Schlagwort: nationalism
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John Pickard: Iran-Iraq war
[Militant, No 529, 21 November 1980, p. 10-11] Which future for Middle East revolution? The Iran-Iraq war exploded onto the world almost without warning, like a thunderbolt from a clear blue sky. Such is the underlying instability and uncertainty of our time. Only in August the Economist Intelligence Unit concluded that, „For the short term,…
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John Pickard: The Struggle for Kurdish Rights
[Militant, No 495, 21 March 1980, p 10 and No 498, 11 April 1980, p. 10] John Pickard, in the first of a two-part article, looks at oppression of Kurdish people. In a later article, he examines the situation in Iran, and the question of self-determination for the Kurdish nation. „The Kurds have no friends.“…
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John Bulaitis: Wagnermania
[Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 30-32] Following Channel Four’s series on the composer Richard Wagner, John Bulaitis looks at the life and art of this controversial 19th century figure. The centrepiece of Channel Four’s Wagnermania series was an interesting documentary entitled Wagner vs Wagner featuring the composer’s great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner. The documentary…
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Roger Silverman: Introduction [to the New Edition of Ted Grant’s The Menace of Fascism—What It Is and How to Fight It ]
[From the new edition of the pamphlet, 1978] The republication of Ted Grant’s classic pamphlet The Menace of Fascism comes at a timely moment. Written in 1948 when the relics of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts were attempting to regroup their battered forces in the grim “austerity” days of the postwar Labour Government, its republication today…