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With the economic recession dragging on in Western countries these days, businesses continue to go bankrupt and accordingly the unemployment rate has rocketed.

In Australia, the number of the unemployed rose by about 34 000 persons between August and September.

The country’s statistics bureau reported that unemployment has peaked since November 2021.

The number of the unemployed is more than 1.5 million in Canada and over 3 million in Germany.

In Finland, unemployment reportedly rose by 10 percent in August, reaching a peak since it began to produce statistics.

The number of the unemployed in the country has increased by 53 000 over a year ago and in particular, unemployment of its people under 30 has soared by over 60 percent.

Ford Motors of the US announced that it would cut 4 000 jobs by the end of 2027, as its profits have dramatically decreased with a steady decline in car sales.

The unemployment crisis worsens in Western countries because their monopoly capitalists give precedence to profit seeking over the right to existence of the working people.

The working masses are suffering extreme hardships in their life due to the economic stagnation and extreme gap between the rich and the poor.

According to a recent report of the Statistics Bureau of Italy, more than 5.7 million people in the country suffered from extreme poverty last year.

In the southern part, about 886 000 families experienced severe living difficulties, with the highest poverty rate of 10.5 percent in the country.

The poverty rate in California, the US, was the highest in the country last year and in particular, that of children more than doubled the figure in 2021.

In Britain, over 10 million people are suffering from poverty.

In this country, the rich are a handful of capitalists, accounting for one percent of the population, and the poor are the overwhelming majority of the working people, accounting for 80 percent of the population.

Discrimination against women is also a serious social problem.

In Britain, the wage of female workers was reportedly about 7 percent less than that of male workers in April this year.

Such gaps also have a serious effect on the education of children.

Eton College, a private college in the UK which is known for its stellar education, charges students £40 000 a year for school expenses and so the children of ordinary working people do not dare to enter it.

At present the number of students attending schools with high educational levels in the UK is only 6.5 percent of the total number of students in the country.

Western society, where a handful of privileged classes monopolize the power and assets and impose absence of rights and poverty on the broad working masses, is indeed a human rights desert where the rich get ever richer and the poor get ever poorer.