Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: 1995

  • Margaret Jones: Selling the System

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    [Socialism Today, No 1, September 1995, p. 24-27] Modern advertising is selling us more than products, says Margaret Jones. It’s also selling us dreams, illusions and insecurities – and the capitalist system. In the war year 1942 social critic Erich Fromm wrote of the callous triviality of radio commercials: a city was bombed, with thousands…

  • Phil Hearse: Israel-PLO deal in Crisis

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    [Socialism Today, No 1, September 1995, p. 8-9] In September 1993 PLO leader Yasser Arafat appeared on the White House lawn with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, and US President Clinton, celebrating the Mid-East peace deal. Two years down the line, the accords secretly negotiated in Oslo are in severe crisis, threatening the…

  • James Long: Challenges facing the European Left

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    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 19-23] Everywhere in Europe workers face difficult conditions in the class struggle. !n future issues MIR will be looking in detail at the left in the major European countries. Here James Long gives an overview of recent European developments which provide the backdrop to the tasks of…

  • Phil Hearse: The End of Socialism?

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    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 14-18] Phil Hearse reviews The Age of Extremes – The Short Twentieth Century, by Eric Hobsbawm, published by Michael Joseph, 1994, price £20. Eric Hobsbawm is Britain’s leading living historian writing from a broadly Marxist perspective. However, as Hobsbawm himself notes, writing about the 20th century is…

  • John Bulaitis: Wagnermania

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    [Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 30-32] Following Channel Four’s series on the composer Richard Wagner, John Bulaitis looks at the life and art of this controversial 19th century figure. The centrepiece of Channel Four’s Wagnermania series was an interesting documentary entitled Wagner vs Wagner featuring the composer’s great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner. The documentary…

  • Tony Saunois: Mexican crisis, Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas

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    [Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 18-21] Sixty thousand Mexican troops, together with US and Argentinian ‘advisors’, are besieging the guerrillas of the Zapatista National Liberation Front (EZLN) in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Unable to hunt down and crush the guerrillas, they are wrecking the peasants’ villages, destroying their tools and poisoning…

  • Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 32] Churchill: The End of Glory, by John Charmley. Sceptre, 1995, £9-99. Reviewed by Mike Waddington. This is a truly good read. Although written by a right-wing historian it nevertheless provides a useful antidote to the Vera Lynn school of history and probes some of the less well-publicised…

  • Tony Cross: Animal Farm revisited

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 30-31] Animal Farm by George Orwell – a 50th anniversary edition. Secker and Warburg, 1995, £14-99. Reviewed by Tony Cross. Farmer Jones is no longer to be found in the Red Lion at Willingdon drowning his sorrows at the expropriation of Manor Farm by his livestock. Expropriations in…

  • Christine Thomas: A blow to the right to choose

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 8] ‘New wave’ US feminist Naomi Wolf has defected to the anti-abortionists’ camp. Although she says that abortion should be legal and is sometimes necessary, she has launched a vitriolic attack on pro-choice supporters. In an article in the US magazine New Republic she condemns those campaigning for…

  • Andrea Enisuoh: The Million Man March

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 7] In one of the biggest demonstrations in the US since Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in 1963, legions of black men converged on Capitol Hill on 16 October. The ‘Million Man March’, called by the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Ben Chavis, the ex-director…