Every government in the world is facing a popular mass-strike revolt, similar to the current uprising in the United States, as populations being smashed by the global economic breakdown explode in rage at their leaders.

In the U.S., popular rage at Obama’s continuation of Bush’s multi-trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street and the City of London, has now spilled out onto the streets. (Click here to view video footage)

Americans voted for Obama for “change” from the disaster years of Bush and Cheney, but are now turning on him, after seeing that he not only continued the bailout, but intends to pay for it by slashing health care funding for the elderly and disabled.

Obama and his fellow Democrats, riding high on public opinion only a few short months ago, have been driven into virtual hiding by constituents who’ve descended on public health care reform meetings in droves, to put their representatives on the mat.

Last week, Obama cancelled a series of public meetings scheduled to discuss health care, and read a three-minute statement from his teleprompter instead, before fleeing to a “holiday”, to regroup, and emerge to address a carefully-vetted audience in New Hampshire on 11^th August.

The media, which seduced Americans to vote for Obama’s empty rhetoric through a massive PR campaign, is now falsely typecasting what is a spontaneous outpouring of popular anger, as an organised right-wing campaign, to further isolate Obama from the consequences of his betrayal.

U.S. Democratic Party senior-statesman and physical economist Lyndon LaRouche observed today that the U.S. leadership is behaving like Louis XVI of France, who, when confronted with a mass revolt triggered by widespread poverty and hunger, brought in 100,000 Austrian troops to put it down.

This declaration of war on his own people only further fuelled the uprising; Louis and his government then fled into hiding, which provoked the bloodbath of the French Revolution:

“This is a crisis, like that of the French Revolution, in which, in a vacuum, created by the absence of competence from the Executive—only panic and stupidity from the Executive! —and the lack of competence from other elements of government, has created a vacuum, which can lead to the most terrible consequences,” Mr LaRouche said.

Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood today warned Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that he too risked a mass-strike revolt:

“Australians are being smashed by the global economic breakdown crisis, and Rudd is doing nothing to fix it,” Mr Isherwood said.

“Instead, he has committed the nation to hundreds of billions of dollars in debt, to fund bank guarantees and stimulus packages which are only about bailing out the financial system, and pushed ahead with a ‘carbon trading’ and ‘health care reform’ agenda, which will kill people.

“He has not only rejected LaRouche’s and the CEC’s solution of a bankruptcy reorganisation of the system, but he has rubbished the national banking and debt moratorium policies of his own party’s heroes, John Curtin and Ben Chifley—leaders who truly fought for the common good.

“Rudd better change his policies, and go back to ‘old’ Labor’s people-first economic policies, or it will soon blow up in his face,” Mr Isherwood concluded.