Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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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…
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Phil Frampton: Jesse Jackson and the black struggle
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 22-27] Twenty years ago Martin Luther King, America’s foremost black civil rights activist, was assassinated. Two decades later the successes of Jesse Jackson’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 US Presidential elections has once again raised the question, which way forward for blacks in the…
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Kevin Fernandes: Black Sections – Constitutional substitute for socialist policies
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 16-17] At the 1985 Labour Party conference a resolution calling for the setting up of black sections in the Party was defeated with 1,169,000 votes in favour and 5,358,000 against. Prior to the conference the Labour Party NEC had set up a “Working Group on positive discrimination“…
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Bob Lee: The Inner cities erupt – what lies ahead for blacks in Britain?
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 14-18] Eighty per cent of blacks who vote support Labour. But this instinctive class solidarity could ultimately give way to despair if the Labour leaders fail to offer a way forward. Last summer’s inner-city upheavals highlighted the plight of the oppressed minorities. They also provided a fresh…
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Margaret Creear: Women in Revolt
[Militant International Review, No 28, Winter 1985, p. 4-8] For Marxists, the movement of the miners’ wives and the many thousands of other women who have supported the miners in this dispute, is a welcome continuation on a higher level of the upsurge of militancy amongst working class women in recent years. It underlines the…
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Peter Taaffe: Marxism in Today’s World
[CWI Publications and Socialist Publications Ltd 2006, First Edition November 2006] Answers on War, Capitalism and Environment The Committee for a Workers’ International Preface and Acknowledgements 1 9/11 and After 2 The World Situation 3 The Middle East 4 Ireland and the National Question 5 The Permanent Revolution Today 6 The Working Class Today 7…
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History – Militant and the CWI
Could you sum up the history, firstly, of Militant and, secondly, of the CWI? What were the major landmarks? Militant did not drop from the sky. We trace our antecedents back to the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain and, of course, to Trotsky’s International Left Opposition. My generation joined in the early 1960s, others later.…