Immediate Threats to the Working-Class

[Positivist]

What are the most immediate and direct abuses, or categories of abuse, suffered by us workers and our communitites? I am interested specifically in general misdeeds perpetrated by banks, corporations, and governments, such as foreclosures and police brutality. Any input will be greatly appreicated, but please refrain from refering to distant abstractions that most workers would struggle to relate to. Thanks to all in advance for your assistance!

[The Idler]

Wages.

[AnaRchic]

The stagnation of wages in conjunction with the rising cost of living and the ever-encroaching atmosphere of austerity. In other words, the fact that I can work 55 hours, 7 days a week and still barely be able to make ends meet.

Those of us in the lowest most underpaid segment of the working class face the real threats of malnutrition and poor living conditions. Many of us have had to turn to crime just to balance our income with our expenses. It is brutal out there for us right now.

Revolution isn't a utopian ideal for me, its a practical necessity worth fighting for.