This is the human cost of “modernization” at the United States Postal Service, where jobs are being slashed through automation and the postal infrastructure handed over to private corporations.
Trump’s Department of Agriculture is attempting to fire a worker in retaliation for speaking publicly on the impacts of the shutdown.
The role of the NDP and Greens in securing the budget's passage confirms their function as props of a right-wing big business government committed to restructuring class relations in the interests of Canadian capitalism at a time of accelerating social and economic crisis.
The call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for a rank-and-file investigation into the on-the-job deaths of USPS workers Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr. has been endorsed by members and supporters of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee at Royal Mail in the UK.
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.
