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Peter Taaffe: Prospects for Britain under Major
(Militant International Review, No. 48, Summer 1992, p. 2-8) The Tories have won a fourth successive victory but, argues Peter Taaffe, Britain’s underlying economic and social malaise continues. „The economic situation in Britain has reached extreme acuteness. Still, the political superstructure of this arch-conservative country extraordinarily lags behind the changes in the economic basis. Before…
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Peter Taaffe: Liverpool – A City That Dared to Fight
(Militant International Review, No. 36, Winter 1988) An MIR interview with Peter Taaffe, Editor of Militant and co-author, with surcharged Liverpool councillor Tony Mulhearn, of an important new book on the historic struggle of Liverpool council from 1983-87. Liverpool – A City That Dared to Fight MIR: Why write a book on Liverpool Council? PT:…
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Peter Taaffe: A Life on the Right
(Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews The Time of My Life, the autobiography of Denis Healey, for decades a key figure on the Labour right. Denis Healey has occupied a central position within the right-wing of the Labour Party at critical times in its evolution over the last 45 years or…
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Lynn Walsh: The choice before the Labour Party
[Militant International Review, No 27, Autumn 1984, p. 2-9] By Lynn Walsh The outcome of the miners’ strike will be an issue of over-riding importance for this year’s annual Labour Party conference. The preliminary agenda includes over two dozen resolutions on the strike, particularly condemning the brutal tactics being used by the police on Thatcher’s…
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Lynn Walsh: South Africa – A nation still in waiting
[Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 22-25] Following its overwhelming victory in the elections of 27 April 1994, the ANC leadership has consolidated its dominant position in the Government of National Unity (GNU) – and is currently basking in the prestige of the world’s most popular president, enjoying the long after-glow of victory.…
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Lynn Walsh: A period of Depression
[Militant International Review, No 53, p. 19-25] Is the world economy in just another cyclical recession? Or a long-term period of depression? Lynn Walsh examines the arguments. The seasons have changed many times since Clinton, Major, and other capitalist leaders first pointed to ‘green shoots of recovery’. Yet so far, recovery from the recession which…
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Lynn Walsh: Wird der Ölpreisanstieg eine Rezession bedeuten?
(eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant Nr. 1004, 10. August 1990, S. 11) Der gegenwärtige Anstieg des Ölpreises ist nur ein Bruchteil dessen, was 1973 und 1979 geschah, und doch hat er an den Weltbörsen Panik ausgelöst. Der wirtschaftliche Rahmen ist weltweit so wackelig, dass die Kapitalist*innen befürchten, dass die Wachstumslokomotive, die in den…
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Peter Taaffe: Which way for American Blacks?
(Militant International Review, No. 5, January 1972, p. 10-19) By Peter Taaffe The assassination of George Jackson in San Quentin prison in August to be followed three weeks later with the brutal massacre of predominantly black prisoners at Attica Prison, New York, have aroused the anger of the World Labour Movement at the horrifying conditions…
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Peter Taaffe: British Communist Party in Crisis
(Militant International Review, No. 15, Autumn 1978, p. 23-32) By Peter Taaffe In the past year the British Communist Party has received unprecedented attention from the mass media. The polemics with the dissident Stalinist wing and its eventual splitting away to form the „New Communist Party“ was extensively reported. This has been followed by the…