Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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Lynn Walsh: The economics of Perestroika
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 19-21] Abel Aganbegyan is Gorbachev’s chief economic advisor. The recent publication in the West of his book, The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika (Hutchinson £8.95), is itself an indication of the profound crisis now facing the ruling bureaucracy of the Soviet Union. Until recently official Soviet economists denied…
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Militant: Introduction (to the pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“)
[pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 1] Since Gorbachev’s first statements about glasnost in 1986, and his speech at the February 1987 Communist Party congress, the ruling bureaucracy in the Soviet Union has been in turmoil. More significantly, the divisions and splits at the top have been the signal for the biggest movement of the working…
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Jeremy Birch: Bureaucracy or Workers’ Democracy?
[pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 2-5] The western press’ enthusiastically applauded Gorbachev’s performance at the June 1988 special Communist Party conference. They praised his ‘democratic reforms’, his courage and steadfastness. Many workers and young people in Britain are now asking: Will Gorbachev really clear out bureaucratism, will the Russian workers now be able to enjoy…
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Peter Taaffe: Splits at the Top, Upheavals from Below
[20 May 1988, pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 10-17] “Revolution starts from the top”, said Marx. Sensing an impending revolt by the working class, the summits of society begin to split into different camps, one looking for reforms to stave off the deluge, while another looks towards increasing repression. Marx was speaking about differences within…
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Peter Taaffe: Gorbachev’s National Dilemma
[25 March 1988, pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 19-29] The mighty events in Armenia just a few weeks ago have shaken the Stalinist regime represented by Gorbachev to its foundations. Never before, at least in its own ‘backyard’, has the bureaucratic elite which dominates Russian society faced a challenge on such a scale. A mounting…
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Peter Taaffe: Gorbachev and the Left
[Militant International Review, No 38, Autumn 1988, p. 7-14] Peter Taaffe, Editor of the Militant, examines the response of the left of the British labour movement to the tumultuous events unfolding in the USSR and Eastern Europe. The coming to power of Gorbachev over three years ago was undoubtedly a momentous event in the evolution…
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Lynn Walsh: Poland and Hungary Returning to capitalism?
[Militant International Review, No 42, Winter 1990, p. 16-27] Lynn Walsh considers whether it is possible or even likely that Poland and Hungary could revert to the orbit of capitalism. There are many conditional factors involved. The political revolution has begun. The earthshaking movement of the Vorkuta, Siberian and Ukrainian miners during 1989 has rocked…
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Peter Taaffe: From bureaucrat to dissident
[Militant International Review, No 28, January 1985, p. 9-15] Peter Taaffe analyses the recently published memoirs of Pyotor Grigorenko. The figure of Grigorenko is familiar to those who followed the so-called „dissident“ movement in Russia in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Because of his determined and heroic opposition to Stalinism he was the only Red…
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Ted Grant: National Democratic Revolution or Proletarian Revolution: The Tasks in Germany
[Workers International News, vol. 7 no.1, January-February 1947, p 18-27, the substantial extract published in The Unbroken Thread is here] (Discussion Article) The comrades of the I.K.D. (a section of the German Émigré Trotskyists) have replied to our criticism of their Three Theses in an article entitled Two Balance Sheets published in October 1946 Workers…
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Revolutionary Communist Party: The Programme of the Communist Party of Germany: A Criticism and an Alternative
[Workers International News, Vol. 6. No. 6, April-May 1946, p 185-192] Editorial Note: – The following article was issued recently in the German language by the British RCP. it has been distributed in Germany amongst members of the German Communist Party as a discussion document and an appeal to join forces with the Fourth International.…