2011 is the Year of Mass Upheaval Through Out the Glob and It Seems It Will Continue 2012

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Israeli protests, July 2011 Providing solutions to the various hardships of the middle classand lower class in Israel (such as housing costs, cost of living and the erosion of the middle

class and lower class)

The 2011 Israeli housing protests (Hebrew: or " or ) are aseries of ongoing street demonstrations taking place throughout Israel from 14 July 2011onwards. The protests began as a result of aFacebookprotest group that initially ledhundreds of people to camp in tents in the center ofTel Aviv onRothschild Boulevard, anact which soon gained momentum, media attention and began a public discourse in Israelregarding the high cost of housing and living expenses. Soon afterwards, the protestsspread to many othercities in Israel as thousands of Israeli protesters began camping intents in the middle of central streets in major Israeli cities as a means of protest. Theprotesters object to increasing housing prices in Israel, and especially in the country's major

cities, which they claim preventsaffordable housing

Male, Maldives demanding that PresidentMohamed Nasheed step down. Police were sentin to break up the protests.

Myanmaron 13 February 2011, coordinating via a Facebookpage titled "Just Do It AgainstMilitary Dictatorship

In Turkey supporters of BDP, the main pro-Kurdish party, have demonstrated against theTurkish government before and after the general elections.

In Bolovia there was uprising against the rise of prices of essential commodities.

archipelago state ofFiji, under military rule since2006

As a continuation of the 2011 Spanish Protests, the largest protests took place in Spain,where more than a million people took the streets on 15 October, including 500,000 in

Madrid,

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350,000 in Barcelona, and 150,000 in Zaragoza. In Madrid, protestersreoccupied the Puerta del Sol square where the Indignados had camped five months earlieron 15th May. As in protests elsewhere, slogans on signs included "We are the 99%","United for Global Change" and "Human Rights for Everybody". [12]

2011 Rome demonstrationAt least 300,000 under the banner of "People of Europe: Rise Up!" gathered in the centre ofRome,
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regional elections in May last. Japans Prime Minister has resigned under public pressurefor having failed to tackle the rising economic problems. But what is important for thesuffering people seething in anger to understand is that desired emancipation from all evilseven certain relief from the stifling condition is not to come by if there are just sporadicoutbursts of amorphous masses or the ruling dispensati

Under the slogan No toausterity, priority to jobs andgrowth the European Day of Actiontook place mainly in the streets ofSpain and Belgium, and Ireland,Italy and Poland, to demonstrate theworkers concerns and to fight forjobs in European manufacturingindustries. Spain has held a general

strike, with protesters in Barcelonaclashing with police and torching apolice car. Strikes have disruptedsome French trains and schools asunions across France plan protestsagainst government austeritymeasures. The austerity package hasmet with fierce opposition inPortugal. Anger of the Germanpeople over the second Greekbailout shows no sign ofdisappearing. A German tabloid Bildran a picture of a Greek bannercalling Angela Merkel, Germanchancellor and Nicolas Sarkozy,French President Nazis. Lastmonth, thousands of people took tothe streets of Tel Aviv in Israel toprotest soaring housing prices, highcost of child care, hospitalovercrowding and above all, the

Apprehension is that ifGreece is not bailed out, the crisismight well spread to some of thelargest Eurozone economies andeven the UK, which, though amember of European Union ishowever outside Eurozone. That is


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why, the European powers and theIMF agreed to a 110 bn loan forGreece, 85 billion rescue packagefor Ireland, a 78 bn bail-out forPortugal and a 54 bn package for

Italy. Apart from that, a furtherpackage of 219 bn ($296 bn or190 bn) has been agreed upon byEurozone leaders. This only showshow grave is the crisis. Situation hascome to such a pass that even thehard core bourgeois economists areadmitting that, the globalimbalances that led to the crisis the vast trade deficits and debts never went away despite claim of

recovery and no one believes it canever be back to business as usual forthe global economy. Now, if USfollows suit, no weirdness, trickeryor sorcery can rescue capitalism.

unlimited war spendingtogether with liberal grant of bailoutand stimulus packages to themonopoly-controlled banks and FIsand inexplicable tax relief to theswelling-coffer owners has beentriggering huge budget deficits inthe US to finance which, it has noalternative but to go for increasedmarket borrowing even exceedingthe limit of its capacity to repay.And the same story of financingbudget deficits by raising unlimitedloans is turning other capitalistimperialistcountries of Europe andAsia insolvent.

Everywhere, the governmentswho are lavishly providing funds tobankrupt and corrupt corporates andmonopoly houses so much so as tomake the countries to be in the state


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of being auctioned, are squeezingpeople further in the name ofausterity and drastic cut in publicspending, usually on areas thataffect not just public employment

but often essential or desirablesocial services as well as subsidiesto public utilities.

In US itself, unemployment andunderemployment went up to touch30 million mark, an all time record.The total figure of job loss in theUS is around 8 million since the

recession began in December 2007.The official US poverty rate is now15% which amounts to 44 millionpeople or one out of seven.Unemployment in UK has reached2.51 million, highest ever.According to Britains leadingeconomic think tank, except for therichest 2 per cent it is the workingfamilies and the sick and the poorare bearing most of the pain.France where officialunemployment figure is nearing10%, the government hasannounced plans to cut spending by45bn euros over the next threeyears. Germany plans to cutsubsidies and lakhs of job cuts. InSpain, unemployment has doubledover the past three years and publicsector employees are facing a paycut of five per cent. In the publicsector, Italy has been cutting payand freezing new recruitment. Onlyone employee will be replaced forevery five who leave. The impact ofthe crisis on the Russian economyhas been both swift and severe. InJanuary, Russian GDP shrunkalmost 9% and industrial production


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by 16% on year on yearbasis. Japans high suicide rates arelinked to rising unemployment. Thelist is so long that it could fill up therest of the pages. And everywhere it

is the common people, the havenotswho are the casualt

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