Schlagwort: Eric Hobsbawm

  • Phil Hearse: The End of Socialism?

    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 14-18] Phil Hearse reviews The Age of Extremes – The Short Twentieth Century, by Eric Hobsbawm, published by Michael Joseph, 1994, price £20. Eric Hobsbawm is Britain’s leading living historian writing from a broadly Marxist perspective. However, as Hobsbawm himself notes, writing about the 20th century is…

  • Peter Taaffe: Can Labour win?

    (Militant International Review, No. 39, Spring 1989) By Peter Taaffe The guiding principle of Labour’s leadership has been ‚NUNGE‘, (Nothing Until after the Next General Election). Indeed it has at times been their only ‚principle‘! Any attempt to go outside the prescribed narrow parliamentary boundaries has evoked the wrath of Labour’s front bench. In the…