The election campaign has been dominated by reactionary posturing, especially anti-migrant xenophobia. Not a single party raises the real issues confronting Portugal’s workers: the descent of capitalism into world war, the escalating crisis of the European Union, or the devastating impact of trade war, austerity and militarism.
Eğrek's death, which must be considered beyond the company's specific hatred and animosity towards one worker, confirms that the lives of workers have no value in the eyes of the ruling class.
The bankruptcy of healthcare service provider Prospect Medical Holdings has revealed the real face of the capitalist system’s subordination of public health to market forces, leaving an entire community to fend for itself without life saving services.
Unite and the GMB union are sitting on the potential for a far wider fightback among refuse and council workers.
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.
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.
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
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.
