Schlagwort: Militant
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Lynn Walsh: Trotsky and the Chinese Revolution 1925-1927
[Militant No. 343, 18 February 1977, p. 6-7] An answer to the letter from Monty Johnstone , of the British Communist Party, by Lynn Walsh Last week [‘Militant’ No 342] we printed a letter from Monty Johnstone of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Comrade Johnstone took up a number of points, particularly on the…
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Militant: Militant Gives Opponent a Hearing
[Militant No. 342, 11th February 1977] ‘Militant’ 335 [17 December 1976] carried a letter from Ian Findlay, National Education Officer of the Young Communist League, chiding us for not producing a reply to Monty Johnstone’s “Trotsky and World Revolution”, published in ‘Cogito’ as the second part of a “major critique” of the ideas and activities…
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Militant: Trotsky and Revolution
[Militant No. 335, 17th December 1976, p. 9] Dear Comrades, Will ‘Militant’ be making any reply to, or a review of the recent Young Communist League publication COGITO entitled “Trotsky and World Revolution” (published May 1976 and now reprinted). This represents the second part of a major critique by the YCL of the ideas of…
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Lynn Walsh: Scottish Assembly Now
[Militant No. 446, 9th March 1979, p. 1 and 16] By a narrow majority [51.6%], those who voted in the referendum in Scotland came out in favour of an Assembly as proposed in the government’s Scotland Act. Although the Yes vote – 32.5% (with 37.1% abstaining) – falls short of the 40% minimum imposed by…
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Lynn Walsh: Bring Down the Tories
[Militant No. 493, 7th March 1980, p. 1 and 2] The 9 March national demonstration must be the starting point of an all-out, mass campaign to bring down the Tory government. Thatcher’s government is the most viciously anti-working class in Britain since the period of crisis and depression before the second world war. The new…
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Lynn Walsh: Tories incite bigots
[Militant No. 883, 12th February 1988, p. 6] The Lords last week approved a pernicious law. Clause 28 of the Tories‘ Local Government Bill will become infamous. The Bill now says that local authorities „shall not promote homosexuality or publish material for the promotion of homosexuality“. Nor shall they „promote the teaching in any maintained…
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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: Iran – Shah’s Overthrow Just the Beginning
[Militant No. 437, 5th January 1979, p. 1 and 16] Time and time again in the last few weeks over a quarter of Tehran’s 4½ million population have taken to the streets demanding the Shah’s downfall. Events in Iran have acquired a revolutionary momentum of their own. Day after day, in defiance of martial law,…
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Lynn Walsh: Six expelled in Blackburn
[Militant No. 682, 13th January 1984, p. 1] “It was an ugly meeting and a very ugly decision!” This was just one of the angry comments of party activists after Monday’s decision by Blackburn Labour Party to expel six Militant supporters. The comrades defended themselves against a barrage of fabricated stories, smears and outright lies…
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Lynn Walsh: Nearly 40 years late, the French communist party has admitted that Stalin ordered Trotsky’s assassination
[Militant No. 426, 6th October 1978, p. 8-9] The PCF leadership has touched on a subject which threatens to have explosive repercussions within their own ranks. In mentioning the historical personality of Trotsky, however tentatively, the CP leaders cannot but foster interest among CP-influenced workers, for whom Trotsky’s ideas were previously official anathema. Nearly forty…