Schlagwort: Tories
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Lynn Walsh: Verleumdungskampagne gegen die CND ist eines Goebbels würdig
(eigene Übersetzung des englischen Artikels in Militant Nr. 653, 1. Juni 1981, S. 9) Von Lynn Walsh Auf Anweisung Thatchers sind das Außen- und das Verteidigungsministerium mit der „konzentriertesten Propagandakampagne“ beschäftigt, „die es in Großbritannien in Friedenszeiten gegeben hat.“ Dies berichtet der Tory-„Sunday Telegraph“. Die Tory-Führung wurde durch den wachsenden Protest gegen die Aufrüstung mit…
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Lynn Walsh: Sozialistische Antwort auf den Faschismus
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant Nr. 340, 28. Januar 1977, S. 5] Die National Front hat bei den letzten Parlaments- und Kommunalwahlen beträchtliche Gewinne verbuchen können. Sie schlachten die bittere Enttäuschung über die Politik der Labour-Regierung aus und nutzen eine üble rassistische Propaganda, um Unterstützung zu gewinnen. Sie werden großzügig von der Gossenpresse…
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Lynn Walsh: Smear Campaign on CND Worthy of Goebbels
[Militant No. 653, 1st June 1981, p. 9] By Lynn Walsh Under Thatcher’s orders, the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence are engaged in “the most concentrated propaganda campaign to be launched in Britain in peace time.” And this comes from the Tory Sunday Telegraph. The Tory leadership has been shaken by the growing protest…
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Lynn Walsh: Thatcher at bay
[Militant No. 709, 20th July 1984, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh The miners‘ strike has shattered the illusion of Thatcher’s impregnable majority. Preoccupied with class battle in the coalfields, where they thought they would win a quick and easy victory, the Tories have committed a series of disastrous blunders on other fronts: on Liverpool (forced…
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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: 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: Bosses Plan New Attack on Unions
[Militant No. 429, 27th October 1978, p. 1 and 12] By Lynn Walsh The Labour government must drop wage restraint and carry out bold socialist policies to benefit workers. The Ford workers’ action for better pay and conditions having an effect in unexpected quarters. Church of England parsons met in London to discuss how to…
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Lynn Walsh: ‘Smile Tho’ Your Jobs are Going’
[Militant No. 536, 23rd January 1981, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh Smile, Thatcher urged us in her New Year message, and things will soon be getting better. Do the Tories really believe this? Is their “optimism” a cynical con-trick, or are they really self-deluded idiots? Faced with gloomy predictions from all the main economic commentators,…
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Lynn Walsh: Prentice Defects
[Militant No. 377, 14th October 1977, p. 1 and 2] Goodbye and good riddance! That is the reaction of most Labour Party members to Reg Prentice’s defection to the Tory Party. “If I blame myself for anything,” Prentice told Walden on ‘Weekend World’, “it is that I did not leave the Labour Party earlier.” This…