Class Struggle n°62 · July 2005

Blair's vow to "listen and learn" from the electorate lasted as long as it took him to make it. As far as he is concerned he has achieved an "unprecedented feat" for a Labour government in winning this third term, even if it was thanks to the gross distortion of …

The rejection of the draft European constitution in the referendums held in France and Holland certainly came as a relief to Blair. After having signed up to this draft, Blair and his ministers had repeatedly argued that since it changed nothing in the constitutional set up of members states …

In the build-up to the G8 Gleneagles summit meeting on 6-8 July, Blair was quoted as saying that it would "go down in history" for tackling poverty in Africa. But "tackling poverty" is hardly what the G8 is about to do. Never mind. These days Blair is concerned to project …

The June presidential election, which was meant to replace Iran's "reformer" president Mohamed Khatami, who was reaching the end of his maximum two consecutive terms in office, has wrong-footed most commentators. The arbitrary disqualification of more than a thousand declared candidates, including all women, by the regime's Guardian Council, …