Class Struggle
n°127
May 2026
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After the 7 May local elections, the cat's among the pigeons!
The results of the 7 May local elections in England and the assembly elections in Wales and Scotland, set several cats among the pigeons in Westminster. The Labour Party got one of its worst set of results ever. And Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the country for the past 22 … - 2
Is the British far right growing beyond its traditional strongholds?
The second "Unite the Kingdom" march organised by Tommy Robinson on 16 May, bringing ~60,000 onto the streets - which is around half as many as the first Unite the Kingdom demo in September last year - coincided with the annual pro-Palestine march to commemorate the Nakba. There had been … - 3
On the 100th anniversary of the General Strike
The 1926 General Strike remains the one and only true general strike in British working class history. It ended in defeat after only 9 days. But it could have won. Its defeat was engineered by the leaders of the Trades Union Congress, in full collusion with the capitalist class and … - 4
The United States “vs” Europe: the rivalries of imperialist gangsters
The following article was translated from an article appearing in Lutte de Classe #254, March 2026, the political journal of Lutte Ouvrière, the French Trotskyist organisation.While President Donald Trump's foreign policy initiatives may seem arbitrary and disorganised, they have a clear aim: to reassert the hegemony of American imperialism …