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The session on responding to the economic crisis saw a productive discussion of strategies for encouraging working class resistance.

RMT debates the way forward Around 120 people attended a conference in London last Saturday on the crisis in working class representation.

The protests that have shaken Greece are a sign of things to come. Initially over the shooting of a teenager by police in Athens, demonstrations and riots spread across the country, threatening the future of the government and crystallising the depth of bitterness and anger among working class people.

Gordon Brown has been stung by remarks from Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, who described Britain’s response to the economic crisis as "crass Keynesianism".

The Thai ruling class is seriously split. The royalist People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) is set against supporters of the government and populist leader Thaksin Shinawatra.

I always say that if Obama was delivered to the White House with Jesus Christ, a five-piece band and six gilded seraphims holding up his fucking balls he still won't be able to do anything because the country's broke and Congress is bought and sold.

The global ruling class is caught in the grip of panic and confusion. Until only recently there were hopes that the world’s newly emerging economies – such as China and others that had undergone rapid growth – could offer a way out.

Looking at where the people on the British National Party (BNP) list live – and the kinds of jobs they do – tells us a lot about the nature of their support.

A complex and highly contentious issue in education has been raised by a recent study. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and a government agency, the National College of School Leadership, have produced a report looking at how to improve educational achievement among white working class pupils.

Engaging with Obama I work at Liverpool University and on Wednesday of last week I was due to teach a class of 100 students about poverty in 19th century Britain.

Last week we saw how neoclassical economists argued that "free markets" would lead to a stable situation where everything was shared out as fairly as possible.