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The Great Depression

1934: year of the fightback

Posted on 31st March 2009 by ISJ

There was a great strike wave in the US in the aftermath of the First World War. It was beaten back with the decisive defeat of a rank and file driven campaign to organise the steel industry.1 Brutal repression was… Continue Reading →

Analysis The Great Depression, USA

The slump of the 1930s and the crisis today

Posted on 2nd January 2009 by ISJ

“We are on the edge of the abyss. One slip and we will be into depression like that of the early 1930s.” That message has been repeated a thousand times in one way or another since the banking system imploded… Continue Reading →

Analysis Economics, The Economic Crisis, The Great Depression
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