Australia: Worsening conditions for Aboriginal workers and youth in latest “Closing the Gap” report
The findings again underscore the widening gulf between official rhetoric and the lived conditions facing Indigenous people.
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More than 2.1 billion of world’s 3.6 billion workers are in the informal economy
These findings vindicate Marx’s analysis of the reserve army of labour—the unemployed and under‑employed population that capitalism requires to keep wages low and workers compliant.
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Florida’s assembly line of death grinds on with execution of Billy Leon Kearse
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No social media ban in Germany for young people!
What the social media ban is really about is the attempt to curb the growing politicisation, radicalisation and international networking of youth.
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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”
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.
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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.
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