Class Struggle n°53 · November 2003

If it were not for the extravagant prominence given by the media to the Tory Party's protracted in-fighting, Blair's policy in Iraq would have been, once again, under the spotlight, over the past weeks. The charade of the Hutton enquiry may well have helped to give Blair a breathing …

At 3.30 am on Monday 3 November, the leaders of the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) stitched up a deal with Royal Mail bosses, which effectively stabbed in the back the 25,000 or so postal workers who had been staging an unofficial strike, in some cases for over two weeks. …

For months a section of the British left has been embroiled in a polemic over the attitude that revolutionaries should have towards religious organisations - or to be more precise, towards Islamic organisations. This issue was first raised during the run-up to the war in Iraq, when the Socialist …

$$pThe following article is reprinted from the "Class Struggle" quarterly (issue #41 -October 2003) published in the US by the Spark comrades. On the very day that United Auto Workers leaders and company officials signed the final auto contracts, having ushered them through ratification votes at Chrysler, Ford & …