Class Struggle n°24 · January 1999

The participation of the RAF in the US air raids against Iraq, in December, had a particular significance. For the first time since they came into office, Blair's Labour government had to choose a policy, not just in terms of rhetoric, but in terms of military action. Once again the …

January 1st saw the launching of the euro. The new "euro- zone" includes eleven European Union countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain). The four other member states of the Union (Britain, Denmark, Greece and Sweden) are to stay outside for the time being, …

Since Labour came into office, "public-private partnership" has become one of its central policies. Labour proposes to implement this contradiction in terms - which Thatcher, during her regime, had decreed as the basis for a newfound, "classless" prosperity. Following in her footsteps, Labour has to this end given wealthy businessmen …

The Brazilian presidential election took place last October. There was no need for a second round as the outgoing centre-left president, Cardoso, who had the support of most of the right-wing parties, won an absolute majority and was therefore re-elected for four years. This election took place against the …

The following article was translated from Pouvoir aux Travailleurs (issue #261 - Sept 1998), the monthly journal published by our comrades of the African Union of Internationalist Communist Workers. Nobody yet knows what the details of the new legislation on land ownership will be, not even the government, …