Class Struggle n°11 · May 1996

So far the policies of Tony Blair's "New Labour" have been revealed mostly in fits and starts, in general as a function of the media impact expected by Blair's spin doctors. Very often, the statements made were contradictory due to the difficulties experienced by Blair's team in getting their frontbenchers …

For over half-a-century, Scottish nationalism has been represented, with varying success, by only one significant organisation - the SNP (Scottish National Party) - which was both respectable and moderate. Over the past period, however, due to a number of different factors, the attitudes of the other parliamentary parties towards regionalist …

Seventeen months after declaring a ceasefire, the IRA brought it to an end on February 9th. The spectacular explosion of a first bomb in Docklands, the same evening, killed two men working in a newsagents and smashed thousands of windows in East London. Then a bus was blown up in …

News footage keeps coming in, showing the on-going battle for the control of the suburbs of Sarajevo which used to be the strongholds of the Bosnian Serb forces. Today this battle is no longer fought with guns and rockets but by setting houses on fire in order to force the …

Earlier this year, the old scare story about the threat of a flood of Chinese immigration from Hong Kong into Britain re-appeared in the media. This time, what triggered the tabloid hysteria - which was duly relayed by the Tory right-wing - was the announcement made by Major during a …