Schlagwort: 1979
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Lynn Walsh: Kampuchea – Who is responsible?
[Militant No. 478, 9th November 1979, p. 10] By Lynn Walsh Kampuchea [formerly Cambodia] is a devastated country. A majority of its remaining four to five million people face imminent starvation. Eighty or ninety per cent of the country’s children are suffering from malnutrition. Diseases like malaria, dysentery, and even anthrax – which can be…
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Lynn Walsh: Iran – The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
[Militant No. 440, 26th January 1979, p. 10] When the Shah finally left the country last week, hundreds of thousands of jubilant demonstrators filled the streets to celebrate his departure. Portraits and statues – those which remained – were torn down and destroyed. The remnants of the Peacock Throne crumbled like a mummy exposed to…
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Lynn Walsh: Scottish Assembly Now
[Militant No. 446, 9th March 1979, p. 1 and 16] By a narrow majority [51.6%], those who voted in the referendum in Scotland came out in favour of an Assembly as proposed in the government’s Scotland Act. Although the Yes vote – 32.5% (with 37.1% abstaining) – falls short of the 40% minimum imposed by…
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Lynn Walsh: Iran – Shah’s Overthrow Just the Beginning
[Militant No. 437, 5th January 1979, p. 1 and 16] Time and time again in the last few weeks over a quarter of Tehran’s 4½ million population have taken to the streets demanding the Shah’s downfall. Events in Iran have acquired a revolutionary momentum of their own. Day after day, in defiance of martial law,…
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Jim Chrystie: Nicaragua: Somoza goes – the struggle continues
[Militant, 27 July 1979] „He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.“ President Roosevelt’s words on installing the first Somoza as head of Nicaragua in 1933 came home to roost last week. In the first successful mass uprising in Latin America since Castro came to power twenty years…
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Peter Taaffe: China
[This pamphlet reproduces the three articles on China published in ‘Militant’ in July 1979. Some minor alterations and corrections have been added by the author. Printed August 1979] Contents The Meaning of the Cultural Revolution Workers Fight Bureaucratic Stranglehold The Foreign Policy of the Bureaucracy The Meaning of the Cultural Revolution There has been an…
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Peter Taaffe: China
[eigene Übersetzung der Militant-Artikelserie bzw. Broschüre von 1979] Die Bedeutung der Kulturrevolution In der gesamten kapitalistischen Welt hat das Interesse an China enorm zugenommen. Dies wurde, soweit es das Großkapital und seine Sprecher*innen betrifft, durch die Aussicht auf lukrative Handelsgeschäfte zwischen der kapitalistischen Welt und China stimuliert. Etwa 70 Handelsmissionen haben China im letzten Jahr…
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Jim Chrystie: Nicaragua: Somoza geht – der Kampf geht weiter
[Eigene Übersetzung aus Militant, 27 Juli 1979] „Er mag ein Hurensohn sein, aber er ist unser Hurensohn“. Diese Worte von Präsident Roosevelt bei der Einsetzung des ersten Somoza als Staatschef von Nicaragua im Jahr 1933 rächten sich in der vergangenen Woche. In dem ersten erfolgreichen Massenaufstand in Lateinamerika seit der Machtübernahme durch Castro vor zwanzig…