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British Water supplies are in the hands of foreign owned monopoly companies who are enjoying a cash bonanza while our infrastructure crumbles. If the ridiculously high profits made by these companies in the last few years had been channelled into developing a national water grid and other infrastructure projects we would no longer be facing a water shortage.
As it stands, if the winter of 06/07 has the same low rainfall in the South East as it did last year, then by next summer much of SE England will be
using standpipes.
Severn Water, for example, has seen a 18% rise in profits as complaints against the company rose by 55% and it was investigated for providing false data to OFWAT. And since it acquired Thames Water in 2000, RWE (its German parent company) has extracted around £1 billion pounds in dividends to shareholders!
FIGHT BACK with a Nationalise Water! badge, available from Bellman Books, 78 Seymour Avenue, London N17 8EB, price 50p each, or £4 for 10. Please make cheques payable to "WORKERS".
Do you have any old labour movement and political badges in odd containers and drawers? Put them to good use and send them to the CPBML – we'll sell them at labour movement events during the year to raise money for the Party. Please send them to:
Read it for yourself and find out why it must be opposed (and there are moves to resurrect it despite the "No" votes).
A copy of the
EU Constitution is now available on our web site. It is long (almost 350 pages) - you can either read online or download (as a 700KB pdf file). Don't forget to have a look at our Focus Area on the EU Constitution (see menu to the left) for an analysis of the issues. If you prefer an annotated version of the EU Constitution or parts related to specific issues then try www.euabc.com
Let Britain know what you think. “No to the EU Constitution” stickers are now available free of charge from WORKERS. Just send a self-addressed A4 envelope and two first class stamps to:
In commemoration of his life, Reg Birch: engineer, trade unionist, communist has been published... read more
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