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Peter Taaffe: “Militant” and the Communist Party
(Militant No. 447, 16 March 1979 p. 11) The communist Party has invited a number of different left-wing newspapers to contribute articles for their fortnightly magazine ‘Comment’. The following article from Peter Taaffe, editor of ‘Militant’, appears in the current issue of ‘Comment’. ‘Militant’ welcomes this opportunity to outline our differences with the CP and…
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Peter Taaffe: Memoirs of Stalin’s Master Spy – The myth of the great war leader exploded
(Militant 401, 14 April 1978, p. 8-9) In the second part of his review of ‘The Great Game’, Peter Taaffe covers Trepper’s recollections of the great purge of ‘Old Bolsheviks’ and Stalin’s disastrous military policies at the beginning of the second world war. In ‘The Great Game’, Leopold Trepper provides a graphic picture of how…
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Peter Taaffe: The Mods and Rockers Problem
(Militant No. 1, October 1964 p. 7, of course we wouldn’t use the N-word today) Peter TaaffeWalton YS If the king of Prussia once said of his peasant army, “We are lost once the bayonets begin to think,” then the capitalist class and their mouthpieces in the press must repeat this a thousand times in…
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Peter Taaffe: Apartheid ends – a new chapter opens
(Militant International Review, No. 55, January 1994) Militant Labour’s general secretary Peter Taaffe recently visited South Africa. Here he assesses the perspectives ahead. 27 April, the date for South Africa’s election, will see the long nightmare of apartheid finally ended. That hated system, set up in 1948, merely codified and widened the racial segregation which…
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Peter Taaffe: Can Labour win?
(Militant International Review, No. 39, Spring 1989) By Peter Taaffe The guiding principle of Labour’s leadership has been ‚NUNGE‘, (Nothing Until after the Next General Election). Indeed it has at times been their only ‚principle‘! Any attempt to go outside the prescribed narrow parliamentary boundaries has evoked the wrath of Labour’s front bench. In the…
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Peter Taaffe: The church and the struggle for liberation
(Militant No. 449, 30 March 1979, p. 6) The second of three articles In last week’s ‘Militant’, Peter Taaffe analysed the role of Islam in the Iranian revolution. In the second article he looks at developments within the Catholic Church in Latin America over the past two decades. The ‘Economist’ recently pointed out that “Since…
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Peter Taaffe: The Church and the Mosque – is there a Religious Revival?
(Militant No. 448, 23 March 1979 p. 11 [I think we would today not use the term ‚Islamic church‘]) The first of three articlesBy Peter Taaffe A vast crowd of three million people turned out to greet Ayatollah Khomeini when he returned to Iran. One and a half million people welcomed the Pope when he…
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Peter Taaffe: Liverpool’s struggle-Lessons for the movement
(Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986) In studying and analysing the Liverpool experience all workers can prepare themselves for similar movements in their own areas. There will be many ‚Liverpools‘ throughout Britain, only on a more gigantic scale „By the mid-1980s the Conservatives saw Liverpool as the power base of the Militant Tendency. And…
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Peter Taaffe: USA Today
(Militant International Review, No. 57, August 1994) Militant Labour General Secretary Peter Taaffe, a recent visitor to the US, examines the perspectives for the world’s greatest superpower. ‚The American tradition is based on expectations of rising wealth. Large parts of the population are now faced with the reality of being poorer than their parents or…