Class Struggle
n°109
July 2017
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France - A new president and a revamped political framework for waging war against the working class
On May 7th, Emmanuel Macron won the run-off in the French presidential election with 66.10% of the vote, against 33.9% for the candidate of the far-right National Front, Marine Le Pen. This was an unusually large majority by recent European standards, especially for an outsider who did not have the … - 2
Britain - While a weak and unstable May limps into Brexit, the working class has to prepare for the coming battles
Theresa May won the June 8th election, but it was, at best, a Pyrrhic victory. Her government is now much weaker and more unstable than it ever was. Calling this snap election was a political gamble for May and she's lost it.Instead of the much larger majority she was … - 3
Britain - Corbyn's Labour and the (Br)exit of the Left
The recent developments on the political scene in Britain have thrown usually clever commentators and political pundits into a mild state of confusion. After all, it was one thing getting the result of the 2016 EU referendum completely wrong, but they also lost their bets on Theresa May's "snap" election … - 4
Britain - Grenfell Tower: murder by neglect and profiteering
We will probably never know how many actually died in the Grenfell Tower fire, in the early hours of 14 June. At the time of writing, the official death toll stands at 80, but the investigation of the building by firefighters is still far from over and the police have … - 5
Britain - The Southern Rail strike against DOO
The dispute over Driver Only Operation (DOO) on Southern Rail must be one of the longest-running "strikes" in British working class history.Waged by guards in the RMT union and train drivers in Aslef, it has been going on for 15 months already - and is still not over at …