With the full complicity of the participating trade union chiefs, the “economic reform” summit became a vehicle to launch deeper cuts to social programs, boost corporate profits and prepare for war.
The collapse of mobility reflects not individual choice but a calculated outcome of capitalist policy, enforced by the Democrats, Republicans and unions, to entrench inequality and subordinate workers to corporate and financial power.
Public sector unions went on strike and held demonstrations across the country on Monday protesting the Erdoğan government’s imposition of an austerity contract.
The dispute followed the discovery that workers under 21 years of age in the Village Hotel in Edinburgh were paid the same as their older colleagues, £12.21 an hour, while those in Glasgow were only paid £10.42.
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.
