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Hannah Sell: Fighting for a promised land

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 25-29] Thirty years ago this April Martin Luther King was assassinated as he demonstrated in support of a sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee. His death sparked riots in over 100 cities across America. Hannah Sell looks at life and ideas of the civil rights leader who inspired…

Committee for a Workers‘ International: International Women’s Day

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 26-30] On 8 March 1857, in New York, the first mass demonstration of women workers took place in revolt against abysmal pay and working conditions, a date which has been commemorated since as International Women’s Day. Over 140 years on, real economic and social advances have been made…

Socialism Today: No Way Back to New World Order

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 2-4] It now appears most probable, as we go to press, that the US will soon unleash a prolonged air strike against Iraq. The Clinton administration has delivered an ultimatum to Saddam, based on a maximum demand for unlimited scope for the UN weapons inspectors, which the Iraqi…

Socialism Today: Tiger Economic Meltdown Threatens World Recession

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 25, February 1998, p. 2-4] „Large numbers of supposedly well-informed experts completely failed to warn of the fragility of the East Asian economic region until after the event. I find this unforgivable”. Hamish Mckae, The Independent, 13 January, 1998. „All the classic symptoms of an impending economic crisis are visible … After…

Socialism Today: East Asian Market Tremors – End of the Cycle or End of Cycles?

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 22, October 1997, p. 2-4] East Asian Market Tremors – End of the Cycle or End of Cycles? All the classic symptoms of an impending economic crisis are visible. Wall Street jitters, volatility on world stock markets. The collapse of Thailand’s speculative boom, followed by helter-skelter devaluations of other South East Asian…

Margaret Creear: Lesbian and Gay Liberation: Will Labour make a difference?

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 20, July-August 1997, p. 17-20] The anti-Tory electoral tide swept into parliament large numbers of MPs from oppressed groups, including high profile successes for gay MPs Stephen Twigg – who defeated Michael Portillo – and Ben Bradshaw, who saw off the homophobic Dr Adrian Rogers, president of the Conservative Family Institute. Margaret…

Geoff Jones: Do Computers Dream of Chess Tournaments … ?

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 19, June 1997, p. 22-24] Deep Blue’s recent victory over World chess champion Gary Kasparov did not represent the triumph of conscious machines over humankind. But then, what is consciousness? Geoff Jones writes. After Deep Blue’s victory, one commentator joked that they wouldn’t accept the computer as intelligent until it appeared on…

Andrea Enisuoh, Hugo Pierre, Nasima Patel: What Future for Britain’s Black Population

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 19, June 1997, p. 18-21] Darcus Howe describes the mood in the black community after 1 May as one not of exhilaration but of ‚a huge sense of relief that the 18 year siege is over‘. Yet days later the New York-based Human Rights Watch described racially-motivated attacks in Britain as having…

James Long: Africa: The continent capitalism abandoned

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 20-24] In the 1950s, with African nationalism at its height, the buzzword in Africa was „development‘. Since that dream of growing prosperity, Africa, despite its immense natural wealth, has become a continent beset by famine, drought, civil war and brutal dictatorships. What went wrong? James Long reports. „Africa’s…

Margaret Jones: Natural-born killers?

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 25-28] Did Darwin really believe that society was biologically predetermined to be competitive rather than co-operative? Margaret Jones argues that the ’social Darwinians‘ have got it wrong. Want to succeed in business? Your firm will need to think hard about its ‚predatory pricing strategies‘, if it is to…

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