Class Struggle
n°96
July 2012
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Britain - banking, another bailout for a delinquent system
The package of measures which was announced by George Osborne in his Mansion House speech, on June 14th, was worth a total £140bn for the banks. Out of this amount, £80bn will go to a "funding for lending" scheme (the "credit easing" already announced in the April budget), while another … - 2
Britain - nationalism has no place in the working class movement
All too often, British union leaders have resorted to nationalist flag-waving to defend "British" enterprise against "foreign" competition - conflating the interest of the bosses with those of workers. In addition, more or less xenophobic campaigns have been launched against the use of foreign contract labour above "British" labour, or … - 3
Britain - from the eurozone crisis to euroscepticism and xenophobia
Since the eurozone crisis began, in late 2009, eurosceptics have been raising their profile, within the Tory party as well as to the right of the party, from UKIP to far-right groups. So much so, that within the Tory party itself, the in-fighting caused by the mushrooming of eurosceptic think-tanks … - 4
United States - the political and social situation before the presidential election
The following text published by the American Trotskyist organisation The Spark (Class Struggle #74 - April-June 2012) outlines the political situation in the US in the run-up to the November presidential election, in which Barack Obama will be standing for re-election Recovery? only for the bankers and other capitalists …