Schlagwort: German unification
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Ireland and the National Question
What about the example of Ireland? There is the situation where 26 counties are in one state following the compromise of the 1920s and six are in Northern Ireland. Only in two are the Protestants a majority. No, in Northern Ireland there are six counties and in 1969 two thirds of the population in those…
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Lynn Walsh: German unification: capitalism triumphant?
[Militant International Review, No 43, Spring 1990, p. 14-22] Lynn Walsh argues that, in the absence of a clear alternative, the collapse of East Germany’s Stalinist regime, combined with the overwhelming impression of prosperity in West Germany, undermined the movement towards the political revolution begun by last years mass demonstrations. What are the prospects now?…