Schlagwort: USA
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Lynn Walsh: Der Kampf für den Frieden … ist der Kampf für den Sozialismus
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant Nr. 649, 6. Mai 1983, S. 8 und 9] Die britische Regierung führte kürzlich einen unterirdischen Atomtest in Nevada durch. Die Presse berichtete, dass es sich um eine „kleine Explosion“ gehandelt habe, die weniger als 20.000 Tonnen TNT entsprach, etwa so groß wie die Bombe, die 1945 Hiroshima…
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Lynn Walsh: Postscript [to the new edition of Jan Valtin’s Out of the Night]
[Jan Valtin, Out of the Night, Fortress, London 1988, p. 659-677] Jan Valtin’s Out of the Night was first published in 1941 in the United States, by the Alliance Book Corporation of New York. It immediately became a best seller, and eventually sold over a million copies. The first British edition was published in May…
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Lynn Walsh: Der Imperialismus und der Golfkrieg 1990-91
[Eigene Übersetzung der Broschüre, geschrieben im Winter 1990-91, online veröffentlicht 2003] Vorwort Die Arbeit an dieser Broschüre wurde im Wesentlichen kurz vor dem Beginn des grausamen Luftkriegs gegen den Irak am 17. Januar 1991 abgeschlossen, dem 38-tägigen Vorspiel zu dem kurzen, aber verheerenden viertägigen Landangriff der US-amerikanischen, britischen, französischen und anderen imperialistischen Streitkräfte. Es sollte…
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Lynn Walsh: On the Brink of War
[Militant No. 1006, 31 August 1990, p. 8 and 9] Lynn Walsh looks at the effect on the world The forces for war in the Middle East are in place. The massive build-up of US weaponry and troops continues day and night. For the moment US president Bush appears to have stepped back from the…
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Lynn Walsh: Trickle down
[Militant, No. 1265, 1 March 1996, p. 8 and 9] Making the rich richer benefits the poor, argue right-wing economists. Reality proves otherwise, says Lynn Walsh. Trickle down Rich and poor in the USA In the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States president who introduced the reformist New Deal policy, in which government money…
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Lynn Walsh: The Struggle for Peace … is the Struggle for Socialism
[Militant No. 649, 6 May 1983, p. 8 and 9] The British government recently carried out an underground nuclear test in Nevada. The press reported that it had been a „small explosion“, equivalent to less than 20,000 tons of TNT, about the size of the bomb that obliterated Hiroshima in 1945. But this bomb was…
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Militant: Iranian Fiasco
[Editorial, Militant no. 501, p. 2] The abortive attempt to rescue the 50 American hostages from the embassy in Tehran was a desperate measure on the part of Carter. The President himself had earlier said that any such attempt would almost certainly lead to the death of the hostages. Yet clearly, the pressure of public…
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Lynn Walsh: U.S.: Wealth and Poverty!
[Militant No. 19, September 1966, p. 2 and 3. Of course in later texts Lynn Walsh did not use the word “Negro” any more] Struggle of Negro workers and students By Lynn Walsh The United States of America is the richest country in the history of the World. Its productive wealth has recently been estimated…