Kategorie: CWI and prehistory
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Dave Beale: ‚Lean Production‘ – The New Management Techniques
[Socialism Today, No 7, April 1996, p. 19-22] In many workplaces the employers‘ offensive against the workforce comes under the name of „new management techniques‘. The latest example is the Employee Agenda proposals in the Royal Mail. Dave Beale, author of Driven by Nissan? A critical guide to the New Management Techniques, outlines the new…
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Robin Clapp: Global Myths
[Socialism Today, No 7, April 1996, p. 15-18] ‚Globalisation‘ is the buzzword of the 1990s. But is the international economy really ‚globalised‘? Have the vast daily movements of capital across national borders swept all before them? Can national governments and the world labour movement do anything to resist the relentless forward march of transnational corporations?…
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Vince Dicey: Oscar Wilde. Pioneer of Gay Liberation?
[Socialism Today, No 7, April 1996, p. 26-29] One hundred years ago Oscar Wilde was languishing in Reading gaol, after one of Britain’s most famous courtroom dramas. Here Vince Dicey examines Wilde and the anti-gay witch hunt which broke him with prison and exile At the start of 1895 a friend proclaimed Wilde ‚as well-known…
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Christine Thomas: A blow to the right to choose
[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 8] ‘New wave’ US feminist Naomi Wolf has defected to the anti-abortionists’ camp. Although she says that abortion should be legal and is sometimes necessary, she has launched a vitriolic attack on pro-choice supporters. In an article in the US magazine New Republic she condemns those campaigning for…
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Andrea Enisuoh: The Million Man March
[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 7] In one of the biggest demonstrations in the US since Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in 1963, legions of black men converged on Capitol Hill on 16 October. The ‘Million Man March’, called by the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Ben Chavis, the ex-director…
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Phil Clarke: OJ jurors find US justice system guilty
[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 6] The vast media coverage of the OJ Simpson trial sucked viewers and readers into discussion within the terms presented in the court soap opera – did he, or did he not, do it? Many got confused about where their sympathies lay in answering that question. On the…
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Peter Taaffe: Blair’s Australian model
[Socialism Today, No 17, April 1997, p. 21-24] On his notorious 1995 trip to Rupert Murdoch’s luxurious Hayman Islands retreat, Tony Blair swapped notes with Australian premier Paul Keating. Since then, Keating has been pushed from office in a wave of disillusionment with Labor. Peter Taaffe looks at the lessons of Blair’s Australian model. In…
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Peter Taaffe: Diana Outpouring – Virtual Protest
[Socialism Today, No 22, October 1997, p. 13-17] The death of Princess Diana on 31 August triggered off emotional and unprecedented scenes of public grief and soul-searching throughout Britain and beyond. It was accompanied by the coming out onto the streets of London in particular, but in other cities also, of hundreds of thousands and…
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Peter Taaffe: Russia’s agony
[Socialism Today, No 28, May 1998, p. 24-28] Peter Taaffe reviews a recently published book, Rebirth of a Nation – an Anatomy of Russia, by the former Financial Times Moscow correspondent, John Lloyd (Michael Joseph Publishing, £20). John Lloyd built a reputation in the 1980s as a perceptive industrial reporter for the Financial Times, particularly…
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Lynn Walsh: Rehabilitating Trotsky
[Militant International Review, No 44, Summer 1990, p. 6-11] The open re-appraisal of Trotsky in the USSR, argues Lynn Walsh, is the key to understanding the rise of Stalinism – and to formulating a programme which can provide the working class with a way out of the bureaucratic impasse. “Restoring historical and judicial justice is…