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Margaret Creear: Moral Panic
[Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 10-13] The Dunblane killings, the death of Philip Lawrence, and the high profile exclusions of unruly school students, have all acted as a magnet to politicians to parade their views on the ‚remoralisation‘ of Britain. Unscrupulously tapping into genuine fears to gain votes at the approaching election, argues…
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Tony Saunois: Latin American Left – Mass Struggles, Ideological Crisis
[Socialism Today, No 13, Nov 1996, p. 14-18] The struggles of the ‚popular sectors‘ in Latin America are rapidly growing. But, paradoxically, much of the Latin American left is shifting to the right. Tony Saunois reports. From the Rio Grande in the north, to Tierra del Fuego in the south, Latin America is a continent…
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Mark Everden: The Pink Pound – Whose Liberation?
[Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 12-14] Many businesses are turning to the lesbian and gay „niche market‘, as many in the lesbian, gay and bisexual communities turn their back on politics and opt for lifestyle‘ alternatives. Is this really the way forward? Mark Everden reports. For many lesbians, gay men and bisexuals, the…
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Dave Beale: ‚Lean Production‘ – The New Management Techniques
[Socialism Today, No 7, April 1996, p. 19-22] In many workplaces the employers‘ offensive against the workforce comes under the name of „new management techniques‘. The latest example is the Employee Agenda proposals in the Royal Mail. Dave Beale, author of Driven by Nissan? A critical guide to the New Management Techniques, outlines the new…
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Robin Clapp: Global Myths
[Socialism Today, No 7, April 1996, p. 15-18] ‚Globalisation‘ is the buzzword of the 1990s. But is the international economy really ‚globalised‘? Have the vast daily movements of capital across national borders swept all before them? Can national governments and the world labour movement do anything to resist the relentless forward march of transnational corporations?…
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Vince Dicey: Oscar Wilde. Pioneer of Gay Liberation?
[Socialism Today, No 7, April 1996, p. 26-29] One hundred years ago Oscar Wilde was languishing in Reading gaol, after one of Britain’s most famous courtroom dramas. Here Vince Dicey examines Wilde and the anti-gay witch hunt which broke him with prison and exile At the start of 1895 a friend proclaimed Wilde ‚as well-known…
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Christine Thomas: A blow to the right to choose
[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 8] ‘New wave’ US feminist Naomi Wolf has defected to the anti-abortionists’ camp. Although she says that abortion should be legal and is sometimes necessary, she has launched a vitriolic attack on pro-choice supporters. In an article in the US magazine New Republic she condemns those campaigning for…
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Andrea Enisuoh: The Million Man March
[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 7] In one of the biggest demonstrations in the US since Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in 1963, legions of black men converged on Capitol Hill on 16 October. The ‘Million Man March’, called by the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Ben Chavis, the ex-director…
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Phil Clarke: OJ jurors find US justice system guilty
[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 6] The vast media coverage of the OJ Simpson trial sucked viewers and readers into discussion within the terms presented in the court soap opera – did he, or did he not, do it? Many got confused about where their sympathies lay in answering that question. On the…
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Peter Taaffe: Blair’s Australian model
[Socialism Today, No 17, April 1997, p. 21-24] On his notorious 1995 trip to Rupert Murdoch’s luxurious Hayman Islands retreat, Tony Blair swapped notes with Australian premier Paul Keating. Since then, Keating has been pushed from office in a wave of disillusionment with Labor. Peter Taaffe looks at the lessons of Blair’s Australian model. In…