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. [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.