The fraud of Labor’s “historic” housing policies in Australian budget
By the government’s own figures, its changes to the tax regime for property investment will not decrease super-inflated housing prices even slightly.
Oscar Grenfell•
Germany: Accelerated job cuts in the auto and supplier industry
The attack on jobs in the German auto and supplier industry is accelerating. It goes hand in hand with the social cutbacks the government has introduced in relation to the citizen’s income, healthcare and pensions, and with the squandering of vast sums of money on rearmament and war. Unless this trend is halted, disaster looms.
Peter Schwarz•
Trade union leaders call for orderly transition from Starmer to police working class opposition
The trade union bureaucracy bears direct responsibility for delivering the working class into the hands of the Starmer government.
Tony Robson•
Starmer government mounts mass police crackdown against London protests, targeting pro-Palestinian movement
Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman boasted that police had “arrested and charged people for calling for intifada at protests”
Robert Stevens•
Richard Phillips•
Patrick Martin•
Isaac de Vries•
Robert Stevens•
Oscar Grenfell•
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May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism
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.
Nick Beams•
Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
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.
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The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
David Walsh•
The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
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.
Kevin Reed•
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