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[Militant International Review, No 41, Autumn 1989, p. 27-30, 48] The bloody massacre in Tiananmen Square has provoked worldwide horror and anger. Lynn Walsh analyses the magnificent uprising against the bureaucracy, which marks the opening of China’s political revolution. The upsurge against the bureaucracy arose from a period of rapid economic growth. The political crisis…

Lynn Walsh: German unification: capitalism triumphant?

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[Militant International Review, No 43, Spring 1990, p. 14-22] Lynn Walsh argues that, in the absence of a clear alternative, the collapse of East Germany’s Stalinist regime, combined with the overwhelming impression of prosperity in West Germany, undermined the movement towards the political revolution begun by last years mass demonstrations. What are the prospects now?…

Lynn Walsh: Die Wirtschaft der Perestroika

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[Militant International Review, Nr 37, Sommer 1988, S. 19-21] Abel Aganbegjan ist Gorbatschows Haupt-Wirtschaftsberater. Die jüngste Veröffentlichung seines Buches „The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika“ (Hutchinson £8.95) im Westen ist ein Hinweis auf die tiefe Krise, in der sich die herrschende Bürokratie der Sowjetunion befindet. Bis vor kurzem haben die offiziellen sowjetischen Ökonomen geleugnet, dass es…

Lynn Walsh: The economics of Perestroika

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[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 19-21] Abel Aganbegyan is Gorbachev’s chief economic advisor. The recent publication in the West of his book, The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika (Hutchinson £8.95), is itself an indication of the profound crisis now facing the ruling bureaucracy of the Soviet Union. Until recently official Soviet economists denied…

Militant: Introduction (to the pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“)

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[pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 1] Since Gorbachev’s first statements about glasnost in 1986, and his speech at the February 1987 Communist Party congress, the ruling bureaucracy in the Soviet Union has been in turmoil. More significantly, the divisions and splits at the top have been the signal for the biggest movement of the working…

Jeremy Birch: Bureaucracy or Workers’ Democracy?

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[pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 2-5] The western press’ enthusiastically applauded Gorbachev’s performance at the June 1988 special Communist Party conference. They praised his ‘democratic reforms’, his courage and steadfastness. Many workers and young people in Britain are now asking: Will Gorbachev really clear out bureaucratism, will the Russian workers now be able to enjoy…

Peter Taaffe: Splits at the Top, Upheavals from Below

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[20 May 1988, pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 10-17] “Revolution starts from the top”, said Marx. Sensing an impending revolt by the working class, the summits of society begin to split into different camps, one looking for reforms to stave off the deluge, while another looks towards increasing repression. Marx was speaking about differences within…

Peter Taaffe: Gorbachev’s National Dilemma

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[25 March 1988, pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 19-29] The mighty events in Armenia just a few weeks ago have shaken the Stalinist regime represented by Gorbachev to its foundations. Never before, at least in its own ‘backyard’, has the bureaucratic elite which dominates Russian society faced a challenge on such a scale. A mounting…

Peter Taaffe: Gorbatschow und die Linke

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