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Schlagwort: book review

  • 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: 1937: Persecution and Defiance

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    [Socialism Today, No. 30, July 1998] Vadim Rogovin’s book, 1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror, has just been published in Britain. Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, reviews this inspirational account of the Trotskyists‘ heroic struggle against Stalin’s attempt to physically annihilate them. One of the purposes of the post-1989 bourgeois ideological offensive is to wipe…

  • Lynn Walsh: Out of the Night – An epic story

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    [Militant No. 919, 28th October 1988, p. 4] Fact, fiction or fantasy? reader asks To mark the republication of Jan Valtin’s classic, Out of the Night, Militant (Issue 916) reprinted a review by Peter Taaffe which first appeared In Militant 291. In response, Mick Jones of Chester wrote criticising this as an „uncritical and romanticised…

  • Lynn Walsh: Another hatchet-job on Militant

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    [Militant 704, 15th June 1984, p. 12] By Lynn Walsh Militant, A new book by Michael Crick of Channel 4 News, will be eagerly seized by Labour’s enemies as ammunition for stepping-up the witch-hunt against the Marxists in the labour movement. Even prior to publication next Monday, excerpts have appeared in the Guardian and The…