The signals from the Fair Work Commission’s “expert panel” on pay and classifications in in the social and community services sector are far from reassuring.
The line being spun by New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s team is that his abject display of bootlicking in the White House was a strategic masterstroke that has put Trump on the backfoot. Yet Mamdani achieved not a single concession, not a single win.
In many countries, there is evidence that the capitalist status quo and its far-right outgrowths can be challenged. Where the left has gotten its act together, it has tapped the well of discontent.
