Schlagwort: Trade Union
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Peter Taaffe: The British Trade Unions – The Giant Awakens!
(Militant International Review, No. 7, 1973, p. 2-16) By Peter Taaffe „There is no power in the world which could for a day resist the British working class organised as a body.“ Thus wrote Frederick Engels 92 years ago in an article dealing with the British unions. Yet there is nothing more ‚modern‘, nothing which…
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Peter Taaffe: The Brutal Face of Toryism Behind the „Liberal“ Mask.
(Militant International Review, No. 14, Summer 1978, p. 3-12) By Peter Taaffe Review article of „Inside Right – a study in Conservatism“ by Ian Gilmour. Published by Hutchinson and Co Lid. When it was first published last autumn this book attracted a lot of attention from capitalist commentators. Some hailed it as a definitive answer…
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Peter Taaffe: „Forward into the ‚Eighties“
(Militant International Review, No. 18, Winter 1980, p. 3-11) Peter Taaffe, editor of ‚Militant‘, looks at the current situation in Britain and points the way forward for Labour. The 1970s was a disastrous decade for the British ruling class. In the last ten years they have seen a further decline in their position. From a…
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Peter Taaffe: Prospects for Britain under Major
(Militant International Review, No. 48, Summer 1992, p. 2-8) The Tories have won a fourth successive victory but, argues Peter Taaffe, Britain’s underlying economic and social malaise continues. „The economic situation in Britain has reached extreme acuteness. Still, the political superstructure of this arch-conservative country extraordinarily lags behind the changes in the economic basis. Before…
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Peter Taaffe: Spain in Turmoil
(Militant No. 333, 26 November 1976 p. 6-7) 20th November was the first anniversary of the death of Spain’s blood soaked former dictator Franco. By way of ‘celebration’, and to show that nothing has changed for them under Franco’s royal heir Juan Carlos, eight days earlier at least one and a half million Spanish workers…
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Peter Taaffe: Labour’s disastrous coalition
(Militant No. 694, 6 April 1984, p. 10) By Peter Taaffe The capitalist media now has a conscious policy of playing down workers‘ struggles abroad for fear of encouraging similar movements in Britain. They have ignored the colossal ferment taking place in Southern Ireland, for example, which can exercise an enormous effect on workers‘ struggles…
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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: 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…
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Peter Taaffe: “Militant” and the Communist Party
(Militant No. 447, 16 March 1979 p. 11) The communist Party has invited a number of different left-wing newspapers to contribute articles for their fortnightly magazine ‘Comment’. The following article from Peter Taaffe, editor of ‘Militant’, appears in the current issue of ‘Comment’. ‘Militant’ welcomes this opportunity to outline our differences with the CP and…
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Peter Taaffe: USA Today
(Militant International Review, No. 57, August 1994) Militant Labour General Secretary Peter Taaffe, a recent visitor to the US, examines the perspectives for the world’s greatest superpower. ‚The American tradition is based on expectations of rising wealth. Large parts of the population are now faced with the reality of being poorer than their parents or…