Class Struggle n°17 · October 1997

By the time this year's Labour party conference is over, Blair will have completed his first 150 days in government. As this journal goes to press, just as the conference begins, an unprecedented number of motions hostile to various aspects of Blair's policy have been submitted by local organisations. …

Over the past period, the share of the national income represented by the wages of workers in employment has been shrinking regularly while the share earned by the capitalist class has been going up in comparable proportions. Given the alleged reduction of unemployment over the past few years, this …

The eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano, on the southern Caribbean island of Montserrat, and the resulting plight of the island population might have gone largely unnoticed in Britain had it not been for the foul-mouthing of the islanders by Clare Short, the new Labour secretary for International Development. In …

So the Northern Ireland "peace process" is back on track, or so we are told. Yet no sooner had the talks been re-opened in Stormont on 15 September - this time with Sinn Fein's participation - than the old charade restarted all over again. For a full week all …

Three months after the 1 June general election which resulted in an unexpected victory for the left-wing parties, we reproduce below an assessment of the situation in France published in the October issue of Lutte de Classe, the monthly journal of Lutte Ouvrière, the French organisation of the ICU. …