Class Struggle n°91 · April 2011

The number of people who went on the 26th March demonstration against the cuts is estimated to have been between 250,000 and 500,000! That speaks for itself - maybe a quarter of a million, maybe half a million - it was so big that nobody seems to have been able …

For more than two decades, the capitalist class and their politicians, whether Tory or Labour, have been looking for ways to make the working class pay more for lower pensions, thereby reducing labour costs for employers, while squeezing more profits out of the pension system for the so-called finance "industry". …

The first missiles to hit Libya were launched by US and British warships at 9pm on 19th March, just a few hours before the 8th anniversary of the first missile launch of the Iraqi invasion, on 20th March 2003. Whether this coincidence was due to a cynical oversight by military …

As this journal goes to press, the wave of protests which started in Tunisia, on 17th December last year, still remains at the forefront of the political scene in the vast area that we will designate for the sake of convenience as the "Arab world" (even though this label is …

Throughout the industrialised countries, the capitalists' attacks against the working class all share the same objective - to force the working class to foot the bill of the crisis. Likewise, the policies of union machineries across these countries share similar features. They have all been making the choice of underwriting …

In the middle of March, it was reported that the British state-owned Northern Rock bank had resumed emitting the very same opaque (and potentially toxic) financial instruments which had caused its initial demise. However, Northern Rock is not the only player in this game, not even among the state-controlled part …