Schlagwort: 1978
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Tim Lewis: Shah’s dictatorship rocked by protest wave
[The Militant, No 415, 17 July 1978, p. 10-11] Iran’s repressive dictatorship under the Shah has been rocked during the last six months by the biggest wave of strikes, demonstrations and riots for years. The apparently solid rule of the world’s richest man, backed up by the most sophisticated weaponry, has been incapable of preventing…
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lqbal: Massenunruhen erschüttern den Schah
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in The Militant, Nr. 423, 15. September 1978, S. 1 + 16] Während Hunderttausende Iraner*innen auf die Straßen strömen und den Sturz des Schahs fordern, schafft es seine Politik von Zugeständnissen und Zwang nicht, die größte Welle der Opposition gegen sein Regime seit seiner Machtübernahme im Jahr 1953 einzudämmen. In…
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lqbal: Mass Upheaval Rocks Shah
[The Militant, No 423, 15 September 1978, p. 1 + 16] As hundreds of thousands of Iranians flock into the streets demanding the overthrow of the Shah, his policy of concession and coercion is failing to stem the biggest wave of opposition to his regime since his dictatorship came to power in 1953. Martial law…
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Dave Todd: Iran – Ripe for Socialist Revolution
[The Militant, No 427, 13 October 1978, p. 10-11] The recent demonstration of 250,000 in Jaleh Square, Teheran, in defiance of martial law, leading to the massacre of anything up to 3,000 people, is of the biggest a measure wave of opposition since the Shah was brought back to power in 1953 with the backing…
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Lynn Walsh: Was geschieht in Äthiopien?
[Militant Nr. 395, 3. März 1978, S. 10] In den letzten paar Wochen hat das äthiopische Regime eine massive Gegenoffensive gegen die von Somalia unterstützten Kräfte in Ogaden begonnen, der von Somalia beanspruchten Region Äthiopiens. Nach allen Berichten wurden große Mengen russischer Waffen eingeflogen, und die äthiopische Armee wurde mit etwa 6.000 kubanischen Berater*innen verstärkt.…
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Peter Taaffe: The Brutal Face of Toryism Behind the „Liberal“ Mask.
(Militant International Review, No. 14, Summer 1978, p. 3-12) By Peter Taaffe Review article of „Inside Right – a study in Conservatism“ by Ian Gilmour. Published by Hutchinson and Co Lid. When it was first published last autumn this book attracted a lot of attention from capitalist commentators. Some hailed it as a definitive answer…
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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: 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…