Workers and students have been speaking to the WSWS across the UK about the US invasion of Venezuela, the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, and the imperialist agenda of the Starmer government.
The US attack on Venezuela is exposing the collapse of the African National Congress’ post-apartheid “non-alignment” strategy, intensifying internal divisions within South Africa’s ruling elite as Washington pressures Pretoria to choose either itself or China.
The conflict between Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell is a dispute within the US ruling class, driven by fear of a mass movement from below against capitalism.
US citizen murdered by ICE, Renee Good, “was entirely innocent; that was her street and neighbourhood she was looking out for, to monitor ICE so people could go about their daily lives.”
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.
