Students shared their views with WSWS reporters on the youth protests across Europe and the political conclusions they are drawing.
On Saturday, more than 120,000 young people took to the streets in over 30 German cities against the destruction of education, soaring living costs, social inequality, militarism and the reintroduction of compulsory military service.
On thousands of handmade cardboard placards, the mostly very young participants denounced the crisis in education, exorbitant rents and social cuts, linking these issues to militarism and war, on which the government is spending billions.
“There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain,” Pike said. “My body hurts. ... I still struggle to speak.”
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.
