17. Highlights that new forms of poverty touching the middle and working class are arising in some cases where difficulties in paying mortgages and high energy prices are creating energy poverty and increasing evictions and foreclosures; is concerned by evidence that levels of homelessness and housing exclusion are increasing; recalls that this represents a violation of fundamental rights; recommends that the Member States and their local authorities introduce neutral housing policies that favour social and affordable housing, tackle the issue of housing vacancy and implement ...[+++] effective prevention policies to reduce the number of evictions;

17. Highlights that new forms of poverty touching the middle and working class are arising in some cases where difficulties in paying mortgages and high energy prices are creating energy poverty and increasing evictions and foreclosures; is concerned by evidence that levels of homelessness and housing exclusion are increasing; recalls that this represents a violation of fundamental rights; recommends that the Member States and their local authorities introduce neutral housing policies that favour social and affordable housing, tackle the issue of housing vacancy and implement ...[+++] effective prevention policies to reduce the number of evictions;

It was amazing that in a country that was run by the working class, the very working class had to go on strike to fight for their basic rights.

I support my fellow socialists from the Committee for Workers International in the region who call for elections to a new parliament but make clear that nothing will change unless workers and the rural masses have their own candidates and independent working class party to reverse the disastrous privatisations of the last 20 years, to tackle neoliberal capitalism and to institute real democratic change and new institutions controlled by working people and with genuine planning of the economy and a Socialist Federation of Central Asia.

They attract what my colleague Dan Small has called “wounded individuals”—not working class, upper-middle class, and middle-class people who are injecting cocaine or heroin in a party atmosphere one might see as self-indulgent, but people with profound substance abuse and mental health problems.

Our experience from a year-long research report we've just completed is that it's clear that, not just for middle-class women but for working-class women, the reality is that child care is entirely unaffordable, inaccessible.