Schlagwort: Militant
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Lynn Walsh: Labour right continue attack on party democracy
[Militant No. 471, 21st September 1979, p. 8-9] By Lynn Walsh Shirley Williams recently tried to dismiss the crucial debate on democracy within the Labour Party as “like the crewmen on the Titanic deciding to have a punch-up in the engine room.” Her speech, made to a fringe Fabian society meeting at the TUC in…
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Lynn Walsh: Tory Taxation Policy Only Helps Big Business
[Militant No. 450, 6 April 1979, p. 3] “A Tory government would cut the monstrous burden of taxation!” This will be the refrain from Thatcher, Joseph, Howe and the rest during the campaign. For many workers, now paying painful amounts of income tax out of their hard-earned and far-from-adequate wage packet, such a slogan can…
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Lynn Walsh: 1936/1937 – Lessons of the Popular Front
[Militant No. 315, 30th July 1976, p. 6-7] Forty years ago, on the 18th July 1936, General Franco launched the military revolt which began three years of civil war and drowned the Spanish Revolution in blood. For Europe, the defeat of the Spanish workers and the strengthening of fascism meant a fatal step nearer to…
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Lynn Walsh: 1688 – The myth of the ‘glorious’ revolution
[Militant No. 904, 8th July 1988, p. 8-9] The events of 1688 had a happy ending for the ruling class. Without any real conflict, the dangerous James II was replaced by the admirable William and Mary. The contending factions, Whigs and Tories, were harmoniously united in adopting the Bill of Rights. By Lynn Walsh This…
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Lynn Walsh: Benn exposes new police riot manual
[Militant No. 760, 2nd August 1985, p. 7] Lynn Walsh Military-style manoeuvres, including with batons and offensive horses charges into crowds, are now a well established part of regular police training. This is confirmed by pages from a new Training Manual which came to light during the recent Sheffield trial of striking miners facing riot…
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Lynn Walsh: Tories Declare War on Workers
[Militant 411 – 23rd June 1978 p. 1 and 16] By Lynn Walsh Mrs Thatcher claims she is maligned. “Labour will try to paint me as a reactionary, implying a sort of early return to the Middle Ages,” she moaned recently. What she really wants, the Tory leader explained, is “to get everyone a capitalist…
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Lynn Walsh: Law suit against Militant‘ security of costs‘ ordered
[Militant No. 761, 9th August 1985, p. 4] John Dennis, former Labour Party Student Organiser, is suing Militant over articles (20 April and 25 May 1984) on the 1984 conference of the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS). If Dennis wants to continue his current libel action against Militant then he must deposit £4,000 with…
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Lynn Walsh: Budget hand-outs: no substitute for socialist policies
[Militant No. 401, 14th April 1978, p. 2] By Lynn Walsh The labour movement will welcome the positive points in Denis Healey’s budget, which have already brought a torrent of criticism and denunciation from the Tories and big business. Most workers will be slightly better off as a result of the tax cuts. Low-income families…
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Lynn Walsh: Local Elections in Clay Cross … Massive Support for Council’s Stand
[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…
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Lynn Walsh: Extryism
[Militant No. 812, 29th August 1986, p. 2] Defectors from the Labour Party follow a well-known pattern. Robert Kilroy-Silk, who is resigning his Knowsley seat to join BBC Television, follows in the footsteps of a long line of middle-class extryists who have used the parliamentary Labour Party as a vehicle for their careers. The Labour…