Class Struggle
n°58
November 2004
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Britain - After the invasion, Blair now wants to join in for the killing
When the government revealed Washington's latest request for British soldiers to be sent from Basra into central Iraq, in order to relieve the overstretched US occupation forces, there was widespread opposition. Opinion polls showed a 2 to 1 majority of the British public against agreeing to Washington's demand. Nevertheless, … - 2
Britain - The civil service under Brown's hatchet
This 5 November, the first national 24-hour civil service strike in 11 years took place. The protest was called, "in response to massive government cuts", to use the words of the main civil service union, the PCS. These cuts involve a total of 104,150 civil service jobs - 84,150 in … - 3
USA - After the presidential election
Bush finally kept his tenancy of the White House. Until the last minute, the Republican candidate and his Democrat rival, John Kerry, still appeared neck and neck in every opinion poll. But in the end, the anti-Bush feeling on which Kerry and his supporters in the trade-union bureaucracy had based … - 4
US election - What the Democrats did to implement the Bush agenda
During the last three-and-a-half years of the Bush administration, the US government has carried out one attack after another against the working population in favour of the wealthy. The US is now engaged in two big imperialist "adventures" in Afghanistan and Iraq, this generation's version of the Viet Nam War. … - 5
US election - The unions and the ”lesser evil”
On the eve of the Democratic Party convention in July, President Andrew Stern of the country's largest union, the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), gave an interview to David Broder of the Washington Post, publicly expressing frustration with Kerry and more generally with the Democratic Party and its readiness … - 6
Germany - Six years of anti-working class policies under an SPD government
Over the past months, a series of large demonstrations and strikes have taken place in Germany. In July, 80,000 Daimler-Chrysler workers staged a warning strike. There were stoppages held by Volkswagen workers throughout the summer. In October, 10,000 Opel workers occupied the Bochum production site for 6 days despite the …