Class Struggle n°94 · January 2012

We are now almost 5 years into the current economic crisis. And the bosses have already had plenty of time to cut workers' numbers, increase work intensity, cut breaks and benefits, reduce pensions, replace permanent with casual labour, etc. Having done all, or most, of that (even if there is …

The two articles which follow have been written by comrades from the US Trotskyist group "The Spark". The first article gives a useful explanation of the background and some detail on the concessions demanded by the Detroit 3 - Ford, GM and Chrysler. It also provides a snapshot of …

From Class Struggle #72 published by "The Spark" group - July 30, 2011 "Don't expect to get back any of the concessions you gave up in 2005, 2007 and 2009!" That's the message the three Detroit auto companies sent to workers as contract negotiations began. Chrysler let the Detroit …

From Class Struggle#72 published by "The Spark" group - Aug 1, 2011 Wall Street certainly approves of the 2011 UAW contracts with GM, Ford and Chrysler. Standard and Poor's upgraded GM by one notch, and Ford by two - just two days after each contract was ratified. Almost every …

Since the gruesome pictures of colonel Gaddafi's execution were shown on television, on October 20th last year, Libya seems to have all but disappeared from the radar of the British media. And much the same can be said of British ministers. Or, to be more accurate, the only references …

In the first part of this article (Class Struggle issue #93 - October 2011), we described the beginning of the political deterioration of Communist Party of India (CPI), the party which had been originally built by the Indian communist activists, through their intervention in the struggles of the working class …