Per the AP: “People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to the streets across Asia and Europe to mark May Day on Monday, in a global outpouring of worker discontent not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into lockdowns.
French police charged at radical protesters smashing bank windows as unions pushed the president to scrap a higher retirement age. South Koreans pleaded for higher wages. Spanish lawyers demanded the right to take days off. Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon marched in a country plunged in economic crisis.”
Turns out that capitalism’s global appeal is also a dividing line between the working class and the employer class. Who knew that this dynamic didn’t magically provide equality and stable living conditions across continents? Where one is impacted, all are impacted. Let’s get into some of these discontents, and equate them with our discontents.
