Class Struggle
n°30
January 2000
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Britain - Livingstone's bid for mayor and the revolutionary left
At the time of writing it is still unclear whether Ken Livingstone will be standing on the Labour party ticket in next May's mayoral election in London, or as an independent - as he threatened to do some time ago - or indeed whether he will be standing at all. … - 2
Britain - Racism and the union machineries at Ford-Dagenham
The Ford-Dagenham estate, in East London, made headline news last September and through October. It all began in the papers' inside pages, with an unusual Industrial Tribunal decision: on 23 September, Ford was declared liable for the serious racist abuse of a Dagenham Engine plant worker, Sukhjit Parmar. Within … - 3
Britain - Public education under attack
In the run up to the 1997 election, Labour promised that they would "make education their number one priority". Education, said Labour, was the Tories' biggest failure. At the time of the election, they argued, Britain had fewer 17 and 18-year olds in full time-education than any major … - 4
Russia - Yeltsin's succession and the war in Chechnya
Everything went very fast: on 1 October, Russian president Yeltsin and his new prime minister Putin sent their army into Chechnya; on 19 December, they won the general election; and twelve days later Yeltsin handed over power to Putin as interim president. On the same day - 31 December … - 5
Pakistan - After Musharraf's coup
On 12th October 1999, units of the Pakistani army occupied the strategic points of the country's main cities. Prime minister Nawaz Sharif was put under house arrest, the national and provincial governments and assemblies were disbanded, as well as the Senate, and the constitution was suspended. Thereafter, the army chief …