This scapegoating must be understood in the context of the social order the ANC has presided over since 1994. While the legal framework of apartheid was dismantled, the underlying class structures have been preserved.
For the working class, the issue is not the personal fate of Starmer, or his replacement by another right-wing Labourite.
Behind the backs of striking workers, all sides are engaged in a coordinated operation to peddle an agreement they insist cannot be scrutinised.
It is a measure of the true political character of the official opposition to Trump that the Democrats joined in multiple standing ovations for this reactionary diatribe, and that it was hailed by the British and European media.
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.
