Class Struggle
n°123
December 2024
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Editorial – Syria, Palestine and the Starmer government: “securing the borders”
Within 24 hours of the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime on the 8 December, the British Home Office had already “paused” the processing of political asylum applications from Syrian refugees. Sure, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper admitted that “the situation in Syria [was] moving extremely fast”, but so anxious … - 2
2024 US elections: Democrats pay the price for a rotten economy
The following articles were written by the US Trotskyist organisation known as “Spark” in 2024 - just after the US elections. It's a “rout” - that's what headlines claimed the day after the election. Trump was said not only to be winning the popular vote by a big margin, … - 3
The revolutionary fight of the working class for a shorter work week
This article about the fight for the 8-hour day in the US was also written by “Spark” the American Trotskyist group. Here in Britain the same fight to limit the working day was influenced by the American activists of 1886. One of its greatest protagonists was Tom Mann, former revolutionary … - 4
Algeria: workers face increasing repression, but fight back!
This article is translated from the monthly journal of Lutte Ouvrière, Lutte de Classe No. 243 November 2024: “les travailleurs face au durcissement du régime”. On 7 September presidential elections were held in Algeria. Elected in December 2019, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had promised to build a “new Algeria”. At … - 5
Italy: the Meloni government's policy for Africa
This article appeared in the Lutte de Classe journal No. 242 in September 2024 - translated from the original Italian written by comrades of L'Internazionale (Italy - Internationalist Communist Union) in Lotta di Classe n° 43, May 2024. At the time of publication of our current journal, Home …