The hikes for this year so far total three quarters of a percent with more rises threatened in the future, taking hundreds of dollars a month from the disposable income of households battling to pay off mortgages.
The collapse of Spirit has priced millions of working class travelers out of air travel overnight—and it is only the first casualty of the fuel crisis triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
The government’s decision not to rescue Spirit, on the absurd grounds that they did not “have half a billion dollars laying around,” is deliberate class policy aimed at making the working class pay for the war.
An SEP stall next to Glass Works Square, where the rally assembled, promoted the party's public meetings this month across the UK.
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.
