Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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Peter Taaffe: The Cheering has Stopped in India
(Militant No. 359, 10 June 1977, p. 7) By Peter Taaffe (Editor of Militant) “Clenched fists and marching workers are back on the streets of Calcutta, the heart of West Bengal’s industrial belt,” reported Reuters news agency on 24th May. A wave of strikes, sit-ins and demonstrations have swept India as the working class attempts…
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Peter Taaffe: Cecil King Diary 1970-74
(Militant No. 286, 9 January 1976, p. 5) What the ruling-class really think When Cecil King published his diaries in 1972 – covering the period of 1965 to 1970 – it caused uproar [see Militant nos. 132 and 141]. The capitalists were outraged that their innermost thoughts, their fears and hatred of the Labour Movement…
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Peter Taaffe: Defend Black Panthers from Police Assassins
(Militant No. 60, January 1970 p. 2, of course we would today not use the N-word) By Peter Taaffe The bestial murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, Black Panther leaders in Chicago, in December followed a few days later by the police attack on the Panthers‘ Los Angeles headquarters has revealed to the World…
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Peter Taaffe: Spain on the eve of revolution
(Militant No. 244, 21 February 1975, p. 6) Spain is on the eve of Revolution! The “ravings” of Marxism perhaps? No – this is the sober verdict of the Spanish Capitalists and their counterparts in this country. Thus the Spanish monarchist newspaper A.B.C. has recently declared … The regime is decomposing”. The right wing Catholic…
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Peter Taaffe: Trade union Unity and the Future of the Portuguese Revolution
(Militant No. 243, 14 February 1975 p. 3) By Peter Taaffe A reader has written to Militant asking what position we take towards the recent introduction of the “trade union unity” law in Portugal. The Provisional Government – backed by the “Communist” Party – has ratified the law which imposes one trade union federation for…
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Peter Taaffe: Tribune and the struggle for socialism – policies do not break with capitalism
(Militant No. 255, 9 May 1975, p. 4-5) The two elections in 1974 marked a decisive turning point in the post-war development of the Labour movement in Britain. In the preceding four years under the whip of Heath’s ‘counter-revolution’ against their rights and conditions the working class had been enormously radicalised. This was reflected in…
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Peter Taaffe: National Turmoil Erupts in USSR
(Militant International Review, No. 42, Winter 1990) Gorbachev’s reforms have unleashed the outrage of the national minorities within the USSR, suppressed for decades by Stalinism. But as Peter Taaffe explains, Gorbachev’s solutions to the ‘national problem’ are a million miles removed from Lenin’s. „There has not been a single quiet day in the last one…
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Peter Taaffe: Memoirs of Stalin’s Spymaster – The Trotskyists Were Right
(Militant No. 400, 7 April 1978, p. 8-9) Reviewed by Peter Taaffe – Part 1 When “The Great Game” was first published last year it was widely commented on in the capitalist press. To read the reviews would be to suppose that the chief merit of this book lay in the account of the author,…
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Peter Taaffe: “Militant” and the Communist Party
(Militant No. 447, 16 March 1979 p. 11) The communist Party has invited a number of different left-wing newspapers to contribute articles for their fortnightly magazine ‘Comment’. The following article from Peter Taaffe, editor of ‘Militant’, appears in the current issue of ‘Comment’. ‘Militant’ welcomes this opportunity to outline our differences with the CP and…
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Peter Taaffe: Memoirs of Stalin’s Master Spy – The myth of the great war leader exploded
(Militant 401, 14 April 1978, p. 8-9) In the second part of his review of ‘The Great Game’, Peter Taaffe covers Trepper’s recollections of the great purge of ‘Old Bolsheviks’ and Stalin’s disastrous military policies at the beginning of the second world war. In ‘The Great Game’, Leopold Trepper provides a graphic picture of how…