Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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Topical Index: CWI and Prehistory
Ted Grant: Programme of the International [Internal Document, 1970] World Economy – Post-war Upswing Ted Grant: From Perspectives 1946 [First part of an internal Document] Ted Grant: Marxism Versus New Fabianism (Part 1) and Marxism Versus New Fabianism (Part 2) [The International Socialist. A Journal of Labour Opinion, vol. 1, No 4, November- December 1952…
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Jimmy Deane: What’s going on in the Kremlin? – Khrushchev’s fall proves shakiness of Soviet bureaucrats
[The Militant, No 2, November 1964] The successful launching by the Soviet Union of a capsule containing three men into earth orbit astonished the world with its technical and scientific achievement. Two days after this important and spectacular event the world was shaken by the news that Khrushchev had been deposed from a position which…
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6th World Congress of the CWI: Racism, Fascism and the Future for Reaction
[First draft written in November 1993, presented by the International Secretariat, voted in December 1993] An important feature of the present world situation is a certain growth of the forces of reaction: racism, fascist and neo-fascist organisations in Europe; vicious ethnic and national conflict in the former Stalinist states of Eastern Europe and the former…
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Militant: Revolution in Portugal
[Militant, issue 207, 3 May 1974, some lines are missing] By our correspondent All the forces of world reaction are watching with horror the revolutionary storm which is sweeping Portugal. They understand from their class point of view that the events there threaten the regime in Spain, and the stability of Europa, Africa and Latin…
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Bob Labi (LPYS National Committee): Portugal – Workers Confront Capitalists
[Militant, issue 207, 24 May 1974, p. 3 and 6] The strikes in Portugal are a clear sign that the working class will no longer tolerate a continuation of the old conditions. Their already low wages have been fast eroded by rapid inflation: 6% in February of this year alone. 200.000 textile workers threatened strike…
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Jim Chrystie: Nicaragua: Somoza goes – the struggle continues
[Militant, 27 July 1979] „He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.“ President Roosevelt’s words on installing the first Somoza as head of Nicaragua in 1933 came home to roost last week. In the first successful mass uprising in Latin America since Castro came to power twenty years…
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Alejandro Rojas [Tony Saunois]: The Sandinistas’ defeated – A victory for reaction
[Militant International Review, No 43 Spring 1990, p. 29-32] Alejandro Rojas examines the reasons for the defeat of the FSLN and draws out lessons for future struggles. The recent election defeat of the Sandinista FSLN in Nicaragua will be a big disappointment to activists in the labour movement internationally. It has especially shocked and disorientated…
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Alejandro Rojas [Tony Saunois]: Perspectives for the Nicaraguan revolution
[Militant International Review, No 34 Spring 1987, p. 18-28] The American ‘Irangate’ crisis revealed that money raised from the sale of arms to Iran had been used to finance the Nicaraguan ‘Contras’. Once again the future of the Nicaraguan revolution is being raised in the minds of workers and youth throughout the world. July 1979…
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Rob Sewell: Crisis in Soviet Union
[Militant International Review, No 23, October 1982, p. 13-22] Economy stifled by bureaucracy After six and a half decades of breathtaking progress, catastrophe and upheaval, the USSR still remains for many workers an enormous paradox. On the one side are the colossal achievements; and on the other is the repression of a totalitarian police dictatorship.…