As
advanced capitalist countries embark on austerity programs, cutting
spending on health care, education, increasing tuition fees, etc.
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Since taking over as Andy Burnham’s foreign secretary, Ed Miliband has continued Labour’s cynical ploy to appear somewhat critical of Israel. But we don’t buy it. Elsewhere, Trump’s troops harbour resentment, and world shipping faces headwinds.
The situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is on a knife edge. This mass movement is a continuation of the revolutionary unrest that swept through Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal over the past two years. And it now faces a crossroads: the bloody path of compromise, or onwards down the road to revolution.
In this talk from the RCP Summer School, Lubna Badi explores the main forces shaping today’s world: from the relative decline of US hegemony and the fracturing of western alliances, to Europe’s severe industrial downturn and the surge of class anger worldwide.