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Schlagwort: Militant International Review

  • Lynn Walsh: China: The First Act

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    [Militant International Review, No 41, Autumn 1989, p. 27-30, 48] The bloody massacre in Tiananmen Square has provoked worldwide horror and anger. Lynn Walsh analyses the magnificent uprising against the bureaucracy, which marks the opening of China’s political revolution. The upsurge against the bureaucracy arose from a period of rapid economic growth. The political crisis…

  • Lynn Walsh: German unification: capitalism triumphant?

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    [Militant International Review, No 43, Spring 1990, p. 14-22] Lynn Walsh argues that, in the absence of a clear alternative, the collapse of East Germany’s Stalinist regime, combined with the overwhelming impression of prosperity in West Germany, undermined the movement towards the political revolution begun by last years mass demonstrations. What are the prospects now?…

  • Lynn Walsh: Die Wirtschaft der Perestroika

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    [Militant International Review, Nr 37, Sommer 1988, S. 19-21] Abel Aganbegjan ist Gorbatschows Haupt-Wirtschaftsberater. Die jüngste Veröffentlichung seines Buches „The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika“ (Hutchinson £8.95) im Westen ist ein Hinweis auf die tiefe Krise, in der sich die herrschende Bürokratie der Sowjetunion befindet. Bis vor kurzem haben die offiziellen sowjetischen Ökonomen geleugnet, dass es…

  • Peter Taaffe: Gorbachev and the Left

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    [Militant International Review, No 38, Autumn 1988, p. 7-14] Peter Taaffe, Editor of the Militant, examines the response of the left of the British labour movement to the tumultuous events unfolding in the USSR and Eastern Europe. The coming to power of Gorbachev over three years ago was undoubtedly a momentous event in the evolution…

  • Lynn Walsh: Poland and Hungary Returning to capitalism?

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    [Militant International Review, No 42, Winter 1990, p. 16-27] Lynn Walsh considers whether it is possible or even likely that Poland and Hungary could revert to the orbit of capitalism. There are many conditional factors involved. The political revolution has begun. The earthshaking movement of the Vorkuta, Siberian and Ukrainian miners during 1989 has rocked…

  • Peter Taaffe: Vom Bürokraten zum Dissidenten

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    [Militant International Review, Nr. 28, Januar 1985, S. 9-15] Peter Taaffe analysiert die kürzlich veröffentlichten Memoiren von Pjotr Grigorenko. Die Gestalt Grigorenkos ist all jenen vertraut, die die sogenannte „Dissidenten“-Bewegung in Russland in den 1960er und frühen 1970er Jahren verfolgt haben. Wegen seines entschlossenen und heldenhaften Widerstands gegen den Stalinismus war er der einzige General…

  • Alejandro Rojas [Tony Saunois]: The Sandinistas’ defeated – A victory for reaction

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    [Militant International Review, No 43 Spring 1990, p. 29-32] Alejandro Rojas examines the reasons for the defeat of the FSLN and draws out lessons for future struggles. The recent election defeat of the Sandinista FSLN in Nicaragua will be a big disappointment to activists in the labour movement internationally. It has especially shocked and disorientated…

  • Alejandro Rojas [Tony Saunois]: Perspectives for the Nicaraguan revolution

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    [Militant International Review, No 34 Spring 1987, p. 18-28] The American ‘Irangate’ crisis revealed that money raised from the sale of arms to Iran had been used to finance the Nicaraguan ‘Contras’. Once again the future of the Nicaraguan revolution is being raised in the minds of workers and youth throughout the world. July 1979…

  • Rob Sewell: Crisis in Soviet Union

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    [Militant International Review, No 23, October 1982, p. 13-22] Economy stifled by bureaucracy After six and a half decades of breathtaking progress, catastrophe and upheaval, the USSR still remains for many workers an enormous paradox. On the one side are the colossal achievements; and on the other is the repression of a totalitarian police dictatorship.…

  • Roger Silverman: The Gathering Storm in Russia

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    [Militant International Review, No 3, Autumn 1970, p. 34-47] Every totalitarian regime is by its very nature a regime of crisis, an expression of class deadlock. The Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, which overturned all the political rights won by the revolution, owed its power after the betrayal of the revolution in the West, to the…