German government prepares assault on social spending, scapegoating immigrants
Merz and his government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, are preparing for ferocious conflicts with the working class.
Merz and his government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, are preparing for ferocious conflicts with the working class.
The threat to shut off food stamps is part of a broader social counter-revolution, which will not stop until the oligarchs behind Trump are finally expropriated, and society put under workers’ control.
Neither the Democratic nor the Republican candidate offers solutions to the 22 percent jump in electricity prices.
The Labour government was elected in July last year with a manifesto stating that under the Conservatives rough sleepers were “an all too-common sight in our towns and cities” and promising to “put Britain back on track to ending homelessness.”
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.