Schlagwort: Britain
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Andrea Enisuoh: Reverse the fear
[Militant International Review, No 53, September-October 1993, p. 16-18] Andrea Enisuoh asks, what can be done to defend black and Asian communities from racist attacks? The murder in April of Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white thugs produced renewed calls in the black and Asian community for something to be done to stop racist…
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Kevin Fernandes: Black Sections – Constitutional substitute for socialist policies
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 16-17] At the 1985 Labour Party conference a resolution calling for the setting up of black sections in the Party was defeated with 1,169,000 votes in favour and 5,358,000 against. Prior to the conference the Labour Party NEC had set up a “Working Group on positive discrimination“…
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Bob Lee: The Inner cities erupt – what lies ahead for blacks in Britain?
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 14-18] Eighty per cent of blacks who vote support Labour. But this instinctive class solidarity could ultimately give way to despair if the Labour leaders fail to offer a way forward. Last summer’s inner-city upheavals highlighted the plight of the oppressed minorities. They also provided a fresh…
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Peter Taaffe: Poll tax – Thatcher’s terminal crisis?
(Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990, p. 7-13) The poll tax has become a lightning conductor for the accumulated bitterness at eleven years of Thatcherism. Peter Taaffe examines perspectives for Britain. “As Trotskyists the world over scurry for cover, their British comrades are suddenly on the march in the vanguard of the working class…
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Peter Taaffe: A Life on the Right
(Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews The Time of My Life, the autobiography of Denis Healey, for decades a key figure on the Labour right. Denis Healey has occupied a central position within the right-wing of the Labour Party at critical times in its evolution over the last 45 years or…
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Peter Taaffe: British Communist Party in Crisis
(Militant International Review, No. 15, Autumn 1978, p. 23-32) By Peter Taaffe In the past year the British Communist Party has received unprecedented attention from the mass media. The polemics with the dissident Stalinist wing and its eventual splitting away to form the „New Communist Party“ was extensively reported. This has been followed by the…
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Peter Taaffe: Marxism and the State: Who Really Threatens Democracy
(Militant International Review, No. 22, June 1982, p. 25-32) By Peter Taaffe “Marxism equals totalitarianism and violence.” This is the persistent theme of the capitalists and their media in their campaign against ‘Militant’. All the notes on the political keyboards, from the ultra-right Daily Mail to the august Times and the alleged ‘Labour’ papers the…
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Peter Taaffe: 1977: A Disaster Year for Workers
(Militant No. 387, 6 January 1978, p. 6-7) “The average voter has just suffered the biggest fall in his real disposable income for more than 100 years” [‘Economist’, 8th October 1977]. This is a fitting epitaph for 1977. Millions of British workers will not be sorry to see the back of the past year. For…
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Peter Taaffe: Ruling class crime
(Militant No. 755, 28 June 1985, p. 7) There are a lot of hidden swindles within big business which never see the light of day. The Times, the day before the JMB report broke, lifted a little stone to reveal the monstrous rackets of big business in the United States. In America at the moment…
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Peter Taaffe: Cecil King Diary 1970-74
(Militant No. 286, 9 January 1976, p. 5) What the ruling-class really think When Cecil King published his diaries in 1972 – covering the period of 1965 to 1970 – it caused uproar [see Militant nos. 132 and 141]. The capitalists were outraged that their innermost thoughts, their fears and hatred of the Labour Movement…