Schlagwort: 1978
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Lynn Walsh: ABC Secrets Case – Re-Trial Ordered After Jury Foreman Found to be Ex-SAS Man
[Militant No. 424, 22nd September 1978, p. 2] The “ABC” secrets trial at the Old Bailey was halted by Mr Justice Willis on Monday following the mention on LWT’s ‘Saturday Night People’ programme that one of the jurors was an ex-SAS paratrooper. Judge Willis condemned the mention by Christopher Hitchen of the ‘New Statesman’ of…
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Lynn Walsh: Rhodesia: White Regime losing ground
[Militant No. 316, 6th August 1976, p. 8] Remorseless pressure from the guerrilla fighters is steadily undermining the position of the Smith regime. Despite all the usual official denials, it is clear that the Rhodesian security forces are having more and more difficulty holding their own. Not only have the guerilla incursions continued along the…
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Lynn Walsh: Nearly 40 years late, the French communist party has admitted that Stalin ordered Trotsky’s assassination
[Militant No. 426, 6th October 1978, p. 8-9] The PCF leadership has touched on a subject which threatens to have explosive repercussions within their own ranks. In mentioning the historical personality of Trotsky, however tentatively, the CP leaders cannot but foster interest among CP-influenced workers, for whom Trotsky’s ideas were previously official anathema. Nearly forty…
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Lynn Walsh: What is happening in Ethiopia?
[Militant No. 395 – 3rd March 1978, p. 10] In the last few weeks the Ethiopian regime has begun a massive counter-offensive against Somali-backed forces in Ogaden, the region of Ethiopia claimed by Somalia. From all accounts, vast quantities of Russian arms have been air-lifted in and the Ethiopian army has been stiffened with about…
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Lynn Walsh: Zaire – Why France sent the Foreign Legion
[Militant, No. 409, 9th June 1978, p. 10-11] In the past, the ruling classes of Europe have boasted of their “civilising” role in Africa, and of how they granted “emergent nations” their independence when “the time was ripe”. Events in Zaire, however, reveal just how far direct colonial domination was replaced by indirect exploitation –…
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Lynn Walsh: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Ogaden – Only International Perspectives can resolve National Antagonisms
[Militant No. 396, 10th March 1978, p. 8-9] There is turmoil in Ethiopia, with the regime of the Dergue fighting a bitter war on two fronts. Last week’s article explained the momentous events in Ethiopia since the fall of Haile Selassie in 1974. Analysing the social character of the new regime, it explained that, on…
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Roger Silverman: Introduction [to the New Edition of Ted Grant’s The Menace of Fascism—What It Is and How to Fight It ]
[From the new edition of the pamphlet, 1978] The republication of Ted Grant’s classic pamphlet The Menace of Fascism comes at a timely moment. Written in 1948 when the relics of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts were attempting to regroup their battered forces in the grim “austerity” days of the postwar Labour Government, its republication today…
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Roger Silverman: Einleitung zur Neuauflage von 1978 von Ted Grants „Die Bedrohung des Faschismus – Was er ist und wie wir ihn bekämpfen“
[eigene Übersetzung aus der Broschüre von 1978] Die Neuveröffentlichung von Ted Grants klassischer Broschüre Die Bedrohung des Faschismus kommt zum richtigen Zeitpunkt. Sie wurde 1948 geschrieben, als die Überbleibsel von Sir Oswald Mosleys Schwarzhemden versuchten, ihre stark mitgenommenen Kräfte in den harten Tagen der ,Austeritätspolitik’ der Labour-Nachkriegsregierung umzugruppieren. Ihre Neuveröffentlichung heute fällt mit dem Wiederauftauchen…