Schlagwort: 1975
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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…
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Peter Taaffe: Spain on the eve of revolution
(Militant No. 244, 21 February 1975, p. 6) Spain is on the eve of Revolution! The “ravings” of Marxism perhaps? No – this is the sober verdict of the Spanish Capitalists and their counterparts in this country. Thus the Spanish monarchist newspaper A.B.C. has recently declared … The regime is decomposing”. The right wing Catholic…
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Peter Taaffe: Tribune and the struggle for socialism – policies do not break with capitalism
(Militant No. 255, 9 May 1975, p. 4-5) The two elections in 1974 marked a decisive turning point in the post-war development of the Labour movement in Britain. In the preceding four years under the whip of Heath’s ‘counter-revolution’ against their rights and conditions the working class had been enormously radicalised. This was reflected in…
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Peter Taaffe: Transitional Demands and the Question of the Student Grant
(Bulletin December 1975 p. 8-10) In recent months a discussion has taken place in the student caucus which has a certain importance for the tendency as a whole. It revolved around the issue of student grants but the discussion naturally touched on the nature of transitional demands, the correct way to pose them and the…
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Lynn Walsh: Right Wing Revolt in Portugal – Arm Workers Against Reaction
[Militant No. 247, 14th March 1975, p. 1 and 8] Lisbon. Tuesday March 11th 1975 At 12.00 pm today there were attacks by paratroopers and some of the airforce on three barracks in and around Lisbon. The main one was the barracks of the Light Infantry regiment, the key unit supporting the Armed Forces Movement.…
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Lynn Walsh: Franco – Butcher of Spanish Workers
[Militant, No. 282, 5th December 1975, p. 4-5 Francisco Franco, Generalissimo and self-styled ‘Caudillo’, will go down in history as the butcher of the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39 and the dictator who imposed over 30 years of totalitarian rule on the Spanish people. As leader of the Nationalist revolt against the Popular Front Government, he…
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Peter Taaffe: Introduction [to Common Market – No. Socialist Europe – Yes. The Socialist Case]
[Printed in the pamphlet, London, March 1975, p. 1-7] The ‘Socialist Answer to the EEC’ by Ted Grant was written in 1971 on the issue of Britain’s entry into the Common Market. The three years which have elapsed since it was first issued have not rendered this analysis obsolete. On the contrary as the reader…