Class Struggle n°51 · July 2003

More than seven weeks after Bush proclaimed the "end" of the war in Iraq, the announcement that six British soldiers had been killed in a gun battle with Iraqi demonstrators, in the small town of Majar al-Kabir, north of Basra, on 24 June, came as a shock for many people. …

Blair's kowtowing to Bush and his unconditional support for US warmongering, first against Afghanistan but mainly against Iraq, has left many Labour party members and supporters with a sense of deep betrayal. This sense of betrayal is not just due to the reactionary nature of Blair's warmongering - after all, …

Today's British union leaders seem to be falling over themselves to be seen as members of the so-called "awkward squad". Behind this label used by most commentators these days - from the mainstream media to the far-left - is the desire by a section of the union leadership to be …

The period between mid-March and 19 June saw the largest wave of industrial protests in France since the Winter of 1995, when a railway strike developed into a full-scale mobilisation across the public sector. This time, the spearhead of the protest was education workers. However, the series of national …

Luiz Inacio da Silva, who is better known under the nickname "Lula", took office as Brazil's president on 1 January 2003 - at the same time as his appointed government. For four months now, Brazil, a huge country of 170 million people spreading roughly over half of South America, has …