Class Struggle n°84 · July 2009

The "green shoots of recovery" that we heard so much about lately, are to the profit system what pink elephants are to LSD: it takes a certain dose to even catch a glimpse of these beasts! However, looking at the economy with the eyes of the 2,000 Teeside Corus …

With the working class under direct attack in this crisis, the union leaderships cannot avoid being seen to make some kind of response -even if their role in upholding and defending working people's interests has long since been a matter of rhetoric. For over two decades, the name of …

The following article was first published by the US Trotkyist activists of "Spark",in their quarterly journal, Class Struggle (issue #62) Since the economic crisis began, the Bush administration and then the Obama administration have handed trillions of dollars over to the banks, financial companies and big corporations in one …

In the early months of this year, two general strikes swept the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Although uncoordinated, the two strikes were closely related. There were objective reasons for this. Not only are the two islands very close to one another and very similar in size and population …

The general election in April this year in South Africa was the fourth multiracial election in the country's history - it is just 15 years since that historic first election, which brought to power the African National Congress led by Nelson Mandela in 1994. This time, it was an …