State killings in Alabama and Texas, a stay of execution in Georgia
Jeffery Lee, sentenced to death by a judge who overrode a jury’s 7-5 vote for life imprisonment, became the 27th person put to death in the US this year.
Kate Randall•
NZ power companies make massive profits while households freeze
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John Braddock•
Trades Union Congress uses “Burnham bounce” to fall into line with more austerity and war
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Tony Robson•
The Fifth Circuit’s ruling on Jackson: The courts formalize the right to poison the working class
The Appeals Court ruled in the case of Jackson, Mississippi that the Constitution provides no right to clean drinking water.
Cordell Gascoigne, Kranti Kumara•
John Malvar•
Leonard Johns•
Margaret Rees•
Kate Randall•
Jean de Jager•
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May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism
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.
Nick Beams•
Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
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.
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The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
David Walsh•
The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
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.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Eric London•
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