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  • Bob Labi: Iran: New stage in revolution

    [Militant International Review, No. 17, Autumn 1979, p. 17-21] The rapid development of the Iranian revolution since the February 10/11 insurrection has demonstrated clearly that the Iranian masses saw the Shah’s overthrow as a green light for deepening their struggle for a better life. The past few months have shown how the tremendous pressure of…

  • Ted Grant: Die iranische Revolution

    [Militant, 9. und 16. Februar 1979] Letzte Woche gingen in einer der größten Demonstrationen in der menschlichen Geschichte mehr als drei Millionen Iraner*innen auf die Straßen Teherans, um die Rückkehr des religiösen Führers Ajatollah Khomeini zu begrüßen. In der vorigen Woche hatte es Barrikaden und Kämpfe von Arbeiter*innen mit der Armee gegeben. In Szenen, die…

  • Andrea Enisuoh: Why does education fail black youth?

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 33] Recent research on the achievements of ethnic minority pupils, by David Gillborn and Caroline Gipps. HMSO, 1996, £9-95. Reviewed by Andrea Enisuoh. The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) have released their review: Recent Research into the Achievements of Ethnic Minority Pupils. Spanning a period of major…

  • Clare Wilkins: New attacks on abortion

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 30-31] Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity, by Janet Hadley. Virago, 1990. Reviewed by Clare Wilkins Anti-abortion MPs are planning another attack on the provisions of the 1967 Abortion Act and the present 24-week time limit on abortion. This follows a summer of intense media interest in aspects of…

  • Naomi Byron: Burundi Killing Fields

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 10] The killing continues in Burundi. After three years of ‘low-level’ civil war in which around 150,000 have died, the country is slipping towards full-scale genocide. The latest cycle of violence began with the massacre of 350 Tutsis on 20 July at Bugendena, by Hutu militias. Less than…

  • Clare Doyle: Bitter defeat for Russian army

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 8-9] ‘The war is over!’ claimed Alexander Lebed, Russia’s security chief, as he emerged from talks with Chechen fighters’ leader, Aslan Maskhadov, on August 31. But had a formula really been found to end 20 months of savage fighting over Chechen independence? All federal combat troops were to…

  • Tony Saunois: EZLN meeting hits wrong notes

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 7-8] Thousands of delegates assembled from all over the world in Chiapas this summer to take part in the international conference against neo-liberalism called by Mexico’s Zapatista guerillas (EZLN). The assembly took place at the same time as the leaders of the official Left in Latin America were…

  • Socialism Today: Clinton’s futile barbarism

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 2-5] Seizing the opportunity created by the blunders of US imperialism and fighting between rival Kurdish factions, Saddam Hussein has effectively taken back control of northern Iraq. The UN-sponsored ‘safe haven’ is now controlled by Saddam’s new allies, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), led by Barzani. This is…

  • Margaret Jones: Selling the System

    [Socialism Today, No 1, September 1995, p. 24-27] Modern advertising is selling us more than products, says Margaret Jones. It’s also selling us dreams, illusions and insecurities – and the capitalist system. In the war year 1942 social critic Erich Fromm wrote of the callous triviality of radio commercials: a city was bombed, with thousands…

  • Phil Hearse: Israel-PLO deal in Crisis

    [Socialism Today, No 1, September 1995, p. 8-9] In September 1993 PLO leader Yasser Arafat appeared on the White House lawn with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, and US President Clinton, celebrating the Mid-East peace deal. Two years down the line, the accords secretly negotiated in Oslo are in severe crisis, threatening the…