Honest mistakes and miscalculations have left tens of thousands of the poorest people in the country owing huge sums of money. Almost a thousand are being demanded repayments of £5,000-£20,000.
The layoffs are not just the product of the ample greed and stupidity of Elon Musk, but part of a broader attack on jobs in the auto industry and in industries across the world.
In this society, success in any endeavor is identified not with its intrinsic value or the personal satisfaction it brings, but with the accumulation of wealth and status. The concrete, qualitative side of an activity, whether it be playing football or anything else, loses significance; it becomes merely a means to an end.
The outcome of the O.J. Simpson trial proved once again that the essential issue in American society is class, not race.
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.
