Class Struggle
n°105
July 2015
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Britain - Osborne's turn of the austerity screw
Osborne's "Summer Budget" on July 7thstarted off with the usual nationalistic self-congratulatory nonsense about Britain's alleged achievements on the world scene: "we're growing faster than any other major advanced economy... faster than America, faster than Germany and twice as fast as France", etc. This time, at least, … - 2
Britain - answering the housing question
Everyone has heard of the latest housing bubble here in Britain. Never mind the fact that the 2007 banking crisis, sparked by greed-led speculation on sub-prime mortgages in the USA, is hardly over yet. Of course, the on-going housing crisis here feeds on and is in turn fed, by … - 3
Turkey - Mounting social discontent
The June 7th 2015 general election marked a relative setback for Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP party, for the first time since it first came to power in 2002. The pro-Kurdish party HDP, which stood as spokesperson for a number of opposition currents, won 13% of the vote - more … - 4
Yemen - Saudi Arabia's bombings and the fake pretext of an ”Iranian threat”
While in Syria and in Iraq the population is caught in the crossfire between Islamic militias and imperialist bombs, at the southern end of the Arabic Peninsula, the Yemeni population is being subjected to a similar onslaught, even though this has attracted much less attention from the media. Early … - 5
Mexico - government and gangs against the population
On the night of September 26th 2014, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, a convoy of buses carrying students from a nearby teachers college was ambushed by local police in the town of Iguala. The police shot and killed six people, wounded more than 20 and "disappeared" 43 students. …