#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #UK #LONDON #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) UK, London, AFED: The Cost Of Living Crisis - An Anarchist Analysis (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Intro ---- The cost of living has shot up recently, and looks like it will

continue to rise over the next couple of years. This increase will make life
harder for almost everyone besides the rich and powerful. Many who may have been
comfortably surviving previously will be forced into a precarious position where
one run of bad luck could throw them into poverty. Those already in poverty are
facing a disaster. ---- The last time we faced this kind of cost of living
crunch, during the 2008 recession, the British government chose to do very little
to help. In fact, the government played an important role in causing that rise in
costs, as it forced the cost of the recession onto everyone else while bailing
out the banks that caused the recession. This historical experience gives us no
reason to rely on the government to deal with the problem this time round.

As anarchists, we do not wish to simply complain about life getting harder and
the corruption and inaction of the state. Our politics are about direct action to
solve our own problems and to fight back against the state and the capitalists
who wish to exploit us. We aim to come up with ways that people can help each
other to get through this, and ways in which we can help each other to resist
state and capital as they try to force the costs of their inhuman system onto
those already at the bottom.

The first two sections of this piece will examine what is happening right now,
what is predicted to happen, and the lead up to the current cost of living crisis
from the 2008 recession. This section will involve a lot of boring statistics
that, while valid as of the start of May 2022, may be out of date by the time you
read this, although many readers will not need dry statistics to understand the
direness of the situation. The next two sections will examine why the current
situation has developed, and why nothing has been done about it by the
government. The last two sections will focus on what we can do about this, and
what the implications of such action are.

https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2022/05/17/the-cost-of-living-crisis-an-anarchist-analysis/#more-2244
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