Capitalist recovery rests on intensified exploitation and a growing reserve army of under- and unemployed workers. Nominal wage increases are trumpeted as progress, yet real wages lag far behind the soaring costs of housing, energy, and food.
Even before Thursday’s shooting, Republicans across the country were promoting anti-Muslim rhetoric aimed at destroying the democratic rights of the population as a whole.
Cedric Allen Ricks was executed in Texas, while Alabama death row inmate Charles “Sonny” Burton received a rare commutation.
No one was hurt by the unexploded devices on Saturday, but the incident is being used to revive the “war on terror.”
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.
