'SUPERPOWER RETAKES GUTTED CITY' was last week's Observer headline. Just 15 months after the 'new world order' was proclaimed by killing 100,000 in the Iraqi desert, the US ruling class faced the humiliation of an uprising of the poor and oppressed in its own cities.
In Germany hundreds of thousands of striking public sector workers have just given Chancellor Helmut Kohl a bloody Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall the media have announced the final victory of capitalism. But world capitalism as an economic system is failing badly.
The economic crisis is hitting Britain hard, and new attacks on the unions and welfare state are being quickly prepared by Major's governemt. After Labour's election defeat, neither the Labour nor union leaders have any answers The Labour leadership election, after the undemocratic exclusion of Livingstone and Grant, is becoming a farce. Neither Smith or Gould have anything but empty platitudes to offer.
Germany and the US show it is possible to fight back. The German workers won despite harsh anti-union laws. Waiting for the next general election, perhaps as far away as 1997, is a useless option for British workers. Now is the time to fight!