Class Struggle n°47 · November 2002

While Western warmongering against Iraq shows no sign of weakening, the great powers' oppressive policies across the world keep backfiring again and again, just as they did in the US with the 11 September attacks. Indeed, there is a link between the bloody events which took place in October …

Over the past few months a series of spectacular nea-bankruptcies and production hiccups has highlighted the dire state of the electricity industry twelve years after privatisation. It began last May with the announcement by BE (British Energy, the world's largest private nuclear power generator) that it had made £493m …

Over the past few months, occupational pension schemes have been under sustained attack by the bosses. One major company after another, from the large banks like HSBC to retail chains like Sainsbury, has been announcing the closure of pension schemes to new entrants or, as with the Big Food Group …

The present article is reproduced from the quarterly published by the Trotskyist group "The Spark" in the USA (Class Strugggle #37 - Nov 2002) Practically from the moment the planes hit the World Trade Centre, right up to today, September 11 has been used to justify a wide-ranging attack …