pensions

The Chinese Communist government is planning to raise its retirement age for the second time in its history.

The Zambian government passed a law on April 17 that allows citizens to cash out up to 20% of their pensions early. The resulting hit to government finances as claimants raced to pull some $300 million out of the National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) is threatening to topple Zambia’s finances, and endangering a debt relief deal it has been working on since 2020.

Communists around the world observed a relatively subdued May Day holiday on Monday, with some large marches and plenty of vacations but few fireworks. 

Electricity to buildings visited by Macron on his nationwide PR blitz keeps mysteriously going out, but it’s nothing fossil fuels can’t fix.

French President Emmanuel Macron is less popular than ever before with the general public, polling has revealed.

French President Emmanuel Macron has signed his pension reform bill into law after rioting on the streets of Paris.

French protesters reportedly piled trash outside France’s Constitutional Court on Thursday as anti-Macron riots in the country continue.

Over half a million people took to the streets of France on Thursday in another firey protest against Emmanuel Macron’s government.

Protesters in Paris stormed a building housing BlackRock amid ongoing demonstrations against President Macron’s pension reform plans.

Left-wing members of the French opposition have written to President Emmanuel Macron asking him to “give up” on his “disastrous” reform of the country’s pension system.

Over 1,000 law enforcement officers and firefighters have been left injured while combatting rioting in France, the country’s interior minister claimed Saturday.

Confidence in French President Macron has fallen to its lowest level since the 2018 Yellow Vest protests, as Marine Le Pen’s right-wing populists surge.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), when he served as Pennsylvania state Treasurer, oversaw investments worth over $31 million in 2006 from the state worker pensions into a Chinese government-backed firm, which has since been considered a national security threat.

Violent protests continued in Paris again on Tuesday on the tenth straight day of demonstrations against the globalist Macron government.

France remains in a state of chaos on Tuesday as the 10th straight day of union strikes is marked by fuel-pump shortages and government infighting.

Former French President François Hollande has blamed his successor, Emmanuel Macron, for the ongoing riots in France.

“You’re so lucky to be sitting there, now that we’ve arrested you,” one officer was reportedly recorded saying. “I swear, I’d have broken your legs, literally. I can tell you, we’ve broken elbows and faces… but you, I’d have broken your legs.”

Five people have been arrested by French police after the doors to the city hall of Bordeaux were set on fire on Thursday evening amid ongoing country-wide protests against increasing the state pension age.

French President Emmanuel Macron has “trampled on democracy” amid ongoing protests by forcing bills through parliament without a vote, an EU MP has claimed.

Opposition parties in France are to make an attempt to remove the Emmanuel Macron government from power via a vote on Monday

France has yet to see real violence amid the ongoing anti-Macron riots happening in the country, France’s answer to Bernie Sanders has told journalists.

Motions of no-confidence were filed on Friday after President Emmanuel Macron’s government used a loophole to try to pass its pension reform.

The French government was thrown into chaos after it used a constitutional loophole to pass a rise to the retirement age without a vote.

The malodorous perfume of rotting food has begun escaping from some rubbish bags and overflowing bins as the strike goes on.

The seventh trade union-organised nationwide protest in France against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the French retirement age saw “angry” confrontations with police in Paris, as the legislation cleared a key hurdle in the Senate.

Riots and economically damaging activist actions broke out in France amid large protests against President Macron’s pension reforms.

Demonstrators marched across France on Tuesday in a new round of protests against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64.

Macron has vowed to go ahead with the bill, which aims to raise the country’s minimum retirement age, despite nationwide demonstrations and strikes and opinion polls consistently showing a majority of French people oppose the change.

Some demonstrators walked as families through the French capital’s Place de la Republique and carried emotional banners. “I don’t want my parents to die at work,” read one, held by a teenage boy.

Despite the conventional wisdom that immigration can support an ageing population, the British government – which has been importing migrants on a massive scale – appears poised to increase the state pension age earlier than expected.

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is on track to see a record number of resignations and retirements this year.

Italian retirees could be forced to present their coronavirus health pass in order to access their pensions in person.

Spanish populist party VOX is being investigated over a campaign poster that compares monthly spending on migrant minors to monthly spending on Spanish pensioners.

Time and time again the “Bolivarian, Socialist, Anti-Imperialist, and Profoundly Chavista” Revolution has stylized itself as a champion of the elderly

The $1.9 trillion “COVID relief” bill proposed by President Joe Biden and approved by Democrats in Congress “will erase the majority of San Francisco’s projected $650 million budget deficit over the next two years,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Delphi workers who had their pensions slashed during the Obama-Biden administration’s auto bailout say Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden had seven years as vice president to represent their interests but chose not to.