7 July 2021

Private equity takeover proposals - Usdaw needs to move to a war footing

A bidding war is underway for Morrisons.

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8 October 2014

Correction: Labour's private health links are worse!

Following our article on 'Labour: no real alternative' in last week's issue of the Socialist we received an email from the corporate communications manager of private health company Bupa

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Striking Care UK workers outside the company's Mansion House in Doncaster, 09.08.14, photo Alistair Tice

12 August 2014

Care UK workers to strike for three weeks

"We're Yorkshire folk, we're like a dog with a bone. We won't give up, we'll never surrender."

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19 December 2012

Comet owners walk away with £ millions

Over Christmas and New Year 2008/2009, Woolworths, the long-established high street retail chain, folded - a victim of the capitalist economic recession...

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12 October 2011

Fox takes cronyism to new level

Fox by name, fox by nature it seems. For despite the mounting and overwhelming evidence of cronyism against Tory MP Liam Fox, the defence minister remains in his post

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Southern Cross Healthcare's private residential home care in crisis, photo B Severn

2 June 2011

Southern Cross - Social care on the brink

Southern Cross Healthcare is on the brink of collapse. This company provides residential care to 31,000 people and has 44,000 employees

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28 June 2007

"Pottsamoney" put on the spot

Private equity: SOCIALIST PARTY deputy general secretary HANNAH SELL was on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC radio last week, debating the infamous 'private equity' schemes with Hank Potts, equity strategist at Barclays Private Clients...

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21 June 2007

Workers must fight Ford sell-off plans

Land Rover/Jaguar: OVER 18,000 car workers directly employed in Jaguar and Land Rover are furious that their owner Ford is threatening their livelihoods by putting the businesses up for sale...

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14 June 2007

Bosses' bonuses

TELECOMS GIANT Cable and Wireless (C&W) top bosses want to scrap a cap on executive bonuses imposed last year that 'limited' executive extras to £20 million...

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7 June 2007

The fat cat and the 'cleaning lady'

NICHOLAS FERGUSON is chairman of SVC Capital, the firm that built Europe's biggest private equity fund, "almost from scratch"...

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29 March 2007

A simple conclusion from a 'simplification' budget

Editorial: THE DAILY Mirror declared triumphantly: "Historic 2p income tax cut that will make Gordon PM"...

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22 March 2007

Private equity deals - fight free-market vultures

Editorial: THERE IS a frenzy of takeovers by private equity firms, part of a world-wide surge of company mergers and takeovers by banks, hedge funds and big corporations...

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