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Are the tables starting to turn? | A view from around the world

By Leon J Williams

Brazil protestsA look at the news from around the world shows a clear sign, the people have had enough!

The people are fed up of having their lives dictated to them, being told who they can have sex with, who they can marry, if they can drink alcohol, where they taxes will be spent. The people are fed up of being beaten for expressing their right to free speech.

Enough is enough.

Turkey

The situation in Turkey continues as the anti-government protests evolve into the ‘Standing Man’ civil disobedience. The Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seeming losing the plot with his delusional public rants. Germany has started to stand in the way of Turkey’s EU bid because of the heavy handed police abuse much to Tayyip’s annoyance. Like any dictatorship there is heavy control and regulation of the media with more crackdowns on social media to come.

Greece

Greece’s already fragile coalition government has taken a blow as the Democratic Left Party pulls out over the closure of the national broadcaster ERT. The shock sudden closure caused protests from both the left and the right wing.

Brazil

Over a million people (possibly 2 million) took to the streets in cities all over Brazil after transport fares increased dramatically. The people are angry at widespread corruption and the cost of the upcoming football world cup. No money to keep transport costs down but plenty of money for football stadiums.
Such is the scale of the protests that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is holding an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the country’s most widespread unrest in two decades.

Daily Headline – 24/01/13

Japan posts record high trade deficit in 2012

Japanese economy flag

Japan has the highest government debt as a percentage of GDP running at 229.77% in 2011. To put that into perspective in the same year ‘economic crisis’ stricken Greece has the 2nd worst at 160.81%.

The 2012 figures are not officially out yet but Japan is set to be 238.44% and Greece (still 2nd worst) is 189.15%. After 2012 Greece’s debt (as a percentage of GDP) is set to get better year after year whereas Japan’s is set to continue getting worse

Japan is continually ruled by centralist and centre-right governments.

Japan cannot and will not come up with the answers to its problems while it continues to keep Capitalism on life-support.

Greeks say no to Fascism

Greece Fuck FascismBy Leon J Williams

300,000 Greeks and Greek immigrants have protested in Athens against the fascist political party ‘Golden Dawn’.

Golden Dawn had seen their popularity rise at the last election in part due to Greece’s severe economic woes but it hasn’t taken long for the Greek public to realise that fascism with it’s racist attitudes is not the Greek way. The failings of this ideology of pitting people against people was highlighted when Pakistani immigrant Shehzad Luqman was stabbed to death by two right-wing men in Athens.

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