Class Struggle
n°101
March 2014
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Class Struggle n°101 · March 2014

Great BritainWorkers' Fightquarterly
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    Britain - The 1984-85 miners' strike and today's need for a fightback

    The following short article is the text of the editorial of the Workers' Fight workplace bulletins, which were published during the week starting on March 10th, 2014. It marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the miners' strike, in March 1984. We believe that the issues raised by this …
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    Britain - The politics of prejudice

    British politics have been in electioneering mode ever since the 2010 General Elections, when the Tories' failure to win an overall majority in the middle of a major economic crisis left them with no option but to form a coalition with the Liberal-Democrats in order to avoid having to rule …
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    Ukraine - The petty-bourgeoisie, the bureaucracy and the West's power games

    The following article which we publish here, was translated from the monthly of our French comrades of Lutte Ouvrière ("Lutte de Classe" #158 - March 2014). Written on February 21st, it describes the process which led to the Ukrainian crisis and the ousting of the country's president, Yanukovych. Since …
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    South Africa - The pre-election balance sheet

    South Africa's fifth general election since the end of white rule, scheduled for the 7 May, is taking place just 5 months after the death of Nelson Mandela and 18 months after the massacre of 34 striking platinum miners at Marikana by the state police. These two events will pull …
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    USA - Ford - ”People's Tycoon” and vicious exploiter

    It's a hundred years since Henry Ford started the first car assembly line in Detroit, USA. This was followed shortly afterwards with his first venture outside the US - a factory located at Trafford Park, outside Manchester - the first of many Ford plants to be built in Britain and …