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When Katrina flooded New Orleans, the
working-class poor, mostly African-Americans, were abandoned to their
fate. ‘Relief’ later arrived in the form of military occupation, like
Baghdad under water. Katrina turned the spotlight on US capitalism’s
social disaster of class polarisation, poverty and racism. Bush, writes
LYNN WALSH, now faces a political storm.
‘For the economy, these results are a disaster’,
said the chief executive of Altona AG, Nikolaus Schweickart. The
capitalists’ hopes of stepping up attacks on the rights of workers and
unemployed people under a conservative/liberal coalition government have
for now sunk into the chaos of post-election Germany. The only victors
are the left and the protest movements against neo-liberal policies.
SASCHA STANICIC, general secretary of Sozialistische Alternative (SAV –
CWI Germany), reports.
After the
horrific bombings in London on 7 July, suspicion and blame was levelled
at the whole Muslim community. Racist attacks and police harassment have
increased. The government is pushing through increasingly repressive
legislation. HANNAH SELL reports.
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TUC conference
Left speeches but where's the action?
Japan
Koizumi's landslide victory
Egypt's election farce
Not even a veil of legitimacy
Katrina
Was climate change a factor?
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Venezuela
A year after the recall referendum, what dangers threaten the
revolution now? Christine Thomas writes.
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