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Neo-liberalism has "succeeded": rebellion is starting in Israel

category mashriq / arabia / iraq | miscellaneous | opinion / analysis author Thursday July 21, 2011 19:42author by Ilan S. - AAtW, A-infos, Matzpenauthor email ilan at shalif dot comauthor address Tel Aviv Report this post to the editors

The capitalist system has developed to a higher stage. The concentration of capital and the lowering of borders between individual capitalist states has diminished national competition and brought a new era. No more threat of military wars between States and blocs of States. Much less the need of capitalists to ensure the willingness of wage slaves to fight for them in wars. Production and even services are moving to the less-developed countries. Many guest and migrant workers are arriving in developed countries... and the capitalists are extracting more and more surplus value. [Italiano]
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Neo-liberalism has "succeeded": rebellion is starting in Israel


The capitalist system has developed to a higher stage. The concentration of capital and the lowering of borders between individual capitalist states has diminished national competition and brought a new era. No more threat of military wars between States and blocs of States. Much less the need of capitalists to ensure the willingness of wage slaves to fight for them in wars. Production and even services are moving to the less-developed countries. Many guest and migrant workers are arriving in developed countries... and the capitalists are extracting more and more surplus value.

The pressure on wage slaves is expressed through the progressive diminishing of the welfare part of resources that the working class gets as global wages.

The transformation of the system and the increased exploitation is also expressed in the structural diminishing stability of workplaces and even more so in the downgrade of the level of life of the higher strata of the working class, usually labeled the "middle class".

Even among the capitalist class, the share of smaller capitalists is diminishing. A prominent expression of this is the evasion of taxes by big capital and the increase of State debt and the share of taxes needed to service it.

In Israel, where the neo-liberal shift has been so successful, the beginnings of popular uprising are brewing.

The first sign was the successful popular consumer strike following the rise in prices of "cottage" cheese (the fermentation continues regarding other dairy products). It was initiated as a leaderless internet rebellion, organized with the mood of the successful Arab revolt. It is being followed by a housing revolt, due to the increase in rents and the cost of apartments, which students have been joining since last week.

The mood of public rebellion is influencing medical interns training in hospitals and also nurses who started a strike and hunger strike when forced to return to work by the courts.

Rumors say that the government is in a state of panic - both about the food price rebellion (against the few big monopolies), the expansion of camps protesting the housing situation (already there are about 500 tents in various locations, including a 250-tent camp in the center of Tel Aviv), and the interns uprising.

Ilan S.

Related Link: http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/
author by Ilan S. - AAtW, A-infos, Matzpenpublication date Sat Jul 23, 2011 02:00author email ilan at shalif dot comauthor address Tel Avivauthor phone Report this post to the editors

Media reports Thursday that already 2000 are participating in the Tel-Aviv tent camp. Other locations in Israel start their own tent camps. Some protest marches to various targets were initiated. Media and camp protesters connect the struggle to the wider social and political problems. A big demo was called for Saturday late evening.

author by Ilan S. - AAtW, A-infos, Matzpenpublication date Sat Jul 30, 2011 04:51author email ilan at shalif dot comauthor address Tel Avivauthor phone Report this post to the editors

The huge untaxed profits of the biggest capital firm was invested in loans covering state deficits because of the cut in taxes instead of in the real economy as competition diminished. The big crash of the bubble of housing at the capital periodic crisis "forced" the capitalist states to cover the losses of the banks and to increase the taxes of the working class.

The "success" of the neo-liberalism to decimate the "middle class" strata of the working class my ignite an uprising in the main capitalist states like it did in Israel... not just in Greece and Spain.

Related Link: http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/
 
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