Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: 1996

  • Peter Taaffe: The Real Nelson Mandela

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    (Socialism Today No 5, February 1996) Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela, 1995. Reviewed by Peter Taaffe. This account of Nelson Mandela’s eventful life offers many insights even to those familiar with the main landmarks in the South African struggle. It is impossible not to be moved by the heroic struggle it recounts, the…

  • Peter Taaffe: Tories – Is The Party Over?

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    (Socialism Today No 13, November 1996) Will the Tory party split after the next election? For almost a decade the fault lines among Tories have been deepening. The uneasy coalition which makes up the modern Tory party was held together by factors which have already disappeared, or are rapidly disappearing, says Peter Taaffe. The British…

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour and Socialism

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    (Socialism Today No 12, October 1996) When Labour backbencher Kim Howells called for the ditching of the word ’socialism‘, Tony Blair went onto BBC Radio’s Today programme to back him. Peter Taaffe asks whether Labour still has anything to do with the ‚S‘ word. Just under a year ago we argued „that the Labour Party…

  • Peter Taaffe: Never Done – Women’s Work and the Feminisation of Poverty

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    [Socialism Today, No. 9 June 1996] Peter Taaffe reviews World’s Apart – Women and the Global Economy (1996), a report by Natacha David for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). „In export processing zones throughout the world there is a marked preference for young unmarried women, and it is made very clear to…

  • Lynn Walsh: Herabtröpfeln

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    (Militant, Nr. 1265, 1. März 1996, S. 8 und 9) Die Reichen reicher zu machen, komme den Armen zugute, argumentieren rechte Ökonom*innen. Die Realität beweist etwas anderes, sagt Lynn Walsh. Herabtröpfeln Reich und arm in den USA In den 1930er Jahren verhöhnte Franklin D. Roosevelt – der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten, der die reformistische New-Deal-Politik…

  • Lynn Walsh: Trickle down

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    [Militant, No. 1265, 1 March 1996, p. 8 and 9] Making the rich richer benefits the poor, argue right-wing economists. Reality proves otherwise, says Lynn Walsh. Trickle down Rich and poor in the USA In the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States president who introduced the reformist New Deal policy, in which government money…

  • Lynn Walsh: European capitalist unity in crisis

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    [Socialism Today, No. 6, March 1996] Lynn Walsh examines the growing fears among European capitalist leaders that monetary union won’t happen as planned, throwing their plans for political union into turmoil ‚France prepares for EMU‘ was the front-cover caption for the Economist on 9/15 December. The dramatic colour photo showed a demonstrator pouring petrol onto…