Class Struggle
n°72
March 2007
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Britain - The profit explosion
Many public sectors workers must have felt outraged when, on March 1st, they heard Brown stating in the Commons, that their pay increase this year would be less than half the 4.2% official level of inflation - meaning a pay cut across the board for all. Especially as Brown had … - 2
Britain - Child poverty and inequality: the cost of Labour's policies
In February this year, Unicef's "reportcard" rating the general well-being of children in 21 OECD countries, placed Britain at the very bottom of the league. So the fifth largest economy in the world, going by GDP, and one of the richest in Europe, deprives its children more than any … - 3
Iraq - Blair's troops reduction - now you see it, now you don't! Four years of a bloody quagmire.
Blair's 21 February statement, announcing that 1,600 British troops were to be withdrawn from Iraq, was yet another conjurer's trick. Because, contrary to what most of the media implied, when and how this withdrawal is to be carried out, remains anybody's guess. Indeed, Blair steered clear of setting a … - 4
USA - Car industry scam: GM, Ford and Chrysler cry all the way to the bank
Over the past year or so, the US car giants have all been "crying wolf", in order to justify massive programmes of job cuts and factory closures. The truth, however, is that this is no more than an elaborate scam designed to impose drastic cuts on workers' conditions. The present …