Class Struggle
n°87
April 2010
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Britain - The working class, the general election and the crisis
As this issue of our journal goes to press, the campaign for the May 6th general election is coming to a close. With less than 2 weeks to go before polling day, everything has been said and done, all the tricks of the politicians' worn out election circus have been … - 2
Britain - Union leaders crawl back into their shells
Across the whole European continent, from Ireland to Latvia to Greece, workers have been reacting against a wave of attacks aimed at forcing them to pay for the capitalist crisis. They have been striking and going out in the streets to protest in large numbers. As a result they have … - 3
Britain - Postal workers junked by the CWU
It was primarily the bypassing of Communication Workers Union officials by Royal Mail management, which caused the leadership of the union to initiate the current dispute back in the Spring of 2009. This involved 130,000 workers in the Royal Mail Letters division. Almost a year later, after calling off … - 4
Britain - ”Unite”'s huffing and puffing at BA
In January 2009 British Airways boss, the notorious (ex-Aer Lingus) Willie "Slasher" Walsh, announced that 1,700 cabin crew jobs would be cut and that workers should agree to a 2-year pay freeze. He also said that BA intended to create a second tier workforce with considerably worse pay and conditions, … - 5
Ireland - The working class trapped between the crisis and the ”Social Partnership”
While governments across the world were hailing an "impending recovery" featuring a "return to economic growth", the year 2009 closed with the havoc generated by speculators betting massively on the Greek government going bust. Instead of the heralded "recovery", the very same financial mechanisms which had triggered the crisis in … - 6
Earthquake in Haiti - a natural disaster against the backdrop of a social disaster
The following article was translated from the journal of our French comrades of Lutte Ouvrière (Lutte de Classe, No 126 - March 2010). It describes the situation created in Haiti by the January earthquake and the attempts made by our Haitian comrades of the OTR (Revolutionary Workers' Organisation) to respond …