Schlagwort: Economy
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Peter Taaffe: Russian economy: choked by bureaucracy
(Militant No. 688, 24 February 1984 p. 8-9) The death of Andropov and his replacement by the even greyer and older Chernenko has been the occasion for the hirelings of capital in Fleet Street to predictably point to the deficiencies of the Stalinist regime, its totalitarian character, massive corruption, etc. By this means they seek…
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Lynn Walsh: Trickle down
[Militant, No. 1265, 1 March 1996, p. 8 and 9] Making the rich richer benefits the poor, argue right-wing economists. Reality proves otherwise, says Lynn Walsh. Trickle down Rich and poor in the USA In the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States president who introduced the reformist New Deal policy, in which government money…
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Lynn Walsh: ‘Smile Tho’ Your Jobs are Going’
[Militant No. 536, 23rd January 1981, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh Smile, Thatcher urged us in her New Year message, and things will soon be getting better. Do the Tories really believe this? Is their “optimism” a cynical con-trick, or are they really self-deluded idiots? Faced with gloomy predictions from all the main economic commentators,…