The Insurgent Retirees remind us that in all human societies, the active sector of the population produces a surplus to support the inactive sector…
Tag: pensions
State attacks elderly protestors in Buenos Aires
Javier Milei’s ultra-liberal policies have doubled the prices of medicines and essential services, with a sharp decline in the value of pensi…
French anarchists on the strike for pensions
The following statement from France’s anarchist CNT-AIT union analyses the nature of yesterday’s general strike, which has brought out …
Work until you die
A report by the Centre for Social Justice has proposed raising the pension age to 70 by 2028 and 75 by 2035: Tory’s plan to raise the state pensi…
Shut Carlow Street: We’ll run our own union
UCU activist Jose Collina reflects this year’s universities pensions strike, won and lost.
Plan C: On the university pensions struggle
Elio Di Muccio writes on the encouraging strength of recent strike action and the potential for a more radical attack against the long programme of…
Argentina: Macri’s conservative policies won’t pass
Federico Abal writes on the broad repression of progressives which is being carried out by the Macri government, and how people are fighting back i…
Chile: Women and the pensions backlash
Following a new wave of protests against Chile’s Pinochet-era privatised pensions system, María Carrasco of libertarian communist journal S…
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