The defiant stand by the bin workers is endangered by the continued isolation of their struggle by Unite under General Secretary Sharon Graham, which has done nothing to organise its million-strong membership against Labour’s strikebreaking.
The scandal engulfing Sánchez’s government is being used not only to settle internal disputes within the political establishment, but to prepare the ground for a realignment aimed at imposing deeper austerity, intensified repression of the working class, and a full-scale turn to militarism.
The UBS report on global wealth, developed for the purpose of informing the super-rich about trends in wealth accumulation, is an indictment of the capitalist system where a tiny handful of billionaires have incalculable financial assets as billions of people are plunged deeper into poverty and hunger.
The death of the extremely sick 17-year-old in a motel room in 2023 is an indictment of Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government, which oversaw a worsening mental health crisis and declining access to services.
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.
