Schlagwort: fascism
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Lynn Walsh: Postscript [to the new edition of Jan Valtin’s Out of the Night]
[Jan Valtin, Out of the Night, Fortress, London 1988, p. 659-677] Jan Valtin’s Out of the Night was first published in 1941 in the United States, by the Alliance Book Corporation of New York. It immediately became a best seller, and eventually sold over a million copies. The first British edition was published in May…
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Lynn Walsh: Socialist Answer to Fascism
[Militant No. 340, 28 January 1977, p. 5] Significant gains have been chalked up by the National Front in recent parliamentary and local elections. Exploiting bitter disillusionment with the policies of the Labour government. they use vile racist propaganda to whip up support. They are generously supported by the bosses’ gutter press with its sensational…
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Lynn Walsh: 50 years after D-Day: The World at War
[Militant, No. 1185, 10 June 1994, p 8 and 9] Despite saturation coverage, none of the TV programmes have fully analysed what really lay behind the D-Day landings. Lynn Walsh, editor of Militant International Review, explains: Scoundrels in the theme-park The Tories made a big mistake when they tried to use the D-Day anniversary to…
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Lynn Walsh: Tito – The Path to Power – And Conflict With Stalin
[Militant No. 503, 16th May 1980, p. 8-9] The post-war split between Russia and Yugoslavia gave rise to the myth that Tito was “different”, with wide-spread illusions that his regime was less dictatorial, more democratic than Stalin’s. Despite Tito’s undoubted popularity as the leader of the mass guerrilla struggle which liberated the country from Nazi…
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Lynn Walsh: Out of the Night – An epic story
[Militant No. 919, 28th October 1988, p. 4] Fact, fiction or fantasy? reader asks To mark the republication of Jan Valtin’s classic, Out of the Night, Militant (Issue 916) reprinted a review by Peter Taaffe which first appeared In Militant 291. In response, Mick Jones of Chester wrote criticising this as an „uncritical and romanticised…
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Lynn Walsh: Labour Broadcast the Truth
[Militant No. 386, 16th December 1977, p. 1 and 12] At last! A Labour Party political broadcast has hit the mark. In using brilliant film sequences to connect the National Front with Hitler and Mussolini and the horrors of the concentration camps, the broadcast hammered home the truth. It was in marked contrast to the…
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Lynn Walsh: Oswald Mosley – An aristocratic clown who aimed to be a dictator
[Militant No. 533, 19th December 1980, p. 9] Politically, Sir Oswald Mosley had long been as dead as a dinosaur. However, the creator of the Blackshirts and the British Union of Fascists actually died in exile near Paris on 3 December. In burying this exotic political fossil the capitalist press has been lamenting, in almost…
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Lynn Walsh: Franco – Butcher of Spanish Workers
[Militant, No. 282, 5th December 1975, p. 4-5 Francisco Franco, Generalissimo and self-styled ‘Caudillo’, will go down in history as the butcher of the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39 and the dictator who imposed over 30 years of totalitarian rule on the Spanish people. As leader of the Nationalist revolt against the Popular Front Government, he…
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6th World Congress of the CWI: Racism, Fascism and the Future for Reaction
[First draft written in November 1993, presented by the International Secretariat, voted in December 1993] An important feature of the present world situation is a certain growth of the forces of reaction: racism, fascist and neo-fascist organisations in Europe; vicious ethnic and national conflict in the former Stalinist states of Eastern Europe and the former…
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Roger Silverman: Introduction [to the New Edition of Ted Grant’s The Menace of Fascism—What It Is and How to Fight It ]
[From the new edition of the pamphlet, 1978] The republication of Ted Grant’s classic pamphlet The Menace of Fascism comes at a timely moment. Written in 1948 when the relics of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts were attempting to regroup their battered forces in the grim “austerity” days of the postwar Labour Government, its republication today…