Schlagwort: Militant
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Lynn Walsh: Rhodesia: White Regime losing ground
[Militant No. 316, 6th August 1976, p. 8] Remorseless pressure from the guerrilla fighters is steadily undermining the position of the Smith regime. Despite all the usual official denials, it is clear that the Rhodesian security forces are having more and more difficulty holding their own. Not only have the guerilla incursions continued along the…
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Lynn Walsh: Kampuchea – Who is responsible?
[Militant No. 478, 9th November 1979, p. 10] By Lynn Walsh Kampuchea [formerly Cambodia] is a devastated country. A majority of its remaining four to five million people face imminent starvation. Eighty or ninety per cent of the country’s children are suffering from malnutrition. Diseases like malaria, dysentery, and even anthrax – which can be…
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Lynn Walsh: Qaddafi terror strikes in Britain
[Militant No. 697, 27th April 1984, p. 13] By Lynn Walsh With a violent shock, television pictures of the horrifying shooting in St James’s Square have brought Libya’s political conflicts to the attention of everyone in Britain. The unprovoked shooting of anti-Qaddafi demonstrators from the embassy, and the killing of a policewoman, have aroused horror…
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Lynn Walsh: When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia
[Militant No. 511, 11th July 1980, p. 8] By Lynn Walsh (review of Andrew Rothstein’s ‘When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia: The Consul Who Rebelled’) The Tories in Britain, and the representatives of capitalism internationally, have whipped up a frenzied propaganda campaign against the Russian invasion in Afghanistan. But in 1917, when the workers and peasants…
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Lynn Walsh: Iran – The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
[Militant No. 440, 26th January 1979, p. 10] When the Shah finally left the country last week, hundreds of thousands of jubilant demonstrators filled the streets to celebrate his departure. Portraits and statues – those which remained – were torn down and destroyed. The remnants of the Peacock Throne crumbled like a mummy exposed to…
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Lynn Walsh: Greece: The Meaning of the Coup
[Militant No. 185, 14th December 1973, p. 3 and 6] By Lynn Walsh (Ardwick Labour Party) With the latest coup, carried through with the much-practiced brutal efficiency of the Greek military, the political wheel has turned full circle. Many bones hove been broken in the process, but the country has not been token forward on…
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Lynn Walsh: Letter – Johnstone Distorts Marx and Lenin
[Militant No. 355, 13th May 1977, p. 9] Dear Comrades In his letter Monty Johnstone (in a passage unfortunately left out by a printing error) repeats the assertion that ‘The Bolsheviks struggled up to 1917 for a democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry, specifically distinguished from working class power.” But in the article by…
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Monty Johnstone: Letter – Monty Johnstone Replies
[Militant No. 354, 6th May 1977, p. 9] Dear Comrade. The Marxist theory of the state is far more complex than is understood by G Selva (15th April), who assumes that Republican Spain (1936-39) could only have been either a bourgeois or a workers’ state. Marx and Engels saw the state “as a rule (as)…
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Lynn Walsh: Letter – Lynn Walsh Answers Johnstone
[Militant No. 346, 11th March 1977, p. 9] Dear Comrades The real issues in the debate with Monty Johnstone (of the Communist Party) is the fundamentally mistaken strategy and tactics of the Comintern under Stalin in the Chinese revolution of 1925-7. Comrade Johnstone seems to have lost sight of this. In his letter last week,…
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Monty Johnstone: Letter – Monty Johnstone Again
[Militant No. 345, 4th March 1977, p. 9] Dear Comrade May I enjoy once more the courtesy of your columns for a quick off-the-cuff reply to Lynn Walsh’s criticisms in his article “Trotsky and the Chinese Revolution 1925-27”, which I have just read in your current issue? Obviously this line of argument will get us…