Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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Lynn Walsh: Qaddafi terror strikes in Britain
[Militant No. 697, 27th April 1984, p. 13] By Lynn Walsh With a violent shock, television pictures of the horrifying shooting in St James’s Square have brought Libya’s political conflicts to the attention of everyone in Britain. The unprovoked shooting of anti-Qaddafi demonstrators from the embassy, and the killing of a policewoman, have aroused horror…
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Lynn Walsh: When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia
[Militant No. 511, 11th July 1980, p. 8] By Lynn Walsh (review of Andrew Rothstein’s ‘When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia: The Consul Who Rebelled’) The Tories in Britain, and the representatives of capitalism internationally, have whipped up a frenzied propaganda campaign against the Russian invasion in Afghanistan. But in 1917, when the workers and peasants…
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Lynn Walsh: Iran – The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
[Militant No. 440, 26th January 1979, p. 10] When the Shah finally left the country last week, hundreds of thousands of jubilant demonstrators filled the streets to celebrate his departure. Portraits and statues – those which remained – were torn down and destroyed. The remnants of the Peacock Throne crumbled like a mummy exposed to…
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Lynn Walsh: Greece: The Meaning of the Coup
[Militant No. 185, 14th December 1973, p. 3 and 6] By Lynn Walsh (Ardwick Labour Party) With the latest coup, carried through with the much-practiced brutal efficiency of the Greek military, the political wheel has turned full circle. Many bones hove been broken in the process, but the country has not been token forward on…
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Lynn Walsh: Rural reaction
[Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 9-10] Lynn Walsh on the Countryside Alliance, a political reaction dressed up in a populist lament about rural decline. The countryside’s march swamped central London on Sunday, 1 March. The night before, a chain of hilltop beacons rallied support and signalled the alleged threat to Rural England –…