Category: economic justice

The Great Pay Robbery

Here’s why the government’s proposals on executive pay won’t work – and why we need a maximum wage.

The poorest taxpayers are subsidising the richest people in Europe: and this spending will remain uncut until at least 2020.

Despite the crisis, it’s still socialism for the 1%, capitalism for the rest.

Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.

The Corporation of the City of London has harmed you more than you know.

If this analysis is correct, a Great Depression is all but inevitable.

The government is burning the money that could save public services.

Now is the time to start planning for a new economy, not dependent on growth.

The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.

The movements opposing the British government need a set of aims: here’s my attempt at a first draft.

Does the BBC’s business editor need a crash course in tax?

Shocking new financial manouevres by the British government show who it’s really working for.

You thought elections counted for something? Look at what wasn’t in the manifesto.

A leaked document, published exclusively on monbiot.com, shows that the government has been secretly protecting bankers’ bonuses.

This is the text of the leaked document referred to in Bonus Balls.

According to the latest smear campaign, I’m the new Howard Hughes. Sorry to disappoint you.

The government has abandoned its sustainable homes policy – by redefining zero.

Many PFI deals were undemocratic and against the national interest. It’s time we stopped honouring them.

How Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs surrendered to the tax avoiders

The economic crisis is the disaster the Conservatives have been praying for. Now they can reshape the economy on corporate lines.