Schlagwort: Class struggle
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Hannah Sell: Fighting for a promised land
[Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 25-29] Thirty years ago this April Martin Luther King was assassinated as he demonstrated in support of a sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee. His death sparked riots in over 100 cities across America. Hannah Sell looks at life and ideas of the civil rights leader who inspired…
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Committee for a Workers‘ International: International Women’s Day
[Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 26-30] On 8 March 1857, in New York, the first mass demonstration of women workers took place in revolt against abysmal pay and working conditions, a date which has been commemorated since as International Women’s Day. Over 140 years on, real economic and social advances have been made…
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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…
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Margaret Creear: Women in Revolt
[Militant International Review, No 28, Winter 1985, p. 4-8] For Marxists, the movement of the miners’ wives and the many thousands of other women who have supported the miners in this dispute, is a welcome continuation on a higher level of the upsurge of militancy amongst working class women in recent years. It underlines the…
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Lynn Walsh: Franco – Butcher of Spanish Workers
[Militant, No. 282, 5th December 1975, p. 4-5 Francisco Franco, Generalissimo and self-styled ‘Caudillo’, will go down in history as the butcher of the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39 and the dictator who imposed over 30 years of totalitarian rule on the Spanish people. As leader of the Nationalist revolt against the Popular Front Government, he…