Schlagwort: 1997
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Peter Taaffe: Reply to Roger Silverman
[Socialist Party Membership Bulletin, February 1997, p. 13-24. Unfortunately my text is a bit incomplete, sometimes I had to guess a bit, most of all in para 76] 1) It is difficult to understand why Roger Silverman considers that our name change is „an appropriate point“ to make this contribution. He attempts to deal with…
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Socialism Today: East Asian Market Tremors – End of the Cycle or End of Cycles?
[Socialism Today, No 22, October 1997, p. 2-4] East Asian Market Tremors – End of the Cycle or End of Cycles? All the classic symptoms of an impending economic crisis are visible. Wall Street jitters, volatility on world stock markets. The collapse of Thailand’s speculative boom, followed by helter-skelter devaluations of other South East Asian…
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Margaret Creear: Lesbian and Gay Liberation: Will Labour make a difference?
[Socialism Today, No 20, July-August 1997, p. 17-20] The anti-Tory electoral tide swept into parliament large numbers of MPs from oppressed groups, including high profile successes for gay MPs Stephen Twigg – who defeated Michael Portillo – and Ben Bradshaw, who saw off the homophobic Dr Adrian Rogers, president of the Conservative Family Institute. Margaret…
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Geoff Jones: Do Computers Dream of Chess Tournaments … ?
[Socialism Today, No 19, June 1997, p. 22-24] Deep Blue’s recent victory over World chess champion Gary Kasparov did not represent the triumph of conscious machines over humankind. But then, what is consciousness? Geoff Jones writes. After Deep Blue’s victory, one commentator joked that they wouldn’t accept the computer as intelligent until it appeared on…
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Andrea Enisuoh, Hugo Pierre, Nasima Patel: What Future for Britain’s Black Population
[Socialism Today, No 19, June 1997, p. 18-21] Darcus Howe describes the mood in the black community after 1 May as one not of exhilaration but of ‚a huge sense of relief that the 18 year siege is over‘. Yet days later the New York-based Human Rights Watch described racially-motivated attacks in Britain as having…
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Peter Taaffe: Blair’s Australian model
[Socialism Today, No 17, April 1997, p. 21-24] On his notorious 1995 trip to Rupert Murdoch’s luxurious Hayman Islands retreat, Tony Blair swapped notes with Australian premier Paul Keating. Since then, Keating has been pushed from office in a wave of disillusionment with Labor. Peter Taaffe looks at the lessons of Blair’s Australian model. In…
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Peter Taaffe: Diana Outpouring – Virtual Protest
[Socialism Today, No 22, October 1997, p. 13-17] The death of Princess Diana on 31 August triggered off emotional and unprecedented scenes of public grief and soul-searching throughout Britain and beyond. It was accompanied by the coming out onto the streets of London in particular, but in other cities also, of hundreds of thousands and…
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Lynn Walsh: Eurocrash!
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Socialism Today, Nr. 20, Juli/August 1997, S. 21-28] „Der Euro kommt“, so lautete das Urteil des österreichischen Bundeskanzlers Viktor Klima auf dem Amsterdamer Gipfel im letzten Monat. Aber, so Lynn Walsh, der Euro „geht“ – schnell den Bach hinunter. In Wirklichkeit markierte der Gipfel einen Frontalzusammenstoß zwischen Deutschland, das…
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Lynn Walsh: Aufstand in Albanien
[eigene Übersetzung der Broschüre des Komitees für eine Arbeiter*inneninternationale, 1997] Vorwort Der Originaltext dieser Broschüre wurde am 25. März 1997 fertiggestellt und als Erklärung des Internationalen Sekretariats der CWl herausgegeben. Er wird hier mit geringfügigen Änderungen veröffentlicht, die neue Informationen und jüngste Entwicklungen berücksichtigen. Das neue Nachwort wurde am 14. April 1997 fertiggestellt. Unser Ziel…
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Lynn Walsh: Auf dem Weg zu einem Konjunktureinbruch
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Artikels in Socialism Today, Nr. 24, Dezember 1997, S. 11-16] Die weltwirtschaftliche Lage des Kapitalismus hat sich in ein paar Wochen dramatisch verändert. Bis vor kurzem präsentierten die kapitalistischen Kommentator*innen glühende Berichte über seine Gesundheit. Doch nun wird die Illusion eines „neuen Paradigmas“, einer Renaissance des Kapitalismus der „freien Marktwirtschaft“ zerschlagen,…