Schlagwort: 1981
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Lynn Walsh: Right-Wing Rejects – And Labour’s Future
[Militant No. 536, 23rd January 1981, p. 8-9] The Labour Party must campaign to oust the Tories and fight for socialist policies The 24th January will be a crucial day for the Labour Party. By Lynn Walsh The great majority of Labour Party members will be waiting for the Special Conference to write into the…
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Lynn Walsh: Make Police Accountable
[Militant No. 571, 3rd October 1981, p. 8-9] By Lynn Walsh The riots which erupted in Brixton, Toxteth and other cities in the summer of 1981 once again focused attention on the role of the police. In particular, they highlighted the almost complete lack of accountability, and the need for the labour movement to campaign…
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Lynn Walsh: BBC censored: No Need to know
[Militant No. 539, 13th February 1981, p. 5] Just occasionally the BBC’s programme-makers investigate a sensitive, secret aspect of the state power. But when they do, they are immediately censored by the powers that be! This is clear from the decision to drop the screening of a special inquiry into the work of the British…
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Lynn Walsh: ‘Smile Tho’ Your Jobs are Going’
[Militant No. 536, 23rd January 1981, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh Smile, Thatcher urged us in her New Year message, and things will soon be getting better. Do the Tories really believe this? Is their “optimism” a cynical con-trick, or are they really self-deluded idiots? Faced with gloomy predictions from all the main economic commentators,…
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Lynn Walsh: Trade union rights for police
[Militant No. 571, 3rd October 1981, p. 9] Workers taking industrial action – particularly when organising picketing, a vital trade union right – have time and again come into conflict with the police. With the Tones‘ new anti-trade union legislation, and the threat of worse to come with Norman Tebbit at the Department of Employment,…
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Ted Grant: Marxism against Sectarianism
[June 1981, Reprinted in Bulletin of Marxist Studies, Summer 1985. It was wrong to label women’s liberation, black liberation or gay liberation as middle class or liberal issues. Not the issues, but the approach of several groups is middle class or liberal] In his document submitted to the International Forum, comrade GM raises a number…
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George Edwards [Ted Grant]: Marxismus gegen Sektierer*innentum
[Juni 1981, eigene Übersetzung des Nachdrucks im Bulletin of Marxist Studies, Sommer 1985, Es war falsch, Themen wie Frauen-, Schwulen- oder Schwarzenbefreiung als Mittelschichtthemen zu bezeichnen, statt die Herangehensweise bestimmter Gruppen an diese Themen] In seinem Dokument, das er dem Internationalen Forum vorlegte, warf Genosse GM eine Reihe von grundlegenden Differenzen mit der Theorie und…