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Jeremy Birch: Third World living standards and the post-war boom. . . ‚An unending nightmare of squalor and destitution‘
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Summer 1986, p. 12-15] During the prolonged world economic upswing of 1950 to 1973 more was produced than in all the centuries of human endeavour combined up until then. This brought rising living standards compared to the inter-war years and virtual full employment to Europe and North America. Based upon…
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Alan Woods: Latin America on the brink
[Militant International Review, No. 24, November 1983, p. 12-26] The ending of the exceptional period of upswing in the world economy from 1950 to 1975, and the beginning of a new period of organic capitalist crisis, has opened up an entirely different situation on a world scale, a fundamental feature of which is the phenomenon…
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John Pickard: U.S.A. Perspectives
[Militant International Review, No 19, Spring 1980, p. 19-24] In the mid-term Congressional elections in November 1978, the last major national elections, two thirds of the registered voters didn’t even bother to take part. That in itself is an indictment of the American political system, a clear expression of the widespread contempt shown to Congress.…
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Andrea Enisuoh: Reverse the fear
[Militant International Review, No 53, September-October 1993, p. 16-18] Andrea Enisuoh asks, what can be done to defend black and Asian communities from racist attacks? The murder in April of Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white thugs produced renewed calls in the black and Asian community for something to be done to stop racist…
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Margaret Creear: No immunity
[Militant International Review, No 47, 1992, p. 26-30] Margaret Creear examines the questions raised by the January report of the Law Commission, which reversed a 250-year-old ruling on marital immunity for rape. In 1917 the new Soviet government in the USSR abolished marital immunity for rape. This was part of wholesale changes made in the…
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Harriet Gill: Abuse – Bell’s Cleveland witchhunt
[Militant International Review, No 40, Summer 1989, p. 18-21] Harriet Gill, a London social worker who specialises in family and child-care work, analyses the issues arising from the Butler-Sloss enquiry. The most immediate questions that arise from the Cleveland child abuse events are: why does child sex abuse happen and how can it be prevented?…
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Jen Pickard: Women in the Soviet Union
[Militant International Review, No 37, Autumn 1988, p. 19-23] In his book Perestroika: New Thinking for our Country and the World, Gorbachev claims that women in the Soviet Union have “the same right to work as men, equal pay … every opportunity to get an education, to have a career and to participate in social…