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  • Peter Taaffe: Diana Outpouring – Virtual Protest

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    [Socialism Today, No 22, October 1997, p. 13-17] The death of Princess Diana on 31 August triggered off emotional and unprecedented scenes of public grief and soul-searching throughout Britain and beyond. It was accompanied by the coming out onto the streets of London in particular, but in other cities also, of hundreds of thousands and…

  • Peter Taaffe: Russia’s agony

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    [Socialism Today, No 28, May 1998, p. 24-28] Peter Taaffe reviews a recently published book, Rebirth of a Nation – an Anatomy of Russia, by the former Financial Times Moscow correspondent, John Lloyd (Michael Joseph Publishing, £20). John Lloyd built a reputation in the 1980s as a perceptive industrial reporter for the Financial Times, particularly…

  • Lynn Walsh: Rehabilitating Trotsky

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    [Militant International Review, No 44, Summer 1990, p. 6-11] The open re-appraisal of Trotsky in the USSR, argues Lynn Walsh, is the key to understanding the rise of Stalinism – and to formulating a programme which can provide the working class with a way out of the bureaucratic impasse. “Restoring historical and judicial justice is…

  • Tony Saunois: Latin America’s Tequila Hangover

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    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 26-28] As the devastating debt crisis of the 1980s receded, Latin America once again showed signs of economic growth – there was even talk of Latin America joining the ‚first world‘ of advanced countries. But the Mexican financial crash has revealed how brittle these claims were. Tony…

  • Dave Cotterill: Clinton’s Haitian gamble

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    [Militant International Review, No. 59, October-November 1994, p. 2-6] With Aristide’s return the problems facing the US invasion force have only just begun. Dave Cotterill writes. The joyous popular welcome to the US forces who landed in Haiti turned sour in less than a fortnight. When US marines stood by while the police and armed…

  • Martin Cock: Capitalism’s lost continent

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    [Militant International Review, No. 58, August 1994, p. 8-12] The Rwandan horror, argues Martin Cock, is a symptom of a wider African crisis. Within the space of a few horrific months, the image of Rwanda has changed from Gorillas in the Mist to blood-letting, massacres and tribalism. Up to 500,000 people have been killed since…

  • Kevin Simpson: The break-up of Yugoslavia

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    [Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 17-20] The Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Branka Magas. Published by Verso, £12-96. Available from World Socialist Books, 3-13 Hepscott Road, London E9 5HB. “Have you ever seen a wedding without meat?” This indifferent response by an Albanian Kosovar miner was given to a journalist asking whether he…

  • Nick Wrack:Resisting the Euro-right

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    [Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 2-7] How far can reaction go? Nick Wrack looks at the rise of the European far-right. The recent growth of far-right and neo Nazi groups across Europe, the increased votes for these organisations and especially the horrendous increase in racist attacks and murders, raises a series of…

  • Margaret Creear: An unnatural system

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    [Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, p. 19-25] What are the causes of today’s social problems? Margaret Creear examines the ’nature or nurture‘ debate. The murder of Jamie Bulger in Bootle became the occasion for a national offensive by the Tories, and academics linked two them. to put the blame for violence, juvenile crime.…

  • Militant International Review: After the cold war

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    [Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993, p. 2-7] This is the most disturbed period in world relations since that which followed the Versailles treaty at the end of World War One. The Collapse of the Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has dramatically altered world relations. From 1945 to 1989 the…