Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system

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Social wage / Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system

When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.

22 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
Social wage / Malthusianism is alive and well as feminists celebrate declining birth rate

Since they cannot admit to a solution lying outside of capitalist production relations, ‘women’s rights’ advocates are reduced to prettifying their chains.

2 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
USA / US state revokes child protection laws instead of creating decent jobs for adults

Wisconsin is planning to patch up the cracks in its faltering economy by getting children to work longer and later.

10 Nov 2021 , Proletarian

Social wage / Scandalous profiteering at the expense of children in care

Our most vulnerable children have been transformed into business units by private equity funds.

25 Jul 2021 , Lalkar
Social wage / Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate

When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.

8 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
Society / Time to end poverty: expropriate the expropriators!

Bourgeois commentators are increasingly identifying the problems besetting humanity, but they are congenitally incapable of recognising the solution staring them in the face.

23 Jan 2021 ,
Education / Marketisation of services to vulnerable children exposes true values of liberal democracy

Never has the gap between human and capitalist logic been so glaringly apparent.

15 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
Social wage / Work doesn’t pay and British families know it

Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.

19 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
Social wage / Children in care being let down as vultures profit from their misery

The children’s care system is yet another example of how privateers are feeding off the wretchedness of society’s most vulnerable.

18 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty

A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.

13 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
Education / Kids’ strike over school tests

Kids boycott SAT tests as parents demand: ‘Let our kids be kids’.

1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian

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TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningles busywork

An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really?
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Our party’s internationalist tasks: support for revolutionary Laos
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Influence-peddling scandal implicates Joe Biden, son Hunter and brother Jim
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Dissecting the cliches of Anglo-American ethnocentrism
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Oppose US ‘special measures’ against sovereign Nicaragua!
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Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back
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NHS privatisation accelerated during the pandemic: a medical ‘shock doctrine’
8
Support for USA’s proxy war in Ukraine draining as true cost dawns on the world
9
Syria moves forward
10
Joint enterprise murder convictions judged unsound

Children highlights

Social wage / Hungry schoolchildren; another sign of a failed system

When an economic system can’t provide basics like food and warm shelter to its people, it is time for it to be replaced.

Social wage / Malthusianism is alive and well as feminists celebrate declining birth rate

Since they cannot admit to a solution lying outside of capitalist production relations, ‘women’s rights’ advocates are reduced to prettifying their chains.

USA / US state revokes child protection laws instead of creating decent jobs for adults

Wisconsin is planning to patch up the cracks in its faltering economy by getting children to work longer and later.

Social wage / Scandalous profiteering at the expense of children in care

Our most vulnerable children have been transformed into business units by private equity funds.

Social wage / Hard to swallow: UK food parcels shamefully inadequate

When profit takes precedence over the provision of service, it’s no surprise that half-hearted and belated government measures are not fit for purpose.

Society / Time to end poverty: expropriate the expropriators!

Bourgeois commentators are increasingly identifying the problems besetting humanity, but they are congenitally incapable of recognising the solution staring them in the face.

Education / Marketisation of services to vulnerable children exposes true values of liberal democracy

Never has the gap between human and capitalist logic been so glaringly apparent.

Social wage / Work doesn’t pay and British families know it

Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.

Social wage / Children in care being let down as vultures profit from their misery

The children’s care system is yet another example of how privateers are feeding off the wretchedness of society’s most vulnerable.

Social wage / A third of British children live in poverty

A decade of austerity is taking a heavy toll on Britain’s families.

Education / Kids’ strike over school tests

Kids boycott SAT tests as parents demand: ‘Let our kids be kids’.

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