Class Struggle
n°93
October 2011
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World crisis - Only the working class can break the vicious circle of capital's parasitism
Since the stock markets went into a downward spin last August, reducing the paper value of shares by £3,360 billion worldwide, the spectre of the famous "double-dip" recession has been haunting Britain - just as much as the rest of the world. This was widely expressed over the following … - 2
Britain - August riots, the symptom of a social crisis
The rioting which broke out in London on August 6th, spread almost instantly to many other parts of the country over the next 3 days. It exposed an ever-deepening social fracture, a consequence of decades of cuts and private profiteering at the expense of public welfare and jobs. The measures … - 3
Britain - Planning reform: strangled by a green belt?
The critical shortage of affordable homes has become the excuse for a whole host of new government legislation - which does anything but solve it, and is not meant to solve it, but certainly is meant to make real estate developers very happy. The latest government proposals are in … - 4
USA - Millions of jobless - a catastrophe produced by capital’s drive for profit
The following article was originally published by the US Trotskiyst comrades of The Spark group (Class Struggle #71 - Aug-Sept 2011) Two years into the official economic recovery, 34 million people, or 23 per cent of the working age population, are either unemployed or working part-time, often at minimum-wage … - 5
India - The communist parties' long walk to reformism
The following article is the first of 2 articles looking at the evolution of the communist movement in India. The sequel will be published in our next issue (#94), due to be published in January 2012 In May this year, India found its way into the inside pages of …