Class Struggle
n°23
November 1998
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Britain - Rover's blackmail over jobs and the fight against the profit drive
This year's Birmingham Motor Show, at the end of October, was not just the usual prestigious event designed to promote new (and not so new) models that most people cannot afford to buy. The tone of the newspapers' headlines that followed the show was indeed more down-to-earth: "Ford chief … - 2
Chile - Twenty-five years after
General Pinochet was placed under arrest on the 20 October while undergoing medical treatment in a London clinic. 25 years after his bloody coup in Chile, on 11 September 1973, his responsibility in the deaths of tens of thousands of opponents and the torture experienced by many more, in the … - 3
Congo - Torn apart by armed groups and imperialist rivalries
Seventeen months after Kabila's accession to power, his newly- founded Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) is already plunged into a horrific war. Since the end of July, the rebellion of the Banyamulenge, an ethnic group of Tutsi origin who live in the Congo, has spread from the Kivu … - 4
Kosovo - Destruction, killing and displaced populations
Since the break-up of Yugoslavia and the outbreak of the war between Serbia and Croatia in June 1991, the territory of the former Yugoslav federation has been a permanent battlefield. This Serbian-Croatian war was followed by the war in Bosnia, which started in April 1992 with the siege of Sarajevo …