Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported 172,017 job cuts in February, the highest monthly total since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Economist Lalitha Try noted that the poorest households are “spending almost as much on these bills as they pay in income tax. This terribly designed tax increasingly resembles the very thing it was meant to replace—the dreaded poll tax.”
McMahon’s mandate is to take the Department of Education apart piece by piece until Congress approves its final elimination and the mass privatization of public education.
Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the bourgeoisie and middle class. It is positioning itself as an alternative for elites frustrated with Kenya’s alignment with the US, seeing China as a more lucrative alternative.
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.
