ILO report reveals severe gender pay gap in Sri Lankan labour force
The pay gap between male and female workers is an integral part of the system of capitalist exploitation that ensures lucrative profits for investors.
The pay gap between male and female workers is an integral part of the system of capitalist exploitation that ensures lucrative profits for investors.
More than 50 percent of all respondents said they would struggle to cope with any unexpected expense, under conditions where costs for housing and other basic essentials have skyrocketed.
The Ipsos survey also found that 68 percent oppose the government’s plans for greater spending on the military to prepare for war, which is being funded by cuts to vital public services.
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.
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.