Schlagwort: Communist Party
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Peter Taaffe: Greece – After the Election – Only the Workers Movement can Guard Against Reaction
(Militant No. 240, 24 January 1975, p. 4-5) By Peter Taaffe The biggest demonstrations in the history of Greece, the referendum which gave the thumbs down to the monarchy by a margin of more than two to one, the clamour for the former dictators and their accomplices to be punished; this is the situation in…
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Peter Taaffe: Spain in Turmoil
(Militant No. 333, 26 November 1976 p. 6-7) 20th November was the first anniversary of the death of Spain’s blood soaked former dictator Franco. By way of ‘celebration’, and to show that nothing has changed for them under Franco’s royal heir Juan Carlos, eight days earlier at least one and a half million Spanish workers…
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Peter Taaffe: The Cheering has Stopped in India
(Militant No. 359, 10 June 1977, p. 7) By Peter Taaffe (Editor of Militant) “Clenched fists and marching workers are back on the streets of Calcutta, the heart of West Bengal’s industrial belt,” reported Reuters news agency on 24th May. A wave of strikes, sit-ins and demonstrations have swept India as the working class attempts…
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Peter Taaffe: Trade union Unity and the Future of the Portuguese Revolution
(Militant No. 243, 14 February 1975 p. 3) By Peter Taaffe A reader has written to Militant asking what position we take towards the recent introduction of the “trade union unity” law in Portugal. The Provisional Government – backed by the “Communist” Party – has ratified the law which imposes one trade union federation for…
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Peter Taaffe: “Militant” and the Communist Party
(Militant No. 447, 16 March 1979 p. 11) The communist Party has invited a number of different left-wing newspapers to contribute articles for their fortnightly magazine ‘Comment’. The following article from Peter Taaffe, editor of ‘Militant’, appears in the current issue of ‘Comment’. ‘Militant’ welcomes this opportunity to outline our differences with the CP and…
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Peter Taaffe: Liverpool’s struggle-Lessons for the movement
(Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986) In studying and analysing the Liverpool experience all workers can prepare themselves for similar movements in their own areas. There will be many ‚Liverpools‘ throughout Britain, only on a more gigantic scale „By the mid-1980s the Conservatives saw Liverpool as the power base of the Militant Tendency. And…
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Peter Taaffe: Out of the Ghetto
(Militant International Review, No. 47, 1992) Anti-fascist activity in the 1930s. Building a mass Communist Party in London’s East End. Peter Taaffe reviews Joe Jacobs‘ recently republished autobiography Throughout Europe right-wing and neo-fascist organisations seem to be on the march. In France Le Pen’s Front National scored an incredible 38% in recent opinion polls. In…