Class Struggle
n°57
September 2004
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Britain - Blair and the TUC gearing up for the general election
Blair's usual speech at this year's TUC conference did not get exactly a standing ovation - just plain silence. What else could he expect? He was certainly lucky to avoid the humiliation of being jeered by the audience in front of the media and the insult of being confronted with … - 2
Britain - NHS - the only ”choice” for patients is to feed the profit sharks
The NHS is obviously a key battleground for the two main parties in the run-up to the coming general election. So, by the end of June this year, when both Labour and Tory councillors and MEPs had been variously and resoundingly unseated in the May/June 2004 local and European elections, … - 3
Iraq - A western-made bloody civil war
To say that Iraq is descending into civil war is not to say anything new. It has been a fact at least since the beginning of April this year, when a wave of insurgency broke out simultaneously in the so-called "Sunni Triangle", with Falluja as its focal point and in … - 4
Sudan - The war in Darfur - imperialism's cynical hypocrisy
Last June, the western governments and media suddenly turned their attention toward the bloody war which was taking place in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. Harrowing reports appeared on TV and in the newspapers. They described how government troops and local militias had combined in pursuing a scorched-earth policy, …