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Tens of thousands of people have protested in Paris against the high cost of living and for a more decisive fight against climate change
https://www.dw.com/en/france-is-a-new-protest-movement-starting-over-cost-of-living/a-63457388
Hindu nationalism has split the Indian expatriate community just as Donald Trump’s presidency polarized the U.S., said Varun Soni, dean of religious life at the University of Southern California.
https://apnews.com/article/religion-india-holidays-nationalism-d851b8fcabb9eb0f3946275fdf596322
“Rather than restore the right to asylum decimated by the Trump administration … the Biden administration has dangerously embraced the failures of the past and expanded upon them by explicitly enabling expulsions of Venezuelan migrants,” said Jennifer Nagda, policy director of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
“Strikes are inevitable. And strikes are a symptom of things going wrong. It’s not a coordinated political campaign to bring down the government. We bring our members out on strike when we reach the point where there’s no other alternative.” Christina McAnea, the general secretary of Unison
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/17/endemic-low-pay-threatens-future-nhs-union-boss
Unite union, Sharon Graham, predicted that up to 1 million people in various areas could soon be on strike at once.
I read, “She also identifies the period that the definitive transition to state-capitalism occurred: 1935-1937.”
Surely this time-line is suspect.
Mortgage rise crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/oct/15/uk-families-mortgage-rising-resolution-foundation
More than five million families could see their annual mortgage payments rise by an average of £5,100 between now and the end of 2024,
I read that the shortage problem arose because there was a shortage of staff, not a shortage of volunteers
Royal Mail’s revenge
10,000 redundancies(4000 natural wastage not re-filled, plus 6000 axed)
And the redundancy pay-off payments will be at a lower level than previously agreed.
“Royal Mail also revealed that it will have to enter talks with the union because, it said its legacy voluntary redundancy scheme, which offers up to two years’ of pay, “is now unaffordable”. ”From 1943
The rise and fall of Mussolini
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-rise-and-fall-of-mussolini-1943.html
“…The truth is that Mussolini and his Fascist Party had outlived its popularity under the stress of economic hardship and military defeat, and could no longer fulfil the prime function of those who take on the job of harnessing the exploited working class to the capitalist State in the interest of the exploiting class. Discontent had grown and the workers would not go on believing and obeying the leaders in whom they had once placed their trust… Mussolini and his Fascists did not mould events, but were the astute exploiters of events which moulded them…”
The femonationalism of Meloni
As members know I am no Marxist economics guru so how valid this analysis I came across is for others more informed to determine.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/global-inflationary-tsunami-made-us-not-ukraine
My understanding is that it is mostly renewables which will be affected but the oil and gas corporations will be exempt from this windfall tax.
As an aside, i note Greta Thunberg is sympathetic to nuclear power with caveats.
2,300 delegates will gather in Tiananmen Square’s Great Hall of the People for about a week.
About 200 of them will be selected to join the party’s central committee, plus around 170 alternate members.
The central committee will elect 25 people to the party’s Politburo.
And the Politburo will appoint the members of the Politburo standing committee.
These are the elite of the elite.
