Burning fossil fuels to fill the pockets of the rich increasingly means burning human beings to death for profit—another way the capitalist system spitting out wars, pandemics and deaths of despair is toxic to human life.
The pension reforms seamlessly follow the abolition of Bürgergeld (welfare benefits) and the so-called “health reforms.” Billions are being redistributed from the pockets of the needy, the sick, pensioners, the low-paid and workers into rearmament into the accounts of the super-rich.
More than any other single individual, Greenspan worked to create an economic system based on speculation, parasitism, and unprecedented social inequality which characterises US and world capitalism today.
Workers and youth confront the capitalist state, its police and military apparatus, the courts, the trade union bureaucracy, the bourgeois opposition parties and the financial aristocracy.
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.
