Class Struggle
n°121
May 2024
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Editorial: Labour waits in the wings, while the Tories act out their last scene
The circus in Westminster's House of Commons gets more raucous by the day. The latest defection of a Tory to the Labour Party - this time Natalie Elphicke, Member of Parliament for Dover, where Rishi Sunak's bugbear, those "small boats" carrying asylum seekers come ashore, caused some unexpected hilarity in … - 2
The 1984-85 miners' strike 40 years on, what lessons are there for us today?
[The following article is the text of the talk given on 7 April 2024, to mark the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike] As everyone in the room probably knows, this strike, which lasted a full twelve and-a-half months, all out, ended in a catastrophic defeat. Not because it … - 3
The social and political situation as American capitalism moves towards wider war
Life expectancy in the US population is dropping, and has been since 2010, with most of the decline concentrated in the labouring population. That's no quirk in the statistics. It is symptomatic of the widespread attacks the capitalist class has carried out on working people over the last five decades … - 4
The economic crisis in the USA
[This article, and the article which follows it, were texts written for the annual conference of the Spark group - a Trotskyist organisation in the US, with whom Workers' Fight has an informal fraternal relationship] Last year we talked about a new financial crisis that had broken out. A … - 5
Chinese capitalism: facing its own contradictions and facing imperialism
[This article first appeared in the political journal of Lutte Ouvrière - Lutte de Classe #237, February 2024] Since the Covid crisis at the end of 2019, the Chinese economy has been facing a number of difficulties from which it seems unable to extricate itself. But this crisis is …