Even though fascist propagandist Nick Shirley’s “investigative” reporting targeting alleged fraud by Somali-run child care centers is complete bunk, the Trump administration is using the video to cut federal funding for child, health and food programs that benefit the working class and poor.
Amid a surge in people sleeping rough, the government will strengthen police powers to “move on” homeless people from city streets.
Workers and the poor must oppose the government’s plans to impose the huge costs of cyclone recovery on the masses. They are not responsible for the cyclone catastrophe or the underlying capitalist crisis.
The German budget abolishes “citizens' income” (basic welfare support) and imposes sweeping social cuts to finance rearmament, war and tax handouts for the wealthy, while expanding precarious work and social insecurity for millions.
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.
