Class Struggle
n°65
January 2006
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Britain - NHS free-for-all... for healthcare capitalists, that is!
Blair's Secretary for Health, Patricia Hewitt, claims that Labour's planned 10-year reform programme for the NHS is on track. Everything should be in place by 2008, for a "patient-led NHS", with "patient choice", "money following the patient", and "diverse" provision of care, from both the public and the "independent" … - 2
Britain - ”Pension reform” - a life-buoy for capital, paid for by the working class
After three years of apparently painstaking efforts, the report of the "Pension Commission", chaired by former CBI director-general Adair Turner, finally came out in the first week of December 2005. Once again, what has been branded for years as the "looming pension crisis" was all over the newspapers' front pages. … - 3
Iraq - Another ”democratic step” towards... more massacres
Early in the New Year, Bush announced proudly, that following the "democratic milestone" marked by the 15 December Assembly elections in Iraq, he intended to withdraw "thousands" of US troops. It soon transpired, however, that the plan was merely to bring US forces more or less back to their pre-election … - 4
Egypt - The wear and tear of Mubarak's regime
The following article is translated from the journal published in France by our comrades of "Lutte Ouvrière" ("Lutte de Classe" #92 - November 2005). It has been marginally updated in order to reflect the events which occurred since it was originally written. Following president Hosni Mubarak's uneventful re-election, on …