The high-profile Mangione case is being seized upon by the Trump administration to advance its bloodthirsty drive to revive the federal death penalty. It follows President Trump’s signing of an executive order titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety.
Under conditions of exploding income inequality, widespread poverty and inflation-driven real wages cuts, the parties campaigning for the April 28 federal election are offering phony “affordability” measures that don’t even amount to a Band-Aid.
Virtually no one believes that the last-minute election pledges, even if they were to be kept, would make any real difference to the lives or prospects of workers and their families.
The Starmer government is using the Birmingham strike as a test case, whose defeat would be used as a springboard for imposing its austerity agenda.
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.
