Schlagwort: 1986
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Lynn Walsh: China: Auf dem Weg zum Kapitalismus?
(eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant Nr. 820, 24. Oktober 1986, S. 10) Beschwören die aktuellen Reformen das Gespenst der kapitalistischen Restauration herauf? Selbst Reagan bezeichnet Dengs Gruppe jetzt als „sogenannte Kommunisten“, vielleicht in dem Glauben, dass sie das Licht gesehen haben. Diejenigen, die dies behaupten, ob eifrige Kapitalist*innen oder besorgte Sozialist*innen, übertreiben die…
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Lynn Walsh: China – Hinter dem neuen Image
(eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant Nr. 819, 17. Oktober 1986, S. 10) Der Besuch der Queen in China symbolisiert einen tiefgreifenden Wandel in der Haltung der Kapitalist*innen. Früher zeichneten die Medien ein Bild von einer reglementierten Bevölkerung, politischer Gedankenkontrolle und unerbittlicher „kommunistischer“ Entsagung. Jetzt präsentieren sie ein neues China, belebt durch einen blühenden…
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Peter Taaffe: Liverpool’s struggle-Lessons for the movement
(Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986) In studying and analysing the Liverpool experience all workers can prepare themselves for similar movements in their own areas. There will be many ‚Liverpools‘ throughout Britain, only on a more gigantic scale „By the mid-1980s the Conservatives saw Liverpool as the power base of the Militant Tendency. And…
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Lynn Walsh: Rassist*innen mit sozialistischen Argumenten bekämpfen
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant Nr. 821, 31. Oktober 1986, S. 4] Die extrem rechte Federation of Conservative Students (Föderation Konservativer Studenten, FCS) organisiert eine Vortragsreise für rechte Tory-Abgeordnete wie John Carlisle, die für ihre rassistischen Ansichten bekannt sind. Enoch Powell hat bereits versucht, an der Universität Bristol zu sprechen. Das Ziel der…
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Lynn Walsh: China – Behind the new Image
[Militant No. 819, 17 October 1986, p. 10] The Queen’s visit to China symbolises a profound change in the capitalists‘ attitude. Before, the media painted a picture of a regimented population, political thought-control, and unrelenting ‚Communist‘ austerity. Now they present a new China, enlivened by a blossoming market, with political ‚liberalisation‘ and a rapid adoption…
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Lynn Walsh China: On the road to capitalism?
[Militant No. 820, 24 October 1986 p. 10] Do the current reforms raise the spectre of capitalist restoration? Even Reagan now refers to Deng’s group as ’so-called Communists‘, perhaps believing that they have seen the light. Those who argue this, whether eager capitalists or apprehensive socialists, greatly exaggerate the scope of the reforms. They are…
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Lynn Walsh: Fight racists with socialist arguments
[Militant No. 821, 31 October 1986, p. 4] The extreme right-wing Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) are organising a speaking tour for right-wing Tory MPs, like John Carlisle, known for their racist views. Enoch Powell has already attempted to speak at Bristol University. The aim of the FCS is not just to spread racist ideas.…
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Lynn Walsh: Extryism
[Militant No. 812, 29th August 1986, p. 2] Defectors from the Labour Party follow a well-known pattern. Robert Kilroy-Silk, who is resigning his Knowsley seat to join BBC Television, follows in the footsteps of a long line of middle-class extryists who have used the parliamentary Labour Party as a vehicle for their careers. The Labour…
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Lynn Walsh: Scandal at The Mirror
[Militant No. 782, 24th January 1986, p. 5] By Lynn Walsh Secretive, unscrupulous, undemocratic, just a few of the expletives thrown at Militant in yet another Mirror tirade. But perhaps the hired pen who dutifully bashed out this “comment” (21 January) should have applied them to his boss? Secretive? Who owns Maxwell’s great organ of…
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Alejandro Rojas [Tony Saunois]: Perspectives for the Nicaraguan revolution
[Militant International Review, No 34 Spring 1987, p. 18-28] The American ‘Irangate’ crisis revealed that money raised from the sale of arms to Iran had been used to finance the Nicaraguan ‘Contras’. Once again the future of the Nicaraguan revolution is being raised in the minds of workers and youth throughout the world. July 1979…