Incoming UK Prime Minister Burnham’s declaration that his was a “cost-of-living government” amounted to a pledge to scrap VAT sales tax on domestic electricity, saving a typical household just £45 annually, or 86 pence a week. Even this provoked a right-wing media backlash.
The claim that Burnham can change the course of the government is a pale imitation of the claims made earlier about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
The strike of 500 lawyers and support staff at Brooklyn Defender Services began Tuesday, part of a developing strike movement in the sector.
Wages fell 6.4 percent between 2021 and 2026, the biggest decline among OECD countries, while the banks made tens of billions of dollars and the fortunes of the super-rich hit record levels.
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.
