Willacy was the eighth person executed this year in the US and the fifth in Florida, the latest casualty of an accelerating machinery of death overseen by Governor Ron DeSantis.
Hundreds of hauliers and agricultural contractors, farmers and small transport businesses brought together by right-wing organisers and social media pages forced Ireland to a standstill for days, through blockades, rolling roadblocks and protests.
The “Total Shutdown Tuesday” protests opposed a sharp fuel price hike, raising petrol prices by over 16 percent and diesel by more than 24 percent. The hike, driven by disruptions to global oil supplies by the US-Israeli war against Iran, has sharply increased the cost of transport and basic goods.
Voters approved a constitutional amendment transferring congressional redistricting authority to the Democratic Party-controlled legislature, potentially flipping four additional House seats ahead of November’s midterm elections.
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.
