Class Struggle n°120 · December 2023

The latest United Nations’ resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza - in order to get Washington on board - now contains the word “sustainable”.    But what does “sustainable” mean? Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, along with Germany’s foreign affairs minister Annalena Baerbock, explained this in the Sunday Times this …

Next year, 70 general elections are due to take place in different countries all around the world. Or 69, if Rishi Sunak decides to take the next British election to the wire and waits until January 2025.    From his point of view, since his government is bound to lose, holding …

[Translated from the monthly journal of our sister organisation Lutte Ouvrière: Lutte de Classe n°236 - December 2023-January 2024]What’s happening in the economy is not one of its “normal” more or less regular crises which have always been the way in which the capitalist system regulates itself.    Today capitalism …

[This article was written by the American Trotskyist group known as the Spark for their monthly journal, Class Struggle issue 117, on 11 November 2023]Nearly 70% of those recorded in opinion polls say that the economy is in bad shape and that their own economic conditions are getting worse. …

South Africa’s general election will take place next year - the sixth since the end of apartheid. The ruling African National Congress - the “party of Nelson Mandela” - is likely to do badly.    Polls published at the end of November predict a vote as low as 33% - a …

Today the Israeli state’s policy implemented against the Palestinians is quite rightly called “apartheid”. It certainly looks like it in every respect. But these two apartheids are not the same: the size of the Israeli and Palestinian populations occupying the whole territory is roughly equal (around 9m). The white minority …