Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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Paul Jones and Peter Taaffe: Crisis in Northern Ireland – The Question in Perspective
(Militant International Review, No. 3, Autumn 1970, p. 19-33) by Paul Jones and Peter Taaffe The stormy events in Northern Ireland, involving the mass uprising of the Catholic population of Derry and Belfast a little over a year ago, the deployment of 11,000 British troops, the daily street fighting, armed clashes and bomb incidents, together…
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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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Lynn Walsh: Eine Periode der Depression
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant International Review, Nr. 53, September-Oktober 1993 S. 19-25] Ist die Weltwirtschaft nur in einer weiteren zyklischen Rezession? Oder in einer langfristigen Periode der Depression? Lynn Walsh untersucht die Argumente. Die Jahreszeiten haben viele Male gewechselt, seit Clinton, Major und andere führende kapitalistische Politiker*innen erstmals auf „grüne Triebe der…
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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: Poll tax – Thatcher’s terminal crisis?
(Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990, p. 7-13) The poll tax has become a lightning conductor for the accumulated bitterness at eleven years of Thatcherism. Peter Taaffe examines perspectives for Britain. “As Trotskyists the world over scurry for cover, their British comrades are suddenly on the march in the vanguard of the working class…
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Peter Taaffe: After Thatcher
(Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 3-9) Peter Taaffe analyses the reasons for the fall of Thatcher and looks at the perspectives now „Tory MPs likened each other to rats, vipers and vultures.“ (The Independent, 25 November, 1990.) In the Militant International Review in Spring 1989 we wrote that „the more serious…
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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: Liverpool – A City That Dared to Fight
(Militant International Review, No. 36, Winter 1988) An MIR interview with Peter Taaffe, Editor of Militant and co-author, with surcharged Liverpool councillor Tony Mulhearn, of an important new book on the historic struggle of Liverpool council from 1983-87. Liverpool – A City That Dared to Fight MIR: Why write a book on Liverpool Council? PT:…