Schlagwort: 1979
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Lynn Walsh: Kampuchea – Wer ist verantwortlich?
(eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant Nr. 478, 9. November 1979, S. 10) Von Lynn Walsh Kampuchea [früher Kambodscha] ist ein verwüstetes Land. Die Mehrheit der verbleibenden vier bis fünf Millionen Menschen sind vom Hunger bedroht. Achtzig bis neunzig Prozent der Kinder des Landes leiden an Unterernährung. Krankheiten wie Malaria, Ruhr und sogar Milzbrand…
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Lynn Walsh: Leon Trotsky: 1879-1979
[Militant No 477, 2 November 1979, p. 8 and 9] A Hundred Years After his Birth, Militant Celebrates a Great Revolutionary Leon Trotsky: 1879-1979 What need is there to justify celebration of the 100th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s birth? Known to history by his pseudonym, Trotsky was born Lev Davidovitch Bronstein in the Ukraine on…
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Lynn Walsh: Labour right continue attack on party democracy
[Militant No. 471, 21st September 1979, p. 8-9] By Lynn Walsh Shirley Williams recently tried to dismiss the crucial debate on democracy within the Labour Party as “like the crewmen on the Titanic deciding to have a punch-up in the engine room.” Her speech, made to a fringe Fabian society meeting at the TUC in…
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Lynn Walsh: Tory Taxation Policy Only Helps Big Business
[Militant No. 450, 6 April 1979, p. 3] “A Tory government would cut the monstrous burden of taxation!” This will be the refrain from Thatcher, Joseph, Howe and the rest during the campaign. For many workers, now paying painful amounts of income tax out of their hard-earned and far-from-adequate wage packet, such a slogan can…
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Lynn Walsh: Kampuchea – Who is responsible?
[Militant No. 478, 9th November 1979, p. 10] By Lynn Walsh Kampuchea [formerly Cambodia] is a devastated country. A majority of its remaining four to five million people face imminent starvation. Eighty or ninety per cent of the country’s children are suffering from malnutrition. Diseases like malaria, dysentery, and even anthrax – which can be…
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Lynn Walsh: Iran – The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
[Militant No. 440, 26th January 1979, p. 10] When the Shah finally left the country last week, hundreds of thousands of jubilant demonstrators filled the streets to celebrate his departure. Portraits and statues – those which remained – were torn down and destroyed. The remnants of the Peacock Throne crumbled like a mummy exposed to…
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Lynn Walsh: Scottish Assembly Now
[Militant No. 446, 9th March 1979, p. 1 and 16] By a narrow majority [51.6%], those who voted in the referendum in Scotland came out in favour of an Assembly as proposed in the government’s Scotland Act. Although the Yes vote – 32.5% (with 37.1% abstaining) – falls short of the 40% minimum imposed by…
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Lynn Walsh: Iran – Shah’s Overthrow Just the Beginning
[Militant No. 437, 5th January 1979, p. 1 and 16] Time and time again in the last few weeks over a quarter of Tehran’s 4½ million population have taken to the streets demanding the Shah’s downfall. Events in Iran have acquired a revolutionary momentum of their own. Day after day, in defiance of martial law,…
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Jim Chrystie: Nicaragua: Somoza goes – the struggle continues
[Militant, 27 July 1979] „He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.“ President Roosevelt’s words on installing the first Somoza as head of Nicaragua in 1933 came home to roost last week. In the first successful mass uprising in Latin America since Castro came to power twenty years…
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Peter Taaffe: China
[This pamphlet reproduces the three articles on China published in ‘Militant’ in July 1979. Some minor alterations and corrections have been added by the author. Printed August 1979] Contents The Meaning of the Cultural Revolution Workers Fight Bureaucratic Stranglehold The Foreign Policy of the Bureaucracy The Meaning of the Cultural Revolution There has been an…