Our
lives, those of our children, our health and living are subjected to the whims
of the gambling table, otherwise known as the ‘world financial system’. In what
way can betting on the prices of stock and shares benefit humankind? Rather, it
inevitably leads, at some stage, to crisis, as the blind bets get called in.

Now,
with the crisis of the capitalist system unfolding, the poverty, hunger and
homelessness experienced by some sections of working class people is spreading
to wider and wider layers. This is initially being expressed in foreclosures on
home loans and an increase in homelessness.

Join us for a picket of the US embassy and public meeting on Wednesday,
September 17, in London to defend the Bolivian and Venezuelan
revolutions! Download and print off this A4 leaflet and distribute it as widely as possible.

Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal
income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress.

The study by the Government Accountability Office, said about 68% of foreign
companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate taxes.

"It’s shameful that so many corporations make big profits and pay nothing
to support our country," said
Senator Byron Dorgan.