Amid the forest of emails surrounding the case and the questions of who, among the partners of the firm, knew what and when, etc., the essence of what PwC did, largely in plain sight, is straight forward enough.
This is the second successive cut to the real wages of low-paid workers delivered under the Albanese Labor government, which reiterated its opposition to an “across-the-board” pay rise in line with inflation.
The struggle against the pension cut is a political struggle against the capitalist state, and to wage it, workers have to fight to bring down Macron.
Workers and young people marching across France against Emmanuel Macron’s illegitimate pension reform must form rank-and-file committees independent of the pro-capitalist trade unions.
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.
