US President Donald Trump hosted the heads of Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other technology companies for lunch at the White House Tuesday, condemning any government oversight or regulation of the technology sector.
The Ministry of Social Development denied emergency food grants last year to 88,000 people and told thousands that food was “not an essential need”.
With British imperialism facing debt interest payments at £110 billion a year and plans to ramp war against Russia, along with deeper involvement in Middle East conflicts, Labour today has even less possibility of increasing social spending than under Tony Blair in the 1990s.
The mass disenrollment of 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act plans is the latest bipartisan assault on healthcare that aims to drive millions of workers and their families deeper into poverty.
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.
