Class Struggle
n°100
October 2013
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Britain - ”One Nation” Labour bids to serve big business
Despite the clamour of Tory media pundits, bizarrely portraying Labour leader Ed Miliband as "Red Ed", what actually came out of this year's Labour Party conference was in shocking contrast to the aspirations of Labour's working class supporters, given the severe deterioration in their living conditions as a result of … - 2
Britain - Royal Mail floats - with the CWU on board
It finally happened. 52 % of the "Royal Mail Group" was sold by the government in a public share-offering, with the first conditional share trading taking place on 11 October. The government provisionally held onto 38% of the shares, with an additional 10% set aside for the postal workforce. It … - 3
Britain - Only one possible ”alternative”, revolutionary communism
In view of what some consider as a right-wing turn in Labour's policy - although it is only the continuation of its evolution over the past two decades - there have been several initiatives (the "People's Assembly" and "Left Unity", among others) aimed at building a … - 4
The crisis - Raising the banner of the proletarian class struggle
The present article, originally published by our comrades of the French organisation "Lutte Ouvrière" (Lutte de Classe issue #154 - Sept-Oct 2013) draws the balance sheet of the world capitalist crisis, in order to discuss the present political tasks it imposes on revolutionary communists. There is no point in … - 5
Syria - The civil war and the games of the world powers
The following article is translated from the monthly published by our comrades of the French organisation "Lutte Ouvrière" (Lutte de Classe issue #154 - Sept-Oct 2013). The purported use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad's regime against Syrian rebels on August 21st was the cause of a serious international …