Class Struggle
n°63
September 2005
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Editorial: From Iraq to Louisiana, the bloody chaos of an exploitative system
It is impossible not to see a link between the catastrophe faced by the US population which lives along the Gulf of Mexico, after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and the catastrophe experienced by the Iraqi population since the US-British invasion. On the face of it, the two situations … - 2
Britain - Gate Gourmet dispute: workers' solidarity versus bureaucratic manoeuvres
The sacking of 667 Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow this August caused the first significant sympathy strike by other workers that has taken place for over a decade. Around 1,000 British Airways luggage handlers, loaders, cargo handlers and air crew drivers, suddenly and without warning, instead of arriving at work, … - 3
Britain - After the London bombings - no amount of cover-up can conceal Blair's criminal policies
That Blair's policy of military aggression in the Middle East would backfire eventually was never a matter of "if". It was always only a matter of "when". To claim that the 7th July bombings had nothing to do with Iraq is to bury one's head in the sand. But in … - 4
Britain - A bigoted offensive against women's right to abortion
The call to reduce the present 24-week legal time limit for abortions has been getting a lot of publicity again this summer. On this occasion, largely thanks to the latest phase of an on-going campaign by the conservative newspaper, the Daily Telegraph. It claims there is now powerful public support … - 5
Northern Ireland - The IRA's ending of its ”armed campaign” and the ”peace process”
On 28th July, at a press conference in Belfast, an IRA spokesman read a statement announcing that the IRA's army council had "formally ordered an end to the armed campaign" and "authorised our representative to engage with the IICD (Independent International Commission on Decommissioning) to complete the …