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Lynn Walsh: South Africa – A nation still in waiting
[Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 22-25] Following its overwhelming victory in the elections of 27 April 1994, the ANC leadership has consolidated its dominant position in the Government of National Unity (GNU) – and is currently basking in the prestige of the world’s most popular president, enjoying the long after-glow of victory.…
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Lynn Walsh: A period of Depression
[Militant International Review, No 53, p. 19-25] Is the world economy in just another cyclical recession? Or a long-term period of depression? Lynn Walsh examines the arguments. The seasons have changed many times since Clinton, Major, and other capitalist leaders first pointed to ‘green shoots of recovery’. Yet so far, recovery from the recession which…
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Lynn Walsh: Wird der Ölpreisanstieg eine Rezession bedeuten?
(eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant Nr. 1004, 10. August 1990, S. 11) Der gegenwärtige Anstieg des Ölpreises ist nur ein Bruchteil dessen, was 1973 und 1979 geschah, und doch hat er an den Weltbörsen Panik ausgelöst. Der wirtschaftliche Rahmen ist weltweit so wackelig, dass die Kapitalist*innen befürchten, dass die Wachstumslokomotive, die in den…
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Peter Taaffe: Which way for American Blacks?
(Militant International Review, No. 5, January 1972, p. 10-19) By Peter Taaffe The assassination of George Jackson in San Quentin prison in August to be followed three weeks later with the brutal massacre of predominantly black prisoners at Attica Prison, New York, have aroused the anger of the World Labour Movement at the horrifying conditions…
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Peter Taaffe: British Communist Party in Crisis
(Militant International Review, No. 15, Autumn 1978, p. 23-32) By Peter Taaffe In the past year the British Communist Party has received unprecedented attention from the mass media. The polemics with the dissident Stalinist wing and its eventual splitting away to form the „New Communist Party“ was extensively reported. This has been followed by the…
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Peter Taaffe: Bosnia’s Killing Fields
(Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, 2-7) Should the labour movement back military intervention? Or sanctions against Serbia? Peter Taaffe examines the Bosnian nightmare. The Bosnian crisis is now at a turning point. The harrowing accounts of mutilated children in Srebrenica, the photographs of injured soldiers like scenes from the first world war, combined…
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Peter Taaffe: The Need for Words
(Militant International Review, No. 53, September-October 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews two books providing a fascinating insight into the voice, its relationship to personality and ultimately of society the dhé (emphatic) .demons. adj. called the definite article, used to denote a particular person or thing need néd, n. want of something which one cannot do without;…
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Peter Taaffe: Marxism and the State: Who Really Threatens Democracy
(Militant International Review, No. 22, June 1982, p. 25-32) By Peter Taaffe “Marxism equals totalitarianism and violence.” This is the persistent theme of the capitalists and their media in their campaign against ‘Militant’. All the notes on the political keyboards, from the ultra-right Daily Mail to the august Times and the alleged ‘Labour’ papers the…
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Peter Taaffe: 1977: A Disaster Year for Workers
(Militant No. 387, 6 January 1978, p. 6-7) “The average voter has just suffered the biggest fall in his real disposable income for more than 100 years” [‘Economist’, 8th October 1977]. This is a fitting epitaph for 1977. Millions of British workers will not be sorry to see the back of the past year. For…
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Peter Taaffe: Greece – After the Election – Only the Workers Movement can Guard Against Reaction
(Militant No. 240, 24 January 1975, p. 4-5) By Peter Taaffe The biggest demonstrations in the history of Greece, the referendum which gave the thumbs down to the monarchy by a margin of more than two to one, the clamour for the former dictators and their accomplices to be punished; this is the situation in…