Steel: Strike action required Steel industry correspondent Miles Todd explains that industrial action is the only way to prevent massive job losses.
A Global Steel War? On Wednesday March 6, President Bush imposed tariffs as high as 30% on most steel imports coming to the US from Asia and Europe. This will hit European steel makers hard, especially in Britain where there is a slump already in the steel industry. In periods of capitalist economic downturn, national interests predominate over international. Bush is supposedly a supporter of the "free market". But the Wall Street Journal called the tariff "perhaps the most dramatically protectionist step of any president in decades."
They think it's all over - is it? They think it's all over. The capitalist media is saying that the world capitalist economy, led by the US is recovering fast. Indeed, they say, there was no economic recession or downturn at all - or if there was, it was hardly noticeable. Michael Roberts investigates the truth of this idea.
