EDITOR—After a historically brief postwar period when the working class (especially in Europe) could enjoy a more tolerable standard of living thanks to the adoption of social democracy out of fear for the Soviet example— better wages, unemployment cushions, healthcare, free education, etc.—the inexorable capitalist crisis is forcing a shrinking of the “goodies” with which the ruling class bought the passivity of the masses. This is inherent in capitalism which, due to its internal dynamic always goes from boom to bust, a problem now magnified with the extension of capitalism to global dimensions under US imperialism.
Thus, the working class today in practically all capitalist countries is feeling the pain of living under totally non-representative increasingly tyrannical oligarchies and fake democracies, a situation aggravated by a decadent set of blatantly hypocritical “civilised values” (i.e., the rise of “WOKE imperialism”), and the grotesque lies implicit in the pretend fight for human rights and against anti-semitism, that serve to muzzle free speech, protect Israel from retribution for its multitude of heinous crimes, and facilitate the deletion of democratic norms.