Class Struggle
n°116
October 2022
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An unprecedented wave of strikes
The wave of strikes over pay and jobs not only continues, but appears to be growing. Strikers are demanding pay rises in line with inflation and an end to attacks on their jobs and conditions. The general cry is “Enough is Enough!”, the slogan of an official union-led campaign against … - 2
Can the Truss government survive?
Just-elected Tory Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will probably never live down their 23 September “mini-budget” which crashed the pound to near parity with the dollar at $1.03. This forced the Bank of England to launch an emergency purchase of gilts to save pension funds and calm … - 3
Unite the Union: new leader, new unionism?
Unite the Union’s new leader, Sharon Graham, like the railway workers’ leader Mick Lynch, is being held up as an example of a new kind of trade union leader, “determined to win for workers”. She heads the country’s second largest union of around 1.3m members and has been … - 4
The British monarchy: a “glorious” feudal class in 21st century trappings
The queen’s funeral on 19th September was the biggest death-festival the world has ever seen. And the most costly, although the estimate, according to the website Full Fact, is anything from £8m to... £6bn (!) - since at their time of writing, apparently the police hadn’t yet handed in their … - 5
The world economy: from one crisis to the next
Translated from ”Lutte de Classe” #226 September-October 2022, the journal of our French sister organisation, Lutte Ouvrière. This summer, barely twelve months after the world economy emerged from Covid-induced paralysis, there were signs of a further slowdown. In the wake of rising commodity prices and the war in Ukraine, growth …