The German government’s Citizen’s Income: Hartz IV poverty gets a new name
Germany’s new “Citizen’s Income” will only increase the abject poverty of the current 5.3 million recipients of Hartz IV social security payments.
Carola Kleinert•
The FIFA World Cup in Qatar: geopolitics, money and double standards
With the World Cup in Qatar, the domination of commercial and power interests over sport has reached a new stage.
Peter Schwarz•
What do Americans have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving?
Daily mass shootings, skyrocketing inflation, unending pandemics and the threat of nuclear war is what capitalism has to offer workers and their families in 2022.
Jacob Crosse•
Thanksgiving in America: The voices of the hungry on the holiday
WSWS reporters spoke with workers and youth who visited food pantries, as well as administrators of the programs, on the eve of the annual Thanksgiving holiday.
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Carola Kleinert•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
Robert Stevens•
Kevin Reed•
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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.
Thomas Scripps•
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•
Eric London•
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