Schlagwort: Bob Labi

  • Bob Labi: Iran: Die Zukunft liegt in den Händen der internationalen Arbeiter*innenklasse

    [Eigene Übersetzung des Leserbriefs, The Militant, Nr. 440, 26. Januar 1979, S. 12] Genoss*innen Es kann keinen Zweifel daran geben, dass die großartige Bewegung der iranischen Arbeiter*innen alle herrschenden Klassen und Eliten weltweit überrascht und entsetzt hat. In weniger als einem Jahr wurde der scheinbar stabile und sichere Schah so gut wie vollständig von seinem…

  • Bob Labi: Iran: Neue Etappe in der Revolution

    [eigene ältere Übersetzung, Militant International Review, Nr. 17, Herbst 1979, S. 17-21] Die schnelle Entwicklung der iranischen Revolution seit dem Aufstand von 10./11. Februar hat klar gezeigt, dass die iranischen Massen den Sturz des Schah als Grünes Licht für die Vertiefung ihres Kampfes für ein besseres Leben sehen. Die letzten paar Monate haben gezeigt, wie…

  • Bob Labi: Iran: New stage in revolution

    [Militant International Review, No. 17, Autumn 1979, p. 17-21] The rapid development of the Iranian revolution since the February 10/11 insurrection has demonstrated clearly that the Iranian masses saw the Shah’s overthrow as a green light for deepening their struggle for a better life. The past few months have shown how the tremendous pressure of…

  • James Long: Challenges facing the European Left

    [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…

  • James Long: Africa: The continent capitalism abandoned

    [Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 20-24] In the 1950s, with African nationalism at its height, the buzzword in Africa was „development‘. Since that dream of growing prosperity, Africa, despite its immense natural wealth, has become a continent beset by famine, drought, civil war and brutal dictatorships. What went wrong? James Long reports. „Africa’s…

  • Russia, Eastern Europe and State Capitalism

    On the question of Eastern Europe, what was the process of the counter-revolution and why was there not a serious revolutionary movement of the Russian working class? We have written a lot of material on this. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was one of the greatest setbacks for the working class…

  • The Permanent Revolution Today

    You speak about the new politics of imperialism, the national and ethnic problems, the question of democratic rights, the problems of the struggle for socialism in different countries, including semi-colonial countries. The last development of the theory of the permanent revolution was at the end of the 1920s in the polemics with the Comintern. But…

  • Ireland and the National Question

    What about the example of Ireland? There is the situation where 26 counties are in one state following the compromise of the 1920s and six are in Northern Ireland. Only in two are the Protestants a majority. No, in Northern Ireland there are six counties and in 1969 two thirds of the population in those…

  • Preface and Acknowledgements

    This book arose from a request to the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) by an Italian publishing collective ,Giovane Talpa’ for information about our ideas and policies with a view to publishing a book in Italy outlining the policies of the CWI. As well as supplying documents and newspapers of the CWI and its…

  • Militant: Militant Gives Opponent a Hearing

    [Militant No. 342, 11th February 1977] ‘Militant’ 335 [17 December 1976] carried a letter from Ian Findlay, National Education Officer of the Young Communist League, chiding us for not producing a reply to Monty Johnstone’s “Trotsky and World Revolution”, published in ‘Cogito’ as the second part of a “major critique” of the ideas and activities…