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"Fat Cat Wednesday" Reveals Staggering Pay Gap Between British Executives and Workers
Findings from the High Pay Centre show jaw-dropping levels of inequality in Britain, where executives earning £1,000 per hour exceeded the average U.K. annual salary of £28,000 by lunchtime on Jan. 3 – dubbed Fat Cat Wednesday.
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150 London Students Launch Rent Strike Demanding Lower Housing Costs
Students at University College London announced this week that they'd be withholding a total of £250,000 in rent payments unless their school reduced rent costs by 40%.
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A Unifying, Mass Movement Grows Against Austerity In Manchester and Across UK
Privatization of Britain's National Health Service has soared by 500% in the past year – one reason that tens of thousands of protesters are in the streets voicing outrage about Tory government policies.
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Nationwide Anti-Austerity Protests Reveal Magnitude of Inequality Anguish In Britain
A quarter-million protesters gathered outside the Bank of England and march to Parliament to protest austerity.
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Anti-Austerity Protests Draw Tens of Thousands Rallying Across U.K.
Marching under the banner End Austerity Now, protesters denounced public sector cuts, the treatment of the disabled and the vulnerable through welfare cuts, and the privatization of the National Health Service.
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People's Assembly and the Anti-Austerity Rebellion Seizing Britain
On Saturday, tens of thousands will march through London, Glasgow and across the U.K. to demand an end to austerity and increases in spending and investment.
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A New Dawn of Dissent: Britain Responds to Conservative Victory with Wave of Protests
As election resentment gathers speed in the U.K., reinvigorated protest efforts are emerging as well.
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Does Emergence of Scottish Power Signal the End of the United Kingdom?
Britain’s election shows it's no longer a united kingdom, that Scottish independence is increasingly likely – and that the new Conservative government will only further fracture an already deeply unequal society.
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It's Official: Living Standards Have Dropped In Britain. So Who Will Voters Elect?
According to a recent Trades Union Congress report, the Tory-led government not only failed to deliver promises to raise living standards – but is instead directly to blame for the decline of those living standards.
