Schlagwort: book review
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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: A Life on the Right
(Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews The Time of My Life, the autobiography of Denis Healey, for decades a key figure on the Labour right. Denis Healey has occupied a central position within the right-wing of the Labour Party at critical times in its evolution over the last 45 years or…
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Peter Taaffe: The Need for Words
(Militant International Review, No. 53, September-October 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews two books providing a fascinating insight into the voice, its relationship to personality and ultimately of society the dhé (emphatic) .demons. adj. called the definite article, used to denote a particular person or thing need néd, n. want of something which one cannot do without;…
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Peter Taaffe: Cecil King Diary 1970-74
(Militant No. 286, 9 January 1976, p. 5) What the ruling-class really think When Cecil King published his diaries in 1972 – covering the period of 1965 to 1970 – it caused uproar [see Militant nos. 132 and 141]. The capitalists were outraged that their innermost thoughts, their fears and hatred of the Labour Movement…
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Peter Taaffe: Memoirs of Stalin’s Spymaster – The Trotskyists Were Right
(Militant No. 400, 7 April 1978, p. 8-9) Reviewed by Peter Taaffe – Part 1 When “The Great Game” was first published last year it was widely commented on in the capitalist press. To read the reviews would be to suppose that the chief merit of this book lay in the account of the author,…
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Peter Taaffe: Memoirs of Stalin’s Master Spy – The myth of the great war leader exploded
(Militant 401, 14 April 1978, p. 8-9) In the second part of his review of ‘The Great Game’, Peter Taaffe covers Trepper’s recollections of the great purge of ‘Old Bolsheviks’ and Stalin’s disastrous military policies at the beginning of the second world war. In ‘The Great Game’, Leopold Trepper provides a graphic picture of how…
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Peter Taaffe: Out of the Ghetto
(Militant International Review, No. 47, 1992) Anti-fascist activity in the 1930s. Building a mass Communist Party in London’s East End. Peter Taaffe reviews Joe Jacobs‘ recently republished autobiography Throughout Europe right-wing and neo-fascist organisations seem to be on the march. In France Le Pen’s Front National scored an incredible 38% in recent opinion polls. In…
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Peter Taaffe: Red is the colour of our flag
(Militant International Review, No. 46, Summer 1991) Peter Taaffe reviews the recently published autobiography of Oskar Hippe, a fighter in the German workers‘ movement for over six years. Oskar Hippe joined the pre-first world war German Social Democratic Party (SPD) under the influence of his radical elder brother. He swung over in support of Rosa…
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Peter Taaffe: Citizens By Simon Schama
(Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990) Published by Viking, 1989, £20 Reviewed by Peter Taaffe In last year’s avalanche of literature on the 200th anniversary of the French revolution, Simon Schama’s book Citizens was singled out by bourgeois reviewers. Little wonder for, as he admits, he adopts „the unfashionable top-down“ rather than „bottom-up“ approach.…