Class Struggle
n°81
November 2008
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Britain - NOT A JOB, NOT A PENNY, for the profiteers and their crisis!
The papers may well talk about the present recession as a sudden "bust" following what has been a long period of "boom" for profits. But for workers it has, on the contrary, been a period of near permanent "bust"! After all, where did the super-profits come from in the first … - 2
The economic crisis - Towards a generalised crisis of the capitalist economy
Events have been moving fast since the credit crunch overspilled into the stock markets at the beginning September - hitting the banks first and then most of the major companies - until eventually both in the US and in Britain, governments formally admitted that the economy was now in recession. … - 3
Afghanistan - Seven years into a worsening quagmire
For most of the past seven years, the issue of Afghanistan may have been relegated to the inside pages of the newspapers, but the country has nevertheless been the scene of an on-going war. The invasion of Afghanistan, on 7 October 2001, was designed to show America's shocked public … - 4
USA - Roosevelt's ”New Deal” - big state bailout of big business
Since the present crisis broke out, there have been numerous references to the "New Deal", the policy implemented in the 1930s under president Roosevelt. More often than not, particularly in trade- union and Labour circles, this policy was presented as a model of sorts and the best possible way to …