Schlagwort: Militant
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Peter Taaffe: The Observer Backs its Right-Wing Friends
(Militant, No. 538, 6 February 1981, p. 7) “The Observer” claims to uphold democracy, particularly “freedom of the press”. Yet after a direct attack on ‘Militant’ in its editorial, this champion of “press freedom” has allowed us only a token right of reply, printing our answering letter with crucial points cut out. The deleted parts…
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Peter Taaffe: Mirror refuses reply
(Militant No. 577, 13 November 1981, p. 3) In a prominent editorial on 26th October, the Daily Mirror, so-called ‘Labour’ paper, published a vicious editorial against the Militant, suggesting that the Left was “costing the party the votes of thousands of its ordinary, decent supporters”, and calling for the expulsion of Militant supporters. In the…
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Peter Taaffe: Tory Press Smear Workers’ Paper
(Militant, No. 471, 21 September 1979 p. 8-9) We publish below a letter sent by Peter Taaffe, on behalf of ‘Militant’ to the ‘News Of The World’ in answer to their attack on us on 9th September. Readers of this vulgar Sunday scandal sheet were led towards an “exclusive” – which revealed “the [so-called] truth…
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Peter Taaffe: National apprentices movement formed through the strike
(Militant, No. 3, January 1965, p. 4-5, reprinted in Militant Broadsheet April 1977 p. 3) By Peter Taaffe Walton YS Previous apprentices struggles have seen the top union leaders either neutralised or forced into reluctant support. This strike revealed that their co-operation with the industrial peace plans of the Wilson government meant that they would…
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Peter Taaffe: Ruling class crime
(Militant No. 755, 28 June 1985, p. 7) There are a lot of hidden swindles within big business which never see the light of day. The Times, the day before the JMB report broke, lifted a little stone to reveal the monstrous rackets of big business in the United States. In America at the moment…
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Peter Taaffe: The Cheering has Stopped in India
(Militant No. 359, 10 June 1977, p. 7) By Peter Taaffe (Editor of Militant) “Clenched fists and marching workers are back on the streets of Calcutta, the heart of West Bengal’s industrial belt,” reported Reuters news agency on 24th May. A wave of strikes, sit-ins and demonstrations have swept India as the working class attempts…
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Peter Taaffe: Cecil King Diary 1970-74
(Militant No. 286, 9 January 1976, p. 5) What the ruling-class really think When Cecil King published his diaries in 1972 – covering the period of 1965 to 1970 – it caused uproar [see Militant nos. 132 and 141]. The capitalists were outraged that their innermost thoughts, their fears and hatred of the Labour Movement…
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Peter Taaffe: Defend Black Panthers from Police Assassins
(Militant No. 60, January 1970 p. 2, of course we would today not use the N-word) By Peter Taaffe The bestial murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, Black Panther leaders in Chicago, in December followed a few days later by the police attack on the Panthers‘ Los Angeles headquarters has revealed to the World…
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Peter Taaffe: Spain on the eve of revolution
(Militant No. 244, 21 February 1975, p. 6) Spain is on the eve of Revolution! The “ravings” of Marxism perhaps? No – this is the sober verdict of the Spanish Capitalists and their counterparts in this country. Thus the Spanish monarchist newspaper A.B.C. has recently declared … The regime is decomposing”. The right wing Catholic…
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Peter Taaffe: Trade union Unity and the Future of the Portuguese Revolution
(Militant No. 243, 14 February 1975 p. 3) By Peter Taaffe A reader has written to Militant asking what position we take towards the recent introduction of the “trade union unity” law in Portugal. The Provisional Government – backed by the “Communist” Party – has ratified the law which imposes one trade union federation for…