Class Struggle n°112 · April 2021

Three days after this article was written, on 28 April, Arlene Foster, first minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, resigned. Most of the DUP’s Assembly members, 4 DUP Westminster MPs and one unionist peer signed a letter of no-confidence against her. Evidently she has not …

When Britain’s Medicine and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved the Pfizer/ BioNTech vaccine on 2 December, before any other country in the world, pro-Brexit politicians jumped on the opportunity to claim Britain was first because of Brexit.     In fact any EU country could have done the same thing. Even …

Before the pandemic, analysts were already touting 2020 as “the year of the electric car”. It certainly seems to be turning out that way: apparently Britain has just overtaken France to become Europe’s second largest electric car market with 31,800 electric cars sold in the first quarter …

This article is translated from the journal of Lutte Ouvriere: Lutte de Classe, issue 214 – March 2021 The Paris Commune was declared 150 years ago. As Marx famously stated, Parisian proletarians “stormed heaven”, overthrowing bourgeois social order. After 72 days, the embryonic workers’ state they had established …