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Alejandro Rojas [Tony Saunois]: The Sandinistas’ defeated – A victory for reaction
[Militant International Review, No 43 Spring 1990, p. 29-32] Alejandro Rojas examines the reasons for the defeat of the FSLN and draws out lessons for future struggles. The recent election defeat of the Sandinista FSLN in Nicaragua will be a big disappointment to activists in the labour movement internationally. It has especially shocked and disorientated…
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Alejandro Rojas [Tony Saunois]: Perspectives for the Nicaraguan revolution
[Militant International Review, No 34 Spring 1987, p. 18-28] The American ‘Irangate’ crisis revealed that money raised from the sale of arms to Iran had been used to finance the Nicaraguan ‘Contras’. Once again the future of the Nicaraguan revolution is being raised in the minds of workers and youth throughout the world. July 1979…
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Rob Sewell: Crisis in Soviet Union
[Militant International Review, No 23, October 1982, p. 13-22] Economy stifled by bureaucracy After six and a half decades of breathtaking progress, catastrophe and upheaval, the USSR still remains for many workers an enormous paradox. On the one side are the colossal achievements; and on the other is the repression of a totalitarian police dictatorship.…
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Roger Silverman: The Gathering Storm in Russia
[Militant International Review, No 3, Autumn 1970, p. 34-47] Every totalitarian regime is by its very nature a regime of crisis, an expression of class deadlock. The Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, which overturned all the political rights won by the revolution, owed its power after the betrayal of the revolution in the West, to the…
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Peter Taaffe: Andropov and after …
[Militant International Review, No 25, February 1984, p. 11-19] Just before he died Moscow wags had already passed verdict on Andropov’s brief fifteen months in power. A variation on an old joke read as follows: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov are travelling on a red train. The train breaks down. “Fix it” orders Stalin. They…
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Peter Taaffe: Russia: Reform or Political Revolution?
[Militant International Review, No 19, Spring 1980, p. 12-18] Review article of Roy Medvedev’s ‘On Socialist Democracy’ published by McMillan Roy Medvedev’s book, “‘On Socialist Democracy”, was first published in Britain in 1975. It is an analysis of the situation which Russia finds itself in 60 years after the Russian Revolution. Although most of the…
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Peter Taaffe: Introduction [to Common Market – No. Socialist Europe – Yes. The Socialist Case]
[Printed in the pamphlet, London, March 1975, p. 1-7] The ‘Socialist Answer to the EEC’ by Ted Grant was written in 1971 on the issue of Britain’s entry into the Common Market. The three years which have elapsed since it was first issued have not rendered this analysis obsolete. On the contrary as the reader…
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Lynn Walsh: Dengs Aufstieg an die Macht
[Eigene Übersetzung des Artikels in „Militant“, 17. Oktober 1986, nachgedruckt in der Broschüre „China. The Tradition of Struggle“, Juni 1989, S. 27] Die Kulturrevolution begann im Wesentlichen als eine von Mao eingeleitete Säuberungsaktion gegen Spitzenpolitiker*innen wie Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping und die Gruppe, die den Apparat zu dieser Zeit beherrschte. Sie hatten Mao nach dem…