Schlagwort: 1998
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Peter Taaffe: Labour Left: Heading For A Split?
(Socialism Today No 25, February 1998) ‚Our consciences say we must split with Tory Blair‘, was the headline over an article by Ken Coates and Hugh Kerr, MEPs, in the Observer (28 December). This defiance of the Labour leaders by an estimated six left MEPs comes after the success of the left at Labour’s October…
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Peter Taaffe: 1937: Persecution and Defiance
[Socialism Today, No. 30, July 1998] Vadim Rogovin’s book, 1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror, has just been published in Britain. Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, reviews this inspirational account of the Trotskyists‘ heroic struggle against Stalin’s attempt to physically annihilate them. One of the purposes of the post-1989 bourgeois ideological offensive is to wipe…
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Lynn Walsh: Die Politik von Zippergate
[Socialism Today, Nr. 6, März 1996, S. 16-19] Der Chef der Exekutive des mächtigsten Staates der Welt ist in eine neue Schmuddelkrise verwickelt – Zippergate [Reißverschlussgate]. Unglaublicherweise dreht sie sich um die Behauptung, dass Präsident Clinton Sex mit der 21-jährigen ehemaligen Praktikantin Monica Lewinsky hatte und dass er und seine Berater*innen sich verschworen hätten, Lewinsky…
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Lynn Walsh: Weltwirtschaftliche Turbulenzen
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Socialism Today, Nr. 32, Oktober 1998, S. 8-15] Der wirtschaftliche Zusammenbruch Russlands Ende August, ein weiteres zerbrochenes Glied in der Kette der internationalen Krise, markiert einen qualitativen Wendepunkt. Die bürgerlichen Strateg*innen waren schließlich gezwungen, sich der harten Realität zu stellen, der sie gegenüberstehen, schreibt Lynn Walsh. Asien, dessen interregionaler…
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Lynn Walsh: Rural reaction
[Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 9-10] Lynn Walsh on the Countryside Alliance, a political reaction dressed up in a populist lament about rural decline. The countryside’s march swamped central London on Sunday, 1 March. The night before, a chain of hilltop beacons rallied support and signalled the alleged threat to Rural England –…
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Lynn Walsh: Western Crony Capitalism
[Socialism Today, No 34, December 1998 – January 1999, p. 2-3] The insolvency and near collapse of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), formerly the premier hedge fund, brought the world financial system to the very edge of meltdown. Only the rapid $3.6bn rescue organised by the Federal Reserve averted catastrophe. While LTCM has been bailed…
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Lynn Walsh: The meaning of the mid-term elections
[Socialism Today, No 34, December 1998 – January 1999, p. 16-19] The tactics adopted by the Republicans in the US mid-term elections rebounded on them. Their campaign to turn the elections into a plebiscite on the impeachment of the president was decisively rejected by voters. This has not only strengthened Clinton’s position, but seriously damaged…
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Lynn Walsh: Capitalism’s Economic and Political Crisis
[Socialism Today, No 32, October 1998, p. 8-15] Russia’s economic collapse at the end of August, one more broken link in the chain of international crisis, marked a qualitative turning-point. Bourgeois strategists were at last forced to confront the stark reality facing them, writes Lynn Walsh Asia, whose inter-regional and external trade makes up a…
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Lynn Walsh: The Nightmare Scenario
[Socialism Today, No. 30, July 1998] An obscene and potentially extremely dangerous nuclear arms race has opened up on the south Asian subcontinent. What lies behind this renewed arms race and what are the prospects for a nuclear exchange? Lynn Walsh writes. On 11-13 May, India (after 24 years without nuclear tests) carried out a…
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Lynn Walsh: The Politics of Zippergate
[Socialism Today, No. 6, March 1996, p. 16-19] The Chief Executive of the world’s most powerful state is embroiled in a new sleaze crisis – Zippergate. Incredibly, this revolves around the allegation that president Clinton had sex with a 21-year-old former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, and that he and his advisors conspired to get…