Sozialistische Klassiker

Kategorie: CWI and prehistory

  • Lynn Walsh: The Nightmare Scenario

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    [Socialism Today, No. 30, July 1998] An obscene and potentially extremely dangerous nuclear arms race has opened up on the south Asian subcontinent. What lies behind this renewed arms race and what are the prospects for a nuclear exchange? Lynn Walsh writes. On 11-13 May, India (after 24 years without nuclear tests) carried out a…

  • Lynn Walsh: Heading For A Slump

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    [Socialism Today, No. 24, December 1997, p. 11-16] The world economic situation of capitalism has changed dramatically in a few weeks. Until recently, capitalist commentators presented glowing reports on its health. But now the illusion of a ’new paradigm‘, a renaissance of ‚free market‘ capitalism, is being shattered, as the world economy heads for a…

  • Lynn Walsh: The Politics of Zippergate

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    [Socialism Today, No. 6, March 1996, p. 16-19] The Chief Executive of the world’s most powerful state is embroiled in a new sleaze crisis – Zippergate. Incredibly, this revolves around the allegation that president Clinton had sex with a 21-year-old former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, and that he and his advisors conspired to get…

  • Lynn Walsh: Albania: Imperialism Intervenes

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    [Socialism Today, No. 18, May 1997, p. 15-16] Berisha’s days are numbered. The mass, armed uprising which began early in March suspended his regime in the air. The president lost control of the South, but the southern rebels, loosely organised by salvation committees, lacked the strength to march on Tirana. There was a deadlock between…

  • Lynn Walsh: European capitalist unity in crisis

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    [Socialism Today, No. 6, March 1996] Lynn Walsh examines the growing fears among European capitalist leaders that monetary union won’t happen as planned, throwing their plans for political union into turmoil ‚France prepares for EMU‘ was the front-cover caption for the Economist on 9/15 December. The dramatic colour photo showed a demonstrator pouring petrol onto…

  • Lynn Walsh: Comment – Dodging The Taxing Questions

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    [Militant International Review, No 34, Spring 1987, p. 15-17] Prologue: A costly trip Last Summer, Labour’s deputy leader, Roy Hattersley, addressed a select covey of bankers and financiers at New York’s plush Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The trip was paid for by city stockbrokers, Samuel Montague (a subsidiary of Midland Bank). The aim, according to the…

  • Lynn Walsh: Tigers Fight Back

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    [Socialism Today, No. 16, March 1997, p. 7] Workers in the unregulated, low-wage industries of the Asian Tigers are beginning to fight back. Alarm bells began to ring in the boardrooms of the big Japanese and other multi-nationals at the end of last year, when enraged workers at the Sanyo Universal Electric Company in Bangkok…

  • Lynn Walsh: The Chinese Puzzle

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    [Militant International Review, No 56, March 1994, p. 26-32] How can China’s ‘economic miracle’ and since Tiananmen, its apparent political stability, be explained? Lynn Walsh looks at The Chinese Puzzle. China, it seems, is different. Since 1989 the advanced capitalist countries have been experiencing recession and only feeble economic recoveries. Most of the economically underdeveloped…

  • Lynn Walsh: Spycatcher, Thatcher and the State

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    [Militant International Review, No 36, Winter 1988, p. 28-35] Thatcher’s prolonged battle to suppress Spycatcher, the memoirs of former MI5 officer Peter Wright, have once again focussed attention on the role of the secret security and intelligence services. Enormous resources have been used to prevent Wright’s disclosures reaching a mass audience. At least £1 million…

  • Lynn Walsh: Tony & Bill

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    [Socialism Today, No. 19, June 1997, p. 15-17] Tony Blair’s invitation to Bill Clinton to become the first-ever overseas head of state to attend a British government cabinet meeting is another example of the close ties between the New Democrats and New Labour – from policies to presidential-style campaigning. Lynn Walsh writes. ‚So much of…