The IMF’s endorsement is a clear indication of the government’s strict adherence to IMF dictates, which impose the full burden of the crisis on the working class and rural masses.
WSWS reporters spoke to striking resident doctors as they began a six-day strike.
Everywhere, impoverished migrants face closed borders and state-sanctioned demonisation designed to divert social anger over poverty, unemployment and cuts in vital social services away from the super-rich oligarchy despoiling the planet.
Up to 750,000 disabled people are projected to receive a lower supplementary universal credit rate by 2029/30, resulting in an annual average income loss of £3,000.
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.
