Class Struggle
n°61
May 2005
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Britain - The 5 May election could achieve nothing for workers, but the class struggle can.
On May 5th, Blair finally got his comeuppance, of sorts, at least. This is incomplete, in that he gets away with remaining in office, without facing the headache of a hung parliament or the humiliation of an even more catastrophic turnout than in the last election, contrary to what had … - 2
Britain - MG Rover, Ford, BMW, Peugeot - whether ”cow-boys” or car giants, the capitalists are all ”rogue” bosses!
When the owners of Phoenix Venture Holdings announced they had put MG Rover into administration, on the night of 7 April, the 6,100 workers of the Longbridge factory were confronted with the immediate prospect of redundancy - and it looked as if they were not even going to get paid … - 3
Iraq - The west's bogus ”democratic” process - myth and reality
When, on 28 April, Bush hailed the appointment of Iraq's new government as "real good progress in Iraq", he deliberately ignored some rather important "details". Indeed, the fact that it had taken almost 3 months since the 30 January election, for the Iraqi National Assembly to finally … - 4
France - On the referendum over the European Constitution
In the early days of the election campaign, Blair pledged that if he was re-elected he would organise a referendum over the draft European Constitution. This came as a relative surprise as, up to that point, Blair had always argued that there was no point in organising a referendum, since …