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The conditions in the sector are the product of relentless privatisation, and a resulting assault on jobs, wages and safety standards.
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California’s declining life expectancy driven by a public health crisis
California, long heralded as a model of innovation and progress, has become a place where working class people are dying earlier, and reaping none of the benefits of medical science.
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After over 50 demonstrators gunned down this year, Kenya’s President Ruto orders: “Shoot them in the leg”
This sadistic call for mutilation is a thinly disguised pledge to continue murdering protesters. In total, Ruto’s regime has killed over 140 protestors, left thousands injured and maimed for life, while hundreds have disappeared or been abducted.
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Veolia recognition strike in Sheffield: Unite stages bogus “mega-picket”
Sheffield and Birmingham refuse workers have shown real determination, and their action can galvanise broader working-class opposition. But this is something the bureaucracy dreads as it would mean direct confrontation with the Labour government and its locally controlled authorities.
Tony Robson•
Robert Stevens•
Margaret Rees•
Patrick Martin•
Marc Wells•
Gary Alvernia•
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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.
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Jacob Crosse•
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