Class Struggle n°104 · February 2015

"If elections could change anything, they would be abolished", as the saying goes. The coming 7th May general election will only confirm this "founding principle" of the capitalists' "democratic" system! Whichever party majority or coalition comes out of the ballot box, its policy will be to carry on …

We reproduce here extracts from an article published by our French comrades of Lutte Ouvrière in their monthly journal (Lutte de Classe 166 - March 2015). Some of the questions raised by this article, which was written on 18 February, have been answered since. In particular, on 23rd February, …

The expulsion of the 338,000-strong National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa), from the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on the 7 November 2014 was no surprise. Commentators had been talking about potential rifts in Cosatu for months, if not years. But a formal break such as this, in the …

With its 52 million inhabitants crowded into a territory about 40% the size of Britain, on the eastern coast of China facing Japan, South Korea is portrayed as a capitalist "success story" in every respect, both economically and politically. Economically, the western media point to the fact that although …

"By picking up at least a dozen House seats in last week's elections, the Republicans cemented a nearly unassailable majority that could last for a generation..." - this was the conclusion of a New York Times article analysing the 2014 elections. Maybe. But the fact is, the Democrats still have …

The American Trotskyist group The Spark, decided to stand 5 candidates in the US general election last November, in a single state, Michigan. They did so with the objective of using the electoral platform to address the concerns of the working class, and to provide workers in these constituencies …