Class Struggle n°19 · March 1998

As this journal goes to press, Clinton and Blair are said to be "considering" the agreement reached on February 22nd by the United Nations general secretary Kofi Annan and Saddam Hussein. Whether this will settle the so-called "Iraqi crisis" remains to be seen. But even if, for this time, …

In the seven weeks from December 27th, at least 16 people have fallen victim to sectarian killings in Northern Ireland. Most of them were targeted at random, for no reason other than that they happened to have been born in a catholic working class ghetto. Despite the "peace process", …

In December and January, the British papers carried several reports on the movement of unemployed workers which was taking place in France at the time. Most expressed utter dismay at what they considered as a "bad example", while some blamed the "Old Labour" policy of the French Socialist government for …

Just over a year ago, in the winter 1996-97, the South Korean working class came under the spotlight of the British media for staging its first general strike since 1948. The main demands were the repeal of a new law, which paved the way for increased labour flexibility and mass …

The Ramadan period was marked in Algeria by a new wave of terror which the GIA (Armed Islamist Group) - the faction of the Algerian islamist terrorist movement most radically opposed to the government - had widely heralded. A whole series of murderous raids, car bombings, ambushes and killings were …

The Russian economy is in a bad way. Even Yeltsin repeated this in his last radio address of 1997, at the same time as he condemned "privatisation at any cost". This was the least he could have done. In Russia, according to the figures supplied by the authorities, approximately …