Schlagwort: Germany
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Nick Wrack:Resisting the Euro-right
[Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 2-7] How far can reaction go? Nick Wrack looks at the rise of the European far-right. The recent growth of far-right and neo Nazi groups across Europe, the increased votes for these organisations and especially the horrendous increase in racist attacks and murders, raises a series of…
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Michael Roberts: The end of the upswing
[Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 32-39] What are the perspectives for the world economy? Michael Roberts explains. At their international summit in July 1990, the finance ministers of the top seven capitalist nations (G7) exuded confidence that the economic boom which began in 1982-3 would continue indefinitely. They were happy to…
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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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Peter Taaffe: Red is the colour of our flag
(Militant International Review, No. 46, Summer 1991) Peter Taaffe reviews the recently published autobiography of Oskar Hippe, a fighter in the German workers‘ movement for over six years. Oskar Hippe joined the pre-first world war German Social Democratic Party (SPD) under the influence of his radical elder brother. He swung over in support of Rosa…
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Lynn Walsh: Postscript [to the new edition of Jan Valtin’s Out of the Night]
[Jan Valtin, Out of the Night, Fortress, London 1988, p. 659-677] Jan Valtin’s Out of the Night was first published in 1941 in the United States, by the Alliance Book Corporation of New York. It immediately became a best seller, and eventually sold over a million copies. The first British edition was published in May…
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Lynn Walsh: Out of the Night – An epic story
[Militant No. 919, 28th October 1988, p. 4] Fact, fiction or fantasy? reader asks To mark the republication of Jan Valtin’s classic, Out of the Night, Militant (Issue 916) reprinted a review by Peter Taaffe which first appeared In Militant 291. In response, Mick Jones of Chester wrote criticising this as an „uncritical and romanticised…
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Ted Grant: National Democratic Revolution or Proletarian Revolution: The Tasks in Germany
[Workers International News, vol. 7 no.1, January-February 1947, p 18-27, the substantial extract published in The Unbroken Thread is here] (Discussion Article) The comrades of the I.K.D. (a section of the German Émigré Trotskyists) have replied to our criticism of their Three Theses in an article entitled Two Balance Sheets published in October 1946 Workers…
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Revolutionary Communist Party: The Programme of the Communist Party of Germany: A Criticism and an Alternative
[Workers International News, Vol. 6. No. 6, April-May 1946, p 185-192] Editorial Note: – The following article was issued recently in the German language by the British RCP. it has been distributed in Germany amongst members of the German Communist Party as a discussion document and an appeal to join forces with the Fourth International.…