The collapse of infrastructure in Gary and the broader Calumet region is the result of decades of policies through which the financial elite has drained resources from essential physical assets and funneled them into speculation.
Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swathes of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm.
Silvia’s execution came five days after the first triple execution day in the United States since 2010. Ten more executions are scheduled before the end of the year: two in Florida, five in Texas, two in Tennessee and one in Alabama.
New York City’s DSA mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has remained silent on a lawsuit challenging mass police surveillance of hundreds of thousands of New York City Housing Authority residents.
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.
