Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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Peter Taaffe: Greece – After the Election – Only the Workers Movement can Guard Against Reaction
(Militant No. 240, 24 January 1975, p. 4-5) By Peter Taaffe The biggest demonstrations in the history of Greece, the referendum which gave the thumbs down to the monarchy by a margin of more than two to one, the clamour for the former dictators and their accomplices to be punished; this is the situation in…
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Peter Taaffe: Right-Wing Terror in Argentina
(Militant No. 231, 15 November 1974, p. 4-5) Arm the workers against reaction A few months before his death on 1st July, Perón, speaking of the challenge to his government from the revolutionary movement of the workers and peasants declared to a delegation of Young Peronists … “If we do not have the law we…
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Peter Taaffe: Russian economy: choked by bureaucracy
(Militant No. 688, 24 February 1984 p. 8-9) The death of Andropov and his replacement by the even greyer and older Chernenko has been the occasion for the hirelings of capital in Fleet Street to predictably point to the deficiencies of the Stalinist regime, its totalitarian character, massive corruption, etc. By this means they seek…
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Peter Taaffe: Spain in Turmoil
(Militant No. 333, 26 November 1976 p. 6-7) 20th November was the first anniversary of the death of Spain’s blood soaked former dictator Franco. By way of ‘celebration’, and to show that nothing has changed for them under Franco’s royal heir Juan Carlos, eight days earlier at least one and a half million Spanish workers…
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Peter Taaffe: Labour’s disastrous coalition
(Militant No. 694, 6 April 1984, p. 10) By Peter Taaffe The capitalist media now has a conscious policy of playing down workers‘ struggles abroad for fear of encouraging similar movements in Britain. They have ignored the colossal ferment taking place in Southern Ireland, for example, which can exercise an enormous effect on workers‘ struggles…
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Peter Taaffe: The Observer Backs its Right-Wing Friends
(Militant, No. 538, 6 February 1981, p. 7) “The Observer” claims to uphold democracy, particularly “freedom of the press”. Yet after a direct attack on ‘Militant’ in its editorial, this champion of “press freedom” has allowed us only a token right of reply, printing our answering letter with crucial points cut out. The deleted parts…
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Peter Taaffe: Mirror refuses reply
(Militant No. 577, 13 November 1981, p. 3) In a prominent editorial on 26th October, the Daily Mirror, so-called ‘Labour’ paper, published a vicious editorial against the Militant, suggesting that the Left was “costing the party the votes of thousands of its ordinary, decent supporters”, and calling for the expulsion of Militant supporters. In the…
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Peter Taaffe: Tory Press Smear Workers’ Paper
(Militant, No. 471, 21 September 1979 p. 8-9) We publish below a letter sent by Peter Taaffe, on behalf of ‘Militant’ to the ‘News Of The World’ in answer to their attack on us on 9th September. Readers of this vulgar Sunday scandal sheet were led towards an “exclusive” – which revealed “the [so-called] truth…
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Peter Taaffe: National apprentices movement formed through the strike
(Militant, No. 3, January 1965, p. 4-5, reprinted in Militant Broadsheet April 1977 p. 3) By Peter Taaffe Walton YS Previous apprentices struggles have seen the top union leaders either neutralised or forced into reluctant support. This strike revealed that their co-operation with the industrial peace plans of the Wilson government meant that they would…
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Peter Taaffe: Ruling class crime
(Militant No. 755, 28 June 1985, p. 7) There are a lot of hidden swindles within big business which never see the light of day. The Times, the day before the JMB report broke, lifted a little stone to reveal the monstrous rackets of big business in the United States. In America at the moment…