Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Election

  • Peter Taaffe: Can Labour win?

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    (Militant International Review, No. 39, Spring 1989) By Peter Taaffe The guiding principle of Labour’s leadership has been ‚NUNGE‘, (Nothing Until after the Next General Election). Indeed it has at times been their only ‚principle‘! Any attempt to go outside the prescribed narrow parliamentary boundaries has evoked the wrath of Labour’s front bench. In the…

  • Lynn Walsh: Thatcher at bay

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    [Militant No. 709, 20th July 1984, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh The miners‘ strike has shattered the illusion of Thatcher’s impregnable majority. Preoccupied with class battle in the coalfields, where they thought they would win a quick and easy victory, the Tories have committed a series of disastrous blunders on other fronts: on Liverpool (forced…

  • Lynn Walsh: Local Elections in Clay Cross … Massive Support for Council’s Stand

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    [Militant, No. 196, 8th March 1974, p. 2] By Lynn Walsh (Manchester Ardwick CLP) Last Saturday Clay Cross Labour councillors, with the help of enthusiastic contingents of helpers from many areas, received a massive vote of confidence for their policy of complete refusal to implement the Housing Finance Act. 10 out of 11 Labour candidates…

  • Lynn Walsh: What Will Happen in Labour Britain

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    [Socialism Today, No 17, April 1997, p. 11-16] Despite the interchangeability of Tory and New Labour policies, Labour’s likely election victory will open up a new era in British politics, accelerating the re-emergence of mass workers‘ struggles and the revival of socialist ideas. Lynn Walsh writes. By delaying the general election to the last possible…