On Friday 29th April the people of Britain will be invited to participate in the joyful celebration of the marriage of Mr. William Windsor and Ms. Katherine Middleton. At the same time that the government is cutting billions from unnecessary extravagances such as hospitals, schools, teachers, nurses, the old and the sick, the unemployed and single parents, the Coalition has had the good sense to spend a lot of money on something as essential to the Public Good as the nuptials of Willy and Kate.
Crisis of the euro shades of the Titanic
The euro zone is heading into stormy
waters. The crisis that opened with the near collapse of the world
banking system in 2008 has now deepened into a crisis of insolvency of
entire nations. The bourgeois has no idea of how to get out of the
crisis, which is sweeping like an uncontrollable tsunami from one
country to another in Europe. In the words of Italy’s finance minister,
“There should be no illusions about who will be saved. Like on the
Titanic, the first class passengers won’t be able to save themselves.”
The
Egyptian military top brass have taken over the running of the country
and, while they are promising a transition to “democracy” at some stage,
they are more concerned in the short term about what they see as “chaos
and disorder”. That is, not just the rallies that have gripped all of
Egypt’s major cities, but something far more dangerous in their view,
the growing strike wave.
An
example of the militancy of the Egyptian workers is this statement
issued by the higher coordination committee of the Petrotrade workers,
calling on workers at the company for an open ended strike until their
demands are met.
Today
marks one month since the revolutionary overthrow of the hated dictator
Ben Ali in Tunisia on January 14th. The last month has been a constant
struggle between the ruling class which wants to return to bourgeois
normality and workers and youth who carried out the revolution and who
are struggling to stop the old regime from trying to make a comeback.
The
tyrant has fallen! As I write these lines, Hosni Mubarak has resigned.
This is a great victory, not just for the people of Egypt, but for the
workers of the entire world. After 18 days of continuous revolutionary
mobilizations, with 300 dead and thousands injured, Hosni Mubarak's
30-year tyranny is no more.