Sozialistische Klassiker

Kategorie: CWI and prehistory

  • Peter Taaffe: Red is the colour of our flag

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    (Militant International Review, No. 46, Summer 1991) Peter Taaffe reviews the recently published autobiography of Oskar Hippe, a fighter in the German workers‘ movement for over six years. Oskar Hippe joined the pre-first world war German Social Democratic Party (SPD) under the influence of his radical elder brother. He swung over in support of Rosa…

  • Peter Taaffe: Transitional Demands and the Question of the Student Grant

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    (Bulletin December 1975 p. 8-10) In recent months a discussion has taken place in the student caucus which has a certain importance for the tendency as a whole. It revolved around the issue of student grants but the discussion naturally touched on the nature of transitional demands, the correct way to pose them and the…

  • Peter Taaffe: Citizens By Simon Schama

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    (Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990) Published by Viking, 1989, £20 Reviewed by Peter Taaffe In last year’s avalanche of literature on the 200th anniversary of the French revolution, Simon Schama’s book Citizens was singled out by bourgeois reviewers. Little wonder for, as he admits, he adopts „the unfashionable top-down“ rather than „bottom-up“ approach.…

  • Peter Taaffe: Crushing the workers in the Export Processing Zones

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    (Socialism Today No 10, July 1996) Behind the Wire – Anti-Union Repression in the Export Processing Zones. Published by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), 1996. Reviewed by Peter Taaffe. This booklet is a companion report to the ICFTU publication World’s Apart – Women and the Global Economy, reviewed in last month’s issue…

  • Peter Taaffe: Blair’s First Month

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    (Socialism Today No 19, June 1997) The Blair government ‘hit the ground running’ with a raft of early measures, giving the impression of change. But, argues Peter Taaffe, impressions of change will not satisfy the aroused expectations reflected in Labour’s election landslide. The 1 May British general election has opened up a new and decisive…

  • Peter Taaffe: The Real Nelson Mandela

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    (Socialism Today No 5, February 1996) Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela, 1995. Reviewed by Peter Taaffe. This account of Nelson Mandela’s eventful life offers many insights even to those familiar with the main landmarks in the South African struggle. It is impossible not to be moved by the heroic struggle it recounts, the…

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour Left: Heading For A Split?

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    (Socialism Today No 25, February 1998) ‚Our consciences say we must split with Tory Blair‘, was the headline over an article by Ken Coates and Hugh Kerr, MEPs, in the Observer (28 December). This defiance of the Labour leaders by an estimated six left MEPs comes after the success of the left at Labour’s October…

  • Peter Taaffe: Tories – Is The Party Over?

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    (Socialism Today No 13, November 1996) Will the Tory party split after the next election? For almost a decade the fault lines among Tories have been deepening. The uneasy coalition which makes up the modern Tory party was held together by factors which have already disappeared, or are rapidly disappearing, says Peter Taaffe. The British…

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour and Socialism

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    (Socialism Today No 12, October 1996) When Labour backbencher Kim Howells called for the ditching of the word ’socialism‘, Tony Blair went onto BBC Radio’s Today programme to back him. Peter Taaffe asks whether Labour still has anything to do with the ‚S‘ word. Just under a year ago we argued „that the Labour Party…

  • Peter Taaffe: 1797-1997 Gracchus Babeuf – Communist Pioneer

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    (Socialism Today No 18, May 1997) 27 May is the 200th anniversary of the death of Gracchus Babeuf, the great French revolutionary and ‚father of communism‘. Peter Taaffe looks at his life and legacy. Appropriately the anniversary of Babeuf’s death comes less than a month after the British general election whose victor, Tony Blair, ascended…