Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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Peter Taaffe: A Life on the Right
(Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews The Time of My Life, the autobiography of Denis Healey, for decades a key figure on the Labour right. Denis Healey has occupied a central position within the right-wing of the Labour Party at critical times in its evolution over the last 45 years or…
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Lynn Walsh: The choice before the Labour Party
[Militant International Review, No 27, Autumn 1984, p. 2-9] By Lynn Walsh The outcome of the miners’ strike will be an issue of over-riding importance for this year’s annual Labour Party conference. The preliminary agenda includes over two dozen resolutions on the strike, particularly condemning the brutal tactics being used by the police on Thatcher’s…
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Lynn Walsh: South Africa – A nation still in waiting
[Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 22-25] Following its overwhelming victory in the elections of 27 April 1994, the ANC leadership has consolidated its dominant position in the Government of National Unity (GNU) – and is currently basking in the prestige of the world’s most popular president, enjoying the long after-glow of victory.…
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Lynn Walsh: A period of Depression
[Militant International Review, No 53, p. 19-25] Is the world economy in just another cyclical recession? Or a long-term period of depression? Lynn Walsh examines the arguments. The seasons have changed many times since Clinton, Major, and other capitalist leaders first pointed to ‘green shoots of recovery’. Yet so far, recovery from the recession which…
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Peter Taaffe: Which way for American Blacks?
(Militant International Review, No. 5, January 1972, p. 10-19) By Peter Taaffe The assassination of George Jackson in San Quentin prison in August to be followed three weeks later with the brutal massacre of predominantly black prisoners at Attica Prison, New York, have aroused the anger of the World Labour Movement at the horrifying conditions…
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Peter Taaffe: British Communist Party in Crisis
(Militant International Review, No. 15, Autumn 1978, p. 23-32) By Peter Taaffe In the past year the British Communist Party has received unprecedented attention from the mass media. The polemics with the dissident Stalinist wing and its eventual splitting away to form the „New Communist Party“ was extensively reported. This has been followed by the…
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Peter Taaffe: Bosnia’s Killing Fields
(Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, 2-7) Should the labour movement back military intervention? Or sanctions against Serbia? Peter Taaffe examines the Bosnian nightmare. The Bosnian crisis is now at a turning point. The harrowing accounts of mutilated children in Srebrenica, the photographs of injured soldiers like scenes from the first world war, combined…
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Peter Taaffe: The Need for Words
(Militant International Review, No. 53, September-October 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews two books providing a fascinating insight into the voice, its relationship to personality and ultimately of society the dhé (emphatic) .demons. adj. called the definite article, used to denote a particular person or thing need néd, n. want of something which one cannot do without;…
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Peter Taaffe: Marxism and the State: Who Really Threatens Democracy
(Militant International Review, No. 22, June 1982, p. 25-32) By Peter Taaffe “Marxism equals totalitarianism and violence.” This is the persistent theme of the capitalists and their media in their campaign against ‘Militant’. All the notes on the political keyboards, from the ultra-right Daily Mail to the august Times and the alleged ‘Labour’ papers the…
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Peter Taaffe: 1977: A Disaster Year for Workers
(Militant No. 387, 6 January 1978, p. 6-7) “The average voter has just suffered the biggest fall in his real disposable income for more than 100 years” [‘Economist’, 8th October 1977]. This is a fitting epitaph for 1977. Millions of British workers will not be sorry to see the back of the past year. For…