Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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Martin Powell-Davies: Kick Out the Kids?
[Socialism Today, No 15, February 1997, p. 10-11] School exclusions are rocketing Lewisham NUT secretary Martin Powell-Davies asks whether there’s an alternative. The action by teachers at The Ridings and Manton schools last year to demand the exclusion of ‚unteachable‘ students has pushed the issue of school discipline into the spotlight. Some teachers were angered…
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Nancy Taaffe: Loach’s Best?
[Socialism Today, No 16, March 1997, p. 30] Nancy Taaffe reviews the latest film by socialist director, Ken Loach. Carla’s song is the latest joint venture between director Ken Loach and writer Paul Lavery. The film tells the story of George (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas) and is primarily concerned with the relationship that…
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Christine Thomas: Another Moral Panic
[Socialism Today, No 16, March 1997, p. 9] ‚Working mums damage children’s education‘ screamed the media headlines. ‚Flawed research causes working mums‘ guilt trip‘ would have been more to the point. Based on research from the University of North London, Panorama claimed that the children of full-time working mums are failing exams. At almost the…
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David Cameron: Zaire: Mobutu on the Brink
[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…
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Elaine Brunskill: Abortion rights: 30 years on
[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…
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Phil Hearse: Mexico sunrise?
[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…
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Niall Mulholland: Bombs Hit Mid-East ‚Peace‘
[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…
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James Long: Challenges facing the European Left
[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…
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Labor Militant: Rising anger behind US election results
[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…
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Phil Hearse: The End of Socialism?
[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…