Category: Robin Hood Tax
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Unite General Secretary says ‘Time to Fix the System’
Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite has written of his support for a Robin Hood Tax. The Robin Hood tax is a simple idea; the financial sector was instrumental in causing the greatest recession in a generation, so it’s about time it paid its fair share in sorting out the mess that has been created.
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Support the Robin Hood Tax – now is the moment!
After years of hard campaigning the Robin Hood Tax has its best chance of implementation. At the start of November, G20 leaders will meet in Cannes, France and could agree to introduce a Robin Hood Tax. Germany and France stand in support but the Conservative-led government and their friends in the city are trying to wreck
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Miliband and Balls need to be more vocal in support of the Robin Hood Tax
By Vaughan Gething AM (Labour and Co-operative, Cardiff South and Penarth) – First published on Left Foot Forward The ‘Robin Hood Tax’ – a tiny tax on financial transactions which could generate billions to fight poverty – may have seemed a far-fetched financial compensation dream only a few years ago. Global debt relief used to be seen
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International Development at #Lab10
Labour Party Conference 2010 saw LCID out in force, popping along to as many events as we could in our t-shirts and signing more people up. Here are a few highlights. First was the election of former Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband as Labour Leader. His personal commitment to the issue was evident when we
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Leadership candidates back the Robin Hood Tax
The Labour Campaign for International Development has supported the Robin Hood Tax campaign for a financial transactions tax from the start. We asked all five leadership candidates their opinion on the Robin Hood Tax when we interviewed them recently. You can watch their answers below, and see all five interviews in full here. To keep
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