Schlagwort: capitalist restauration

  • 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…

  • Tony Saunois: Castro & the Pope

    [Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 20-21] The recent tour of Cuba by Juan Paul II was the first visit by a Pope to the island since the revolution of 1959. It was, argues Tony Saunois, more political than theological in its content and objectives. The threat to the social gains made since the…

  • Peter Taaffe: Russia’s agony

    [Socialism Today, No 28, May 1998, p. 24-28] Peter Taaffe reviews a recently published book, Rebirth of a Nation – an Anatomy of Russia, by the former Financial Times Moscow correspondent, John Lloyd (Michael Joseph Publishing, £20). John Lloyd built a reputation in the 1980s as a perceptive industrial reporter for the Financial Times, particularly…

  • Kevin Simpson: The break-up of Yugoslavia

    [Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 17-20] The Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Branka Magas. Published by Verso, £12-96. Available from World Socialist Books, 3-13 Hepscott Road, London E9 5HB. “Have you ever seen a wedding without meat?” This indifferent response by an Albanian Kosovar miner was given to a journalist asking whether he…

  • Militant International Review: After the cold war

    [Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993, p. 2-7] This is the most disturbed period in world relations since that which followed the Versailles treaty at the end of World War One. The Collapse of the Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has dramatically altered world relations. From 1945 to 1989 the…

  • Elizabeth Clarke: Soviet Union in turmoil

    [Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 42-49] The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution, argues Elizabeth Clarke. Workers‘ patience with the deprivations of the mismanaged planned economy have been exhausted The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution. The…

  • China

    | want to ask about workers’ states. Two questions about China. The first question: I read your material. I read that at your last world congress that the nature of the Chinese state is not so definite, the process is not finished, and your Swedish section, or a majority of your Swedish section, supports the…

  • 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 Working Class Today

    In the 1990s there was a big ideological attack from the bourgeoisie with the claim that the working class no longer existed! This ideological attack was a sign of a real process. Before the process of globalisation began, there was the process of deindustrialisation in many countries. In Milan there used to be ten factories…

  • The World Situation

    Like the majority of Marxists internationally you say there was a change in economics in the mid-1970s. Before, we had a very long period of development of capitalism worldwide, not only in the advanced countries but also the beginning of national liberation movements. But after the mid-1970s a new cycle of capitalism began. The world…