Police raid German real estate giant Vonovia
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Updated report shows poverty in Germany is higher than previously thought
The updated report shows that due to the coronavirus pandemic and inflation, poverty in Germany in 2021 afflicted almost 17 percent of the population, or just over 14 million people.
Elisabeth Zimmermann•
Rough sleeping rises in UK amid tidal wave of homelessness
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Dennis Moore•
US maternal mortality rate soars: An example of capitalist barbarism
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Patrick Martin•
Robert Stevens•
Thomas Scripps•
Tom Hall•
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Sandy English•
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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.
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
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The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
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The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
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