At least 11 percent of all Canadians, 11.5 percent of children, and more than 25 percent of all “unattached individuals” under the age of 64 are living in poverty, according to a recent government report.
WSWS reporters spoke to members of the SI-Cobas rank-and-file union, which mainly organizes logistics workers, at a demonstration in Rome.
The German Council of Economic Experts is demanding deep cuts in social spending to pass the costs of the Iran war, rearmament and the enrichment of the rich onto the weakest in society.
The budget starves public healthcare and cuts education and welfare, while pouring money into prisons and the military.
This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.
Her carefully cultivated public persona has allowed Elizabeth II to be deployed at times of heightened national crisis as an illusory but politically necessary embodiment of stability and permanence.
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
In the wealthiest country in the world, store shelves are empty and millions of families are now facing a desperate struggle to find essential nutrition products for their babies and toddlers.
