Class Struggle
n°73
July 2007
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Britain - From Blair to Brown - no change!
It was hard not to think of the Who's song "We don't get fooled again" during the drawn-out Blair-Brown transition. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". The whole process was like a carefully choreographed pantomime. Cinderella Brown's take over as Labour leader … - 2
Britain - A decade of Labour's state handouts to the rich
Gordon Brown's final budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented in March this year, was designed to provide the eye-catching headline of "tax cuts". But while the press focused on the 2% cut in the basic rate of income tax, the far more significant cut in this budget was … - 3
Britain - ”Private equity” - old yuppies in new suits
Private equity firms have been in the spotlight over the past few months. Probably what everyone knows about them is that one private equity boss, Nicholas Ferguson of SVG Capital, stated in the Financial Times at the beginning of June that the tax relief on capital gains tax allows top … - 4
USA - Vietnam and Iraq: poor men's armies fighting rich men's wars
Below we publish an article from the US group "Spark" (Class Struggle #55 - 05/2007) which discusses the US army, its class make-up and its soldiers' attitude to war - comparing the period of the Vietnam war 1964-1975 and the Iraq war and occupation. This is particularly relevant in view … - 5
Climate change - A greenhouse for capitalist profit
Climate change is certainly the most popular issue among British politicians these days - far more than, say, unemployment, housing, social injustice or poverty. Nor is this phenomenon specifically British. Every one among the world's political leaders is busy trying to develop some sort of climatological profile. And every …