Class Struggle n°52 · September 2003

At the time of writing, the Hutton Enquiry is about to reopen, after four weeks of hearings, in order to examine a second series of witnesses. Predictably, the whole process is proving to be an exercise in buck-passing and issue-fudging. After all, Lord Hutton's brief was merely to investigate …

For the past 12 months, the political scene has been dominated, first by Blair's warmongering, and then by his invasion and occupation of Iraq. But meanwhile, behind the scenes quite another sort of war has been going on here in Britain - one waged against working class people by the …

Six months after the beginning of the war in Iraq, there is no end in sight for the imperialist occupation of the country. The past tales about "peace and reconstruction" and "restoring democracy" have long been forgotten by politicians in London and Washington. Instead, this occupation has increasingly been taking …

The civil war in Liberia has been and remains one of Africa's longest and bloodiest civil wars. Not only has it plagued Liberia itself for almost two decades. It has also engulfed neighbouring Sierra Leone for a whole decade and seriously threatened the political stability of a string of other …