Schlagwort: 1979
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Peter Taaffe: „Forward into the ‚Eighties“
(Militant International Review, No. 18, Winter 1980, p. 3-11) Peter Taaffe, editor of ‚Militant‘, looks at the current situation in Britain and points the way forward for Labour. The 1970s was a disastrous decade for the British ruling class. In the last ten years they have seen a further decline in their position. From a…
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Peter Taaffe: Tory Press Smear Workers’ Paper
(Militant, No. 471, 21 September 1979 p. 8-9) We publish below a letter sent by Peter Taaffe, on behalf of ‘Militant’ to the ‘News Of The World’ in answer to their attack on us on 9th September. Readers of this vulgar Sunday scandal sheet were led towards an “exclusive” – which revealed “the [so-called] truth…
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Peter Taaffe: “Militant” and the Communist Party
(Militant No. 447, 16 March 1979 p. 11) The communist Party has invited a number of different left-wing newspapers to contribute articles for their fortnightly magazine ‘Comment’. The following article from Peter Taaffe, editor of ‘Militant’, appears in the current issue of ‘Comment’. ‘Militant’ welcomes this opportunity to outline our differences with the CP and…
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Peter Taaffe: The church and the struggle for liberation
(Militant No. 449, 30 March 1979, p. 6) The second of three articles In last week’s ‘Militant’, Peter Taaffe analysed the role of Islam in the Iranian revolution. In the second article he looks at developments within the Catholic Church in Latin America over the past two decades. The ‘Economist’ recently pointed out that “Since…
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Peter Taaffe: The Church and the Mosque – is there a Religious Revival?
(Militant No. 448, 23 March 1979 p. 11 [I think we would today not use the term ‚Islamic church‘]) The first of three articlesBy Peter Taaffe A vast crowd of three million people turned out to greet Ayatollah Khomeini when he returned to Iran. One and a half million people welcomed the Pope when he…
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Lynn Walsh: Kampuchea – Wer ist verantwortlich?
(eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant Nr. 478, 9. November 1979, S. 10) Von Lynn Walsh Kampuchea [früher Kambodscha] ist ein verwüstetes Land. Die Mehrheit der verbleibenden vier bis fünf Millionen Menschen sind vom Hunger bedroht. Achtzig bis neunzig Prozent der Kinder des Landes leiden an Unterernährung. Krankheiten wie Malaria, Ruhr und sogar Milzbrand…
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Lynn Walsh: Leon Trotsky: 1879-1979
[Militant No 477, 2 November 1979, p. 8 and 9] A Hundred Years After his Birth, Militant Celebrates a Great Revolutionary Leon Trotsky: 1879-1979 What need is there to justify celebration of the 100th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s birth? Known to history by his pseudonym, Trotsky was born Lev Davidovitch Bronstein in the Ukraine on…
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Lynn Walsh: Labour right continue attack on party democracy
[Militant No. 471, 21st September 1979, p. 8-9] By Lynn Walsh Shirley Williams recently tried to dismiss the crucial debate on democracy within the Labour Party as “like the crewmen on the Titanic deciding to have a punch-up in the engine room.” Her speech, made to a fringe Fabian society meeting at the TUC in…
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Lynn Walsh: Tory Taxation Policy Only Helps Big Business
[Militant No. 450, 6 April 1979, p. 3] “A Tory government would cut the monstrous burden of taxation!” This will be the refrain from Thatcher, Joseph, Howe and the rest during the campaign. For many workers, now paying painful amounts of income tax out of their hard-earned and far-from-adequate wage packet, such a slogan can…