Class Struggle
n°10
January 1996
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France - The class struggle is back, with a vengeance
The strike wave which spread over France in the last week of November and the first half of December was probably the largest in Western Europe since 1968. Hundreds of thousands of workers, possibly over a million at the highest point, took part in the strike itself, with a large … - 2
France - The union machineries in the strike
Rather than a collection of strikes, the strike wave should really be described as one single strike, in so far as this wave was the result of a single process which was initiated from above. Indeed the strike wave began and spread as a result of a determined drive by … - 3
France - A brief chronology of the strike wave
10 Oct - "Day of action" called by 3 main unions in public sector over wage freeze and austerity. Massive participation by civil servants, patchy in public services, nil in the rest of the public sector. Rouen university declares a strike against education cuts. 14 Nov - "Day of action" … - 4
Britain - Scargill's proposed Socialist Labour Party - A Labour Party Mark II?
If the plans announced last November by the miners' leader Arthur Scargill come to fruition, a new "Socialist Labour Party", as he intends to call it, should be launched on May Day this year. If this attempt proved successful and a sizeable working class party was formed on the … - 5
Nigeria - After Ken Saro-wiwa's hanging, the regime's unresolved crisis and the calls for ”sanctions”
The hanging of Ken Saro-wiwa and eight other leaders of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), on 10th November, pushed the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha once more into the international headlines. Protests were staged across the world outside Nigerian embassies and environmental groups - …