Homelessness in the U.S. has risen by 18%, with Amazon and Starbucks workers ending strikes without concessions. The Biden administration escalates its trade war against China, while a deadly explosion at a Tyson Foods plant highlights unsafe working conditions. China responds with sanctions against U.S. companies selling arms to Taiwan.
The Rot of Capitalism: Strikes, Homelessness, and Imperialist Aggression
Comrades, the contradictions of capitalism grow ever sharper as we witness the unrelenting exploitation of the working class and the imperialist machinations of bourgeois governments. In the United States, homelessness surges while the ruling class feasts on the labor of the masses. Workers at Amazon and Starbucks are forced back to their posts without a single concession from the masters of capital. Meanwhile, the imperialist Biden administration escalates its trade war against China, laying the groundwork for further conflict. It is clear: the capitalist order is a rotting edifice that must be swept away.
Key Stories and Updates:
- Homelessness in the U.S. rises by 18%, with family homelessness surging nearly 40%, as the housing crisis deepens.
- Amazon and Starbucks workers end strikes, gaining nothing in the face of corporate retaliation and union bureaucracy.
- China sanctions U.S. companies as imperialist provocations in Taiwan continue.
- Bidenâs trade war against China escalates, exposing the hypocrisy and desperation of the American capitalist state.
- Explosion at Tyson Foods plant in Georgia kills a sleeping worker, underscoring the deadly conditions endured by the working class.
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