Austerity for the Essential: The Struggle of Personal Support Workers
Workers are Paying for the Bosses' Crisis
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
Negro Matapacos, Chilean canine protester
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
Brazil: How things have (and haven't) changed
The Crisis in Care For the Elderly
Brexit or Not: Workers Have Their Own Battles to Fight
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
Peoples Assembly Election Carnival: Leftist "Yellow Vests" show their true colours
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