It wasn't long ago that groups like UK Uncut and Occupy LSX were being smeared by the establishment as "terrorists", on a par with Al-Qaeda, as if the police and sections of the establishment were really too thick to tell the difference between groups who engage in peaceful protest and those who commit indiscriminate murder. Of course no-one in the establishment ever believed that shit, they weren't really that stupid, they were DESPERATE... knowing, even then, that this movement posed a serious threat. The fact that the agenda promoted by UK Uncut is now headline news all over the world in itself proves the effectiveness of the tax justice movement (even if only as a consciousness-raising movement), and, although in practical terms it goes without saying there is still a long way to go, the fact that even thieves like David Cameron, Danny Alexander and Starbucks themselves have been forced to effectively concede the argument proves the protest movement is working. Corporate trolls will post mis-information on progressive websites, trying to demoralise protestors and to smear us as extremists, so it's up to us to take responsibility for and control of how we're perceived, to effectively highlight the links between tax-thefts and public sector cuts and workplace exploitation, and in doing so to de-rail the propaganda put about by corporate tax thieves.

In this context, and while this post is NOT intended as an endorsement of the John Lewis Partnership, nonetheless, as a tax-paying and profit-sharing employee partnership, John Lewis is reporting that public disgust with corporate tax vampires is now boosting their on-line trade by 40%... INCREASE THE PRESSURE...

 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/tax-row-helping-john-lewis-online-sales-172445609--finance.html

"Retailer John Lewis has said it may be seeing the first signs of a consumer backlash against companies consumers believe are trying to avoid tax. Speaking to Sky's Dermot Murnaghan, managing director Andy Street said sales at the firm's online arm have been boosted in the wake of the tax controversy. Mr Street said: "If we look at our online trade, the last three weeks have been really dramatic. The increases there are about 40% year-on-year. That coincides with the observations about paying corporation tax and I think our customers expect John Lewis to be a responsible business in every sense of that. That extends from the conditions in the supply chain through to paying the right amount of corporation tax"."

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/12/503649.html

"Leading tax vampires and corporate scroungers STARBUCKS have agreed, in principle, to pay more tax, but then turned on their poorest employees to recoup any reduction in their profits. On the day that the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee branded their tax scams immoral, Starbucks staff were ordered to sign employment terms which include "the removal of paid lunch breaks and paid sick leave for the first day of illness" and which leave increased salary entitlements frozen"