Schlagwort: 1993
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Kevin Simpson: The break-up of Yugoslavia
[Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 17-20] The Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Branka Magas. Published by Verso, £12-96. Available from World Socialist Books, 3-13 Hepscott Road, London E9 5HB. “Have you ever seen a wedding without meat?” This indifferent response by an Albanian Kosovar miner was given to a journalist asking whether he…
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Nick Wrack:Resisting the Euro-right
[Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 2-7] How far can reaction go? Nick Wrack looks at the rise of the European far-right. The recent growth of far-right and neo Nazi groups across Europe, the increased votes for these organisations and especially the horrendous increase in racist attacks and murders, raises a series of…
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Margaret Creear: An unnatural system
[Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, p. 19-25] What are the causes of today’s social problems? Margaret Creear examines the ’nature or nurture‘ debate. The murder of Jamie Bulger in Bootle became the occasion for a national offensive by the Tories, and academics linked two them. to put the blame for violence, juvenile crime.…
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Militant International Review: After the cold war
[Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993, p. 2-7] This is the most disturbed period in world relations since that which followed the Versailles treaty at the end of World War One. The Collapse of the Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has dramatically altered world relations. From 1945 to 1989 the…
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Andrea Enisuoh: Reverse the fear
[Militant International Review, No 53, September-October 1993, p. 16-18] Andrea Enisuoh asks, what can be done to defend black and Asian communities from racist attacks? The murder in April of Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white thugs produced renewed calls in the black and Asian community for something to be done to stop racist…
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Lynn Walsh: Eine Periode der Depression
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant International Review, Nr. 53, September-Oktober 1993 S. 19-25] Ist die Weltwirtschaft nur in einer weiteren zyklischen Rezession? Oder in einer langfristigen Periode der Depression? Lynn Walsh untersucht die Argumente. Die Jahreszeiten haben viele Male gewechselt, seit Clinton, Major und andere führende kapitalistische Politiker*innen erstmals auf „grüne Triebe der…
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Peter Taaffe: A Life on the Right
(Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews The Time of My Life, the autobiography of Denis Healey, for decades a key figure on the Labour right. Denis Healey has occupied a central position within the right-wing of the Labour Party at critical times in its evolution over the last 45 years or…
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Peter Taaffe: Bosnia’s Killing Fields
(Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, 2-7) Should the labour movement back military intervention? Or sanctions against Serbia? Peter Taaffe examines the Bosnian nightmare. The Bosnian crisis is now at a turning point. The harrowing accounts of mutilated children in Srebrenica, the photographs of injured soldiers like scenes from the first world war, combined…
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Peter Taaffe: The Need for Words
(Militant International Review, No. 53, September-October 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews two books providing a fascinating insight into the voice, its relationship to personality and ultimately of society the dhé (emphatic) .demons. adj. called the definite article, used to denote a particular person or thing need néd, n. want of something which one cannot do without;…
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6th World Congress of the CWI: Racism, Fascism and the Future for Reaction
[First draft written in November 1993, presented by the International Secretariat, voted in December 1993] An important feature of the present world situation is a certain growth of the forces of reaction: racism, fascist and neo-fascist organisations in Europe; vicious ethnic and national conflict in the former Stalinist states of Eastern Europe and the former…