Class Struggle n°122 · October 2024

While attending the Commonwealth summit in Samoa, a Pacific island which is drowning because of climate change, Keir Starmer reacted to the Israeli bombing of Iran with his now stock answer - that “Israel has the right to defend itself”.   He then added in the same breath, that …

Forty years ago, on 12 October 1984 - when British miners were 7 months into their 13-month strike against pit closures - the Irish Republican Army set off a bomb inside Brighton's Grand Hotel. Their target was Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who, along with dozens of Tory colleagues, was …

The following article was translated from Lutte de Classe No. 242, September 2024, the monthly journal of our sister organisation, Lutte Ouvriére. It discusses the political situation after President Emmanuel Macron’s “snap” general election and the last-minute tactical manoeuvres which blocked the election of far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidates, thus …

A war has been raging for almost thirty years in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - a war virtually ignored by the world's media. Between 6.5 million and 10 million people have been killed and over 7 million displaced. This was why the DRC's national football team took the …