Class Struggle n°36 · January 2001

As one might have expected, the prospect of an early election, generally expected within the next few months, has brought the issue of Britain's entry into the euro back to the top of the political agenda. Paradoxically, it was Blair who shot the first round in an attempt to …

For nearly ten years now, Sierra Leone's population of 5 million people has been the victim of one of the longest and most bloody civil wars seen in Africa over past decades. In wartime, rules of engagement are seldom designed to spare populations. But in Sierra Leone, there are no …

After a year which saw two military coups - one successful and the other a failure - all kinds of political twists and turns and several popular explosions, the long succession crisis opened up by former dictator Houphouet-Boigny's death in 1993, appears to have found a temporary conclusion. But this …

It took no less than five weeks after last November's presidential election for the name of the 43rd US president to be proclaimed. The detailed scrutiny to which the US electoral system was subjected during these five weeks exposed the fact that after all, the institutions of the world's "greatest …