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John Pickard: U.S.A. Perspectives
[Militant International Review, No 19, Spring 1980, p. 19-24] In the mid-term Congressional elections in November 1978, the last major national elections, two thirds of the registered voters didn’t even bother to take part. That in itself is an indictment of the American political system, a clear expression of the widespread contempt shown to Congress.…
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Andrea Enisuoh: Reverse the fear
[Militant International Review, No 53, September-October 1993, p. 16-18] Andrea Enisuoh asks, what can be done to defend black and Asian communities from racist attacks? The murder in April of Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white thugs produced renewed calls in the black and Asian community for something to be done to stop racist…
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Margaret Creear: No immunity
[Militant International Review, No 47, 1992, p. 26-30] Margaret Creear examines the questions raised by the January report of the Law Commission, which reversed a 250-year-old ruling on marital immunity for rape. In 1917 the new Soviet government in the USSR abolished marital immunity for rape. This was part of wholesale changes made in the…
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Harriet Gill: Abuse – Bell’s Cleveland witchhunt
[Militant International Review, No 40, Summer 1989, p. 18-21] Harriet Gill, a London social worker who specialises in family and child-care work, analyses the issues arising from the Butler-Sloss enquiry. The most immediate questions that arise from the Cleveland child abuse events are: why does child sex abuse happen and how can it be prevented?…
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Jen Pickard: Women in the Soviet Union
[Militant International Review, No 37, Autumn 1988, p. 19-23] In his book Perestroika: New Thinking for our Country and the World, Gorbachev claims that women in the Soviet Union have “the same right to work as men, equal pay … every opportunity to get an education, to have a career and to participate in social…
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Phil Frampton: Jesse Jackson and the black struggle
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 22-27] Twenty years ago Martin Luther King, America’s foremost black civil rights activist, was assassinated. Two decades later the successes of Jesse Jackson’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 US Presidential elections has once again raised the question, which way forward for blacks in the…
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Kevin Fernandes: Black Sections – Constitutional substitute for socialist policies
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 16-17] At the 1985 Labour Party conference a resolution calling for the setting up of black sections in the Party was defeated with 1,169,000 votes in favour and 5,358,000 against. Prior to the conference the Labour Party NEC had set up a “Working Group on positive discrimination“…