A comment on the
glaring class contradictions that Hurricane Katrina has thrown up. While the
poor are accused of looting, the rich loot legally by profiting even from this
disaster.
The recent terrorist attacks in London only confirm
the volatile position the world finds itself in at the beginning of the
21st century. Bush and Blair’s war on terror and the invasions of Iraq
and Afghanistan have done nothing but further destabilize the
situation. In the United States, the mood is finally turning against
the war. This is the editorial of the latest issue of the American Socialist Appeal.
Titanic sums of money - the taxes paid in mostly by the working class - have been spent by the Bush Administration primarily on two things: the continuing slaughter in Iraq and the further enrichment of the top 10 percent of Americans. Millions of working people in the United States continue to worry about whether or not they will have a job two months from now or even next week. And how does the ‘compassionate conservative’ in the White House soothe the nation’s anxiety? By handing out billions of dollars to the modern-day robber barons of Capital.