This follows the pattern already set in cities like New York, where outsourcing homelessness services has enriched private contractors while failing to deliver lasting solutions. These changes reflect a conscious class strategy to commodify and profit from poverty while shifting the burden of [the homelessness] crisis onto the working class.
They also warn:
Democratic rights cannot be defended by appealing to the Democratic Party— a party of Wall Street, war and political reaction. The various pseudo-left organizations that orbit the Democrats are laying political traps for students and workers, seeking to channel opposition back into the very forces responsible for the crisis.
The strike, despite immediately targeting the NSW Labor government, is of national significance. It is being held amid a federal election campaign, in which Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition and the corporate media are desperately trying to suppress any expression of the immense anger in the working class over the cost-of-living crisis, real wage reductions and the decimation of social services, including health and education.
The composition and the content of the Shostakovich Fifth cannot be separated from the events of the decade in which it was composed, in the Soviet Union in particular. This was the decade of the Depression, the rise of Nazism, the bloody consolidation of Stalin’s rule and the emergence of the storm clouds leading to the Second World War. It is therefore remarkable, although not too surprising, that the New York Philharmonic program notes of two weeks ago—while including a separate section entitled “At the Time,” and listing events of 1937 such as the coronation of King George VI in England, the Hindenburg disaster in New Jersey and the opening of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and New York’s Lincoln Tunnel—make no mention of the frame-up trials in the USSR.
Trump declared that, because China had retaliated against US tariff hikes, tariffs on Chinese goods would be raised to 125 percent “effective immediately.”
In an earlier period, such an economic blockade would have been recognized as an act of war.
The build-up of 17,000 tons of waste on the streets of Birmingham— underscoring the essential role bin workers perform— was seized on by the Labour council to declare a “major incident” on March 31, giving itself extraordinary powers to effectively illegalize strike action and enforce sweeping pay cuts. It has drafted in extra agency workers and additional vehicles to bolster strike-breaking operations and called on support from neighboring councils.
24. Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Greece:
Hundreds of thousands hold a general against continuing austerity
- Spain:
Tens of thousands demonstrate across Spain for affordable housing and against property speculation
Hundreds of Spanish employees at the multinational giant, Bridgestone Corporation, begin the first of several strike days
- Italy:
Students and teachers join a national strike and demonstrations against government cuts to education
- Belgium:
Rail workers strike against government austerity measures affecting pensions, working conditions and rail services
- United Kingdom:
Academic staff at London’s Brunel University walk out over job cuts
Cleaners and passenger-assistance workers at London's Heathrow airport strike
- Middle East Region:
Strikes protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza in the West Bank take place across the region... and beyond including: Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey
- Israel:
Israeli Foreign Workers Administration staff strike over workloads
Prior to the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza there were around 160,000 foreign workers. Israel relied on the labor of around 100,000 Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank traveling into Israel each day to work. Since the beginning of the war, this source of labor stopped.
Israel plans to double the quota of foreigners entering the country and planned to employ around an additional 500 Israeli workers to administer the increase. However, because of low wages it failed to attract enough applicants, increasing the workload on the current staff.
- Iraq:
Teachers and public sector workers walk out over pay and conditions
- Iran:
Cost-of-living protests continue across Iran: among telecommunications retirees in Ahvaz, Bijar, Marivan, and Rasht, and among oil workers on the island of Lavan in southern Iran
- Nigeria:
Protests met by police repression take place across the country against economic hardship and loss of democratic right
Federal government employees in Ibadan protest non-payment of wages
Polytechnic staff strike in Ondo State over non-payment of salaries
- South Africa:
waste collection workers in Johannesburg and sanitation workers in KwaZulu-Natal protest abysmal work conditions
25. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!
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