Austerity for the Essential: The Struggle of Personal Support Workers
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 10 2020 22:04
Mainstream news sources, for the last decade, have been reporting on the increased frequency of the “hallway healthcare” phenomena in Ontario hospitals. Over this time the problem has grown into a norm, rather than an alarming exception.
Workers are Paying for the Bosses' Crisis
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 15 2019 13:56
For years now the whole Brexit issue has diverted attention from the declining quality of life experienced by the working class in the aftermath of the financial crash. Now we have an election campaign where Labour and the Conservatives are vying to outdo each other as to how much they will increase state spending in order to end austerity. Labour's plans for a kind of soft nationalisation (a sort of John Lewis employee share scheme, “when the market will allow it”) and Boris' gob shite about the NHS (as the break-up continues) are not going to alter the fact that the working class is paying for capitalism's crisis.
The Shadow of September 2008 Continues to Lengthen
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 13 2019 12:55
It is now 11 years since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. The crisis in the real economy, instead of fading from memory, has become a fixture.
Negro Matapacos, Chilean canine protester
Submitted by wojtek on Nov 9 2019 16:33
In Chile the late street dog known as Negro Matapacos (“Black Cop-Killer”), has become a symbol of rebellion. Matapacos was a famous street dog in Santiago, Chile known for being at every protest, defying tear gas and water cannons, and fiercely hating the police. Since his passing in 2017 he has became a symbol of protests and resistance, and is affectionately know as the patron saint of protests and street dogs.
1989: Venezuela Caracazo food riots
Submitted by Reddebrek on May 23 2019 07:49
In the 1980s Venezuela was suffering a major economic crisis, in response the government imposed extreme austerity policies that led to massive hikes in the cost of food, fuel and services. By 1989 protests had erupted and escalated to major rioting and government imposed a state of emergency.
Brazil: How things have (and haven't) changed
Submitted by Baderneiro Miseravel on May 9 2019 12:46
From the management of June 2013 uprising to Bolsonaro’s ordered revolt.
The Crisis in Care For the Elderly
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 1 2019 21:18
The dire situation really does pose the question of what sort of society we should and could be living in the 21st century.
Brexit or Not: Workers Have Their Own Battles to Fight
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 25 2019 16:28
The Brexit pantomime threatens to fracture the traditional political set-up of the British ruling class. Meanwhile the whole issue is diverting attention from the dire situation experienced by the working class. Theresa May has announced that austerity is over but the massive spending cuts that have been implemented over the last decade are not going to be reversed.
Fight Capitalism - Not its Symptoms
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 24 2019 11:45
A growing gulf between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ is in itself only a symptom of the disease. The real problem is that capitalism in crisis has nothing left to offer but increasing misery for the mass of the population. And 2019 will be no different.
Peoples Assembly Election Carnival: Leftist "Yellow Vests" show their true colours
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 15 2019 17:25
On 5 January demonstrators wearing yellow vests assembled in London to demand a ‘hard’ Brexit that will fulfil their nationalist fantasies. In reality that will not happen because it runs so sharply against the interests of the ruling class both in Britain and elsewhere in the European Union.
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