Schlagwort: Colonialism
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Peter Taaffe: The Mods and Rockers Problem
(Militant No. 1, October 1964 p. 7, of course we wouldn’t use the N-word today) Peter TaaffeWalton YS If the king of Prussia once said of his peasant army, “We are lost once the bayonets begin to think,” then the capitalist class and their mouthpieces in the press must repeat this a thousand times in…
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Lynn Walsh: Nigerian War: Heritage of Imperialism
[Militant No. 31, November 1967, p. 1 and 3] The Biafran army is being mopped up. Colonel Ojukwu’s promotion to General marks the defeat of his bold attempt to set up an autonomous state within the Federation of Nigeria. In the long run his intelligent, determined manoeuvres, such as the swift seizure of the Mid-West,…