Labor’s NAPLAN widens education inequality in Australia
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Florida executes Harold Gene Lucas after 50 years on death row and 5 death sentences
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Berlin Tenants are being fed a tissue of lies by the main parties
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Thousands of children face catastrophic conditions following Nepal floods
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Paul Mitchell•
Kathleen Martin, Usman Khan •
Norisa Diaz•
Oscar Grenfell•
Martin Scott•
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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.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Eric London•
Joseph Scalice•
Niles Niemuth•
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