Schlagwort: 1989
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Peter Taaffe: Can Labour win?
(Militant International Review, No. 39, Spring 1989) By Peter Taaffe The guiding principle of Labour’s leadership has been ‚NUNGE‘, (Nothing Until after the Next General Election). Indeed it has at times been their only ‚principle‘! Any attempt to go outside the prescribed narrow parliamentary boundaries has evoked the wrath of Labour’s front bench. In the…
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Peter Taaffe: Bureaucrats tremble before workers‘ movement
(Militant International Review, No. 41, Autumn 1989) Peter Taaffe explains how the political revolution against Stalinism in Eastern Europe has begun. The MIR has long predicted that Gorbachev’s attempts at ‚reforms from the top‘ would provoke revolution, political revolution, from below. The mighty strike wave of the Soviet miners in July confirms that analysis. Like…
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Lynn Walsh: China: The First Act
[Militant International Review, No 41, Autumn 1989, p. 27-30, 48] The bloody massacre in Tiananmen Square has provoked worldwide horror and anger. Lynn Walsh analyses the magnificent uprising against the bureaucracy, which marks the opening of China’s political revolution. The upsurge against the bureaucracy arose from a period of rapid economic growth. The political crisis…
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Ted Grant: Weltfrieden oder instabiler Waffenstillstand?
[eigene Übersetzung aus: Militant International Review, Nr. 40 (Sommer 1989), S. 3-8] Die jüngsten Verhandlungen zwischen Russland und den Vereinigten Staaten und ihren Verbündeten, einschließlich des Reagan-Gorbatschow-Gipfels, sollen den Weltfrieden bringen. Sie nährten die Illusion, dass Frieden durch „guten Willen“ und den aufrichtigen Wunsch, eine Einigung zu erzielen, erreicht werden könne. Aber dies ist grundlegend…