private equity scam

    The super-rich are indulging in an orgy of speculation using the ‘free money’ of low-interest debt. Who pays?

    23 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Hedge funds flourish on covid misery

    As the vaccine race heats up, holders of the right pharma shares are making a killing out of insider trading.

    2 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction

    Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.

    29 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Go Outdoors ‘rescued’ – for now

    Financial fancy footwork may allow the chain’s owners to sidestep onerous lease conditions as high street footfall plunges.

    2 Jul 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Dilemma of the covid crash vultures

    Having maximised indebtedness in order to avoid paying taxes, vulture capitalists now find they are missing out on state aid during the crisis.

    29 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / City leeches celebrate the demise of Thomas Cook

    Financial gamblers in the City are playing with loaded dice, deliberately pushing companies over the edge in order to get paid.

    6 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Britain / Bury FC: a victim of capitalism

    One more reason for workers to burn with indignation against a social order that can never be made to serve their interests.

    15 Sep 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / British Steel: overproduction crisis claims another scalp

    As thousands of workers lose their jobs, the vultures of Greybull Capital are standing at the front of the queue for ‘reimbursement’.

    3 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Editorial: The housing crisis

    The horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in London, which has killed so many working-class people, demonstrates the terrible reality of housing in Britain today.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • USA / Obamacare: going, going …

    Assessing the impact of ‘Trumpcare’.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • 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

Vulture capitalism topics

  • Austerity
  • Inflation
  • Privatisation
  • Tax
  • Vulture capitalism
  • Debt
  • DPUK
  • Enough is Enough
  • Hunger
  • Inequality
  • Poverty
  • Utilities
  • Eastern Europe
  • Fascism
  • Ukraine war
  • US imperialism
  • Care system
  • Banks
  • Corruption
  • Justice system
  • 2020 crash
  • Football
  • British manufacturing
  • Overproduction crisis
  • Steel industry
  • Covid-19
  • Drive to war
  • Benefits
  • Children
  • Aviation industry
  • Birmingham
  • Car industry
  • Retail sector
  • Pensions
  • Unemployment
  • Civil service
  • Consultancies
  • Schools
  • Blacklisting
  • Capitalist crisis
  • Carillion
  • Construction industry
  • Outsourcing
  • Postal service
  • Big pharma
  • Marxism
  • Friedrich Engels
  • George Galloway
  • European Union
  • Jeremy Corbyn
  • Housing crisis
  • Donald Trump
  • NHS
  • Social democracy
  • Trade war

Vulture capitalism video

  • Ukraine / Doug Valentine on 70 years of the CIA in Ukraine

    The CIA’s criminal behaviour in Ukraine has paved the way for the interests of US imperialism since the end of the second world war.

    4 Apr 2022,
  • Capitalist crisis / Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living

    If 2020 has taught us anything it is that the current economic and political system is blocking our ability to solve humanity’s urgent problems.

    17 Mar 2021,

Vulture capitalism theory

  • Sport / What can the European Super League teach us about monopoly capitalism?

    The monopolisation of football is teaching workers all over again some of the lessons taught to us by Lenin over a century ago.

    2 Jun 2021, Proletarian

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