The intensifying social crisis in the Hutt South electorate, mirrored in working class areas across New Zealand and the world, underscores the importance of the SEG’s election campaign.
Throughout October, major protests have been taking place in Portugal, bringing together demands over the rising cost of living, wages, pensions and public services, as well as the right to housing and the struggle against evictions.
The inability of households to pay their water bills underscores that the provision of basic social rights cannot be left to big business, local councils and the government.
Chancellor John Healey’s budget offers a paltry one-off £100 for households against soaring energy bills, while another £10 billion is found to fund war in Ukraine.
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.
