Class Struggle n°75 · November 2007

The postal workers' fight against the latest attack on their jobs, conditions and pensions is not over yet, even if workers are at present being balloted over an "agreement" made between the union leaders and Royal Mail. This year, between June and October, they took their first official national …

The following article is reprinted from Class Struggle, the quarterly journal of the American Trotskyist group The Spark. From late August to early September, the media were inundated with reports on the "surge," the latest re-invention of the US war in Iraq. The "National Intelligence Estimate" was followed by …

In September, Myanmar (or Burma, as it used to be known) suddenly became a focus of interest for the media and governments of the rich countries. This was in response to a wave of street demonstrations against the regime, involving tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people, across the country. …

Since Ségolène Royal, the candidate of the French Socialist Party in this year's presidential election, lost to the right-wing candidate Sarkozy, the top spheres of the Socialist Party have been embroiled in a heated debate about the need to "modernise" this party by making it more palatable to the middle-class …