Schlagwort: 1979
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Bob Labi: Iran: New stage in revolution
[Militant International Review, No. 17, Autumn 1979, p. 17-21] The rapid development of the Iranian revolution since the February 10/11 insurrection has demonstrated clearly that the Iranian masses saw the Shah’s overthrow as a green light for deepening their struggle for a better life. The past few months have shown how the tremendous pressure of…
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Ted Grant: Die iranische Revolution
[Militant, 9. und 16. Februar 1979] Letzte Woche gingen in einer der größten Demonstrationen in der menschlichen Geschichte mehr als drei Millionen Iraner*innen auf die Straßen Teherans, um die Rückkehr des religiösen Führers Ajatollah Khomeini zu begrüßen. In der vorigen Woche hatte es Barrikaden und Kämpfe von Arbeiter*innen mit der Armee gegeben. In Szenen, die…
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Peter Taaffe: „Forward into the ‚Eighties“
(Militant International Review, No. 18, Winter 1980, p. 3-11) Peter Taaffe, editor of ‚Militant‘, looks at the current situation in Britain and points the way forward for Labour. The 1970s was a disastrous decade for the British ruling class. In the last ten years they have seen a further decline in their position. From a…
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Peter Taaffe: Tory Press Smear Workers’ Paper
(Militant, No. 471, 21 September 1979 p. 8-9) We publish below a letter sent by Peter Taaffe, on behalf of ‘Militant’ to the ‘News Of The World’ in answer to their attack on us on 9th September. Readers of this vulgar Sunday scandal sheet were led towards an “exclusive” – which revealed “the [so-called] truth…
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Peter Taaffe: “Militant” and the Communist Party
(Militant No. 447, 16 March 1979 p. 11) The communist Party has invited a number of different left-wing newspapers to contribute articles for their fortnightly magazine ‘Comment’. The following article from Peter Taaffe, editor of ‘Militant’, appears in the current issue of ‘Comment’. ‘Militant’ welcomes this opportunity to outline our differences with the CP and…
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Peter Taaffe: The church and the struggle for liberation
(Militant No. 449, 30 March 1979, p. 6) The second of three articles In last week’s ‘Militant’, Peter Taaffe analysed the role of Islam in the Iranian revolution. In the second article he looks at developments within the Catholic Church in Latin America over the past two decades. The ‘Economist’ recently pointed out that “Since…
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Peter Taaffe: The Church and the Mosque – is there a Religious Revival?
(Militant No. 448, 23 March 1979 p. 11 [I think we would today not use the term ‚Islamic church‘]) The first of three articlesBy Peter Taaffe A vast crowd of three million people turned out to greet Ayatollah Khomeini when he returned to Iran. One and a half million people welcomed the Pope when he…
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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…