Class Struggle
n°13
October 1996
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Britain - The election, ”New Labour” and the trade- union link
The vote-hunting season is already in full swing. It opened in the summer in the form of a second-rate poster-size comic "strip", that of Saatchi & Saatchi's "demon eyes", and it is bound to unfold as an even greater farce over the next months - a farce which has already … - 2
Britain - Summer strikes - the trade union machineries reassert themselves
The prolonged disputes which took place in various public services during the summer provoked indignant comments from the media. The papers complained over the number of working days "lost" through strike action - which had risen, compared to the all-time low of 1994 - and went on to make the … - 3
Britain - Militant Labour and the ”mass socialist party”
Over a year ago, the takeover of the Labour Party by Blair's "New Labour" leadership prompted a number of activists within the left of the Labour party, but also within the revolutionary left, to call for the setting up of a "new mass socialist party" and initiate a debate on … - 4
Kurdistan - The Kurdish people, victims of the imperialist order and their own leaders' policy
Since April 1991 and the end of the Gulf War, the Kurdish region in the north of Iraq, had up to now, enjoyed relative autonomy. This period is probably now over, after the fighting in early September which saw Iraqi army troops and those of the Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani … - 5
Zimbabwe - The working class' resistance to Mugabe's regime
Two decades or so ago, Zimbabwe (or Rhodesia as it was still called at the time) used to be the subject of regular coverage and headlines in the British media, as the last of Britain's colonies in Africa to go through the process of decolonisation. In the 1960s, the …