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  • David Cameron: Zaire: Mobutu on the Brink

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    [Socialism Today, No 18, May 1997, p. 21-24] Seven months after the outbreak of the rebellion in Eastern Zaire, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of the Congo (Zaire), led by Laurent Kabila, is on the verge of power. David Cameron writes. The seven-month campaign by Laurent Kabila has taken his Alliance forces…

  • Elaine Brunskill: Abortion rights: 30 years on

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    [Socialism Today, No 23, November 1997, p. 8-9] The decriminalisation of abortion, which took place thirty years ago this month, was an enormous step forward for women. The 1967 Abortion Act was the first in a series of reforms such as the equal pay and sex discrimination legislation. These gains were made by women who…

  • Phil Hearse: Mexico sunrise?

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    [Socialism Today, No 21, September 1997, p. 22-24] Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRD suffered its worst electoral defeat in 68 years on 6 July when it lost its overall majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Not only that but the left-centre PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) replaced the right wing PAN (National Action…

  • Niall Mulholland: Bombs Hit Mid-East ‚Peace‘

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    [Socialism Today, No 21, September 1997, p. 6-8] On 30 July two Palestinians strapped high explosives to their bodies and detonated themselves in Jerusalem’s crowded Manhaneh Yehuda street market. Fourteen people were killed as a result. “The Israeli response was typically swift and brutal.” The Israeli response was typically swift, brutal and indiscriminate. A total…

  • James Long: Challenges facing the European Left

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    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 19-23] Everywhere in Europe workers face difficult conditions in the class struggle. !n future issues MIR will be looking in detail at the left in the major European countries. Here James Long gives an overview of recent European developments which provide the backdrop to the tasks of…

  • Labor Militant: Rising anger behind US election results

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    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 24-25] Last November’s US elections saw the Republicans win both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. Did this mark a big shift to the right in US politics? The following is an edited statement by supporters of US Labor Militant. The Republicans went…

  • Phil Hearse: The End of Socialism?

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    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 14-18] Phil Hearse reviews The Age of Extremes – The Short Twentieth Century, by Eric Hobsbawm, published by Michael Joseph, 1994, price £20. Eric Hobsbawm is Britain’s leading living historian writing from a broadly Marxist perspective. However, as Hobsbawm himself notes, writing about the 20th century is…

  • John Bulaitis: Wagnermania

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    [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…

  • Tony Saunois: Mexican crisis, Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas

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    [Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 18-21] Sixty thousand Mexican troops, together with US and Argentinian ‘advisors’, are besieging the guerrillas of the Zapatista National Liberation Front (EZLN) in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Unable to hunt down and crush the guerrillas, they are wrecking the peasants’ villages, destroying their tools and poisoning…

  • Margaret Creear: No child of mine

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    [Socialism Today, No 17, April 1996, p. 6-7] The recent TV documentary-drama, No child of mine, was a sensitive and careful attempt to portray the character of child abuse. The story of Kerry, sexually abused from early childhood, was set against a background of ‘normality’, a middle-class household not a single-parent family on a run-down…