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Peter Taaffe: Bosnia’s Killing Fields
(Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, 2-7) Should the labour movement back military intervention? Or sanctions against Serbia? Peter Taaffe examines the Bosnian nightmare. The Bosnian crisis is now at a turning point. The harrowing accounts of mutilated children in Srebrenica, the photographs of injured soldiers like scenes from the first world war, combined…
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Peter Taaffe: The Need for Words
(Militant International Review, No. 53, September-October 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews two books providing a fascinating insight into the voice, its relationship to personality and ultimately of society the dhé (emphatic) .demons. adj. called the definite article, used to denote a particular person or thing need néd, n. want of something which one cannot do without;…
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Peter Taaffe: Marxism and the State: Who Really Threatens Democracy
(Militant International Review, No. 22, June 1982, p. 25-32) By Peter Taaffe “Marxism equals totalitarianism and violence.” This is the persistent theme of the capitalists and their media in their campaign against ‘Militant’. All the notes on the political keyboards, from the ultra-right Daily Mail to the august Times and the alleged ‘Labour’ papers the…
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Peter Taaffe: 1977: A Disaster Year for Workers
(Militant No. 387, 6 January 1978, p. 6-7) “The average voter has just suffered the biggest fall in his real disposable income for more than 100 years” [‘Economist’, 8th October 1977]. This is a fitting epitaph for 1977. Millions of British workers will not be sorry to see the back of the past year. For…
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Peter Taaffe: Greece – After the Election – Only the Workers Movement can Guard Against Reaction
(Militant No. 240, 24 January 1975, p. 4-5) By Peter Taaffe The biggest demonstrations in the history of Greece, the referendum which gave the thumbs down to the monarchy by a margin of more than two to one, the clamour for the former dictators and their accomplices to be punished; this is the situation in…
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Peter Taaffe: Right-Wing Terror in Argentina
(Militant No. 231, 15 November 1974, p. 4-5) Arm the workers against reaction A few months before his death on 1st July, Perón, speaking of the challenge to his government from the revolutionary movement of the workers and peasants declared to a delegation of Young Peronists … “If we do not have the law we…
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Peter Taaffe: Russian economy: choked by bureaucracy
(Militant No. 688, 24 February 1984 p. 8-9) The death of Andropov and his replacement by the even greyer and older Chernenko has been the occasion for the hirelings of capital in Fleet Street to predictably point to the deficiencies of the Stalinist regime, its totalitarian character, massive corruption, etc. By this means they seek…
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Peter Taaffe: Spain in Turmoil
(Militant No. 333, 26 November 1976 p. 6-7) 20th November was the first anniversary of the death of Spain’s blood soaked former dictator Franco. By way of ‘celebration’, and to show that nothing has changed for them under Franco’s royal heir Juan Carlos, eight days earlier at least one and a half million Spanish workers…
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Peter Taaffe: Labour’s disastrous coalition
(Militant No. 694, 6 April 1984, p. 10) By Peter Taaffe The capitalist media now has a conscious policy of playing down workers‘ struggles abroad for fear of encouraging similar movements in Britain. They have ignored the colossal ferment taking place in Southern Ireland, for example, which can exercise an enormous effect on workers‘ struggles…
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Peter Taaffe: The Observer Backs its Right-Wing Friends
(Militant, No. 538, 6 February 1981, p. 7) “The Observer” claims to uphold democracy, particularly “freedom of the press”. Yet after a direct attack on ‘Militant’ in its editorial, this champion of “press freedom” has allowed us only a token right of reply, printing our answering letter with crucial points cut out. The deleted parts…