Class Struggle
n°90
January 2011
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Britain - the bosses' offensive and the necessary fight back
The year 2010 ended with corks popping out of the usual expensive champagne bottles in the City. And why would it have been otherwise? Hadn't share prices gained a comfortable 11% over the year, bringing them back to their June 2008 level? Hadn't 2,800 financial high-flyers, each "earning" a £1m-plus … - 2
Britain - youth vs the Con Dems: the ”street” can undo what politicians have done...
Last year's 10 November student demonstration in London against the Con Dems' education cuts and trebling of university tuition fees, caused a huge furore by taking a rather riotous detour into the Tory Party's Millbank headquarters, Indeed, the big, angry, march, called by the National Union of Students and … - 3
Ireland - the working class as ”collateral damage” of the on-going tremors of the crisis
On 7th December 2010, the Irish parliament adopted, by a tiny majority, the annual budget drafted by Brian Cowen's ruling Fianna Fail-Green Party coalition, as part of its "National Recovery Plan". This was the country's fourth austerity package in 3 years - the most drastic in some respects. Officially, … - 4
Afghanistan - a bloody search for an elusive political settlement
As it enters its 10th year, there seems to be no end in sight for the war in Afghanistan. Yet, just a few months ago, Obama was still claiming that US troops would start pulling out in July 2011 and it was taken for granted that the British government would … - 5
USA - School privatisation: an attack on the working class
This article, which we reprint from the quarterly journal of the US Trotskyist group The Spark (Class Struggle #68 - Nov-Dec 2010), describes the crisis in the US "public" school system. Unlike here, "public" actually means what it says: state-funded, non-fee-paying schools! And in particular, the article looks at the …