Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Imperialism

  • Militant: Iranian Fiasco

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    [Editorial, Militant, No 501, 2 May 1980, p. 2] The abortive attempt to rescue the 50 American hostages from the embassy in Tehran was a desperate measure on the part of Carter. The President himself had earlier said that any such attempt would almost certainly lead to the death of the hostages. Yet clearly, the…

  • Socialism Today: Clinton’s futile barbarism

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    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 2-5] Seizing the opportunity created by the blunders of US imperialism and fighting between rival Kurdish factions, Saddam Hussein has effectively taken back control of northern Iraq. The UN-sponsored ‘safe haven’ is now controlled by Saddam’s new allies, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), led by Barzani. This is…

  • Nancy Taaffe: Loach’s Best?

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    [Socialism Today, No 16, March 1997, p. 30] Nancy Taaffe reviews the latest film by socialist director, Ken Loach. Carla’s song is the latest joint venture between director Ken Loach and writer Paul Lavery. The film tells the story of George (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas) and is primarily concerned with the relationship that…

  • Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 32] Churchill: The End of Glory, by John Charmley. Sceptre, 1995, £9-99. Reviewed by Mike Waddington. This is a truly good read. Although written by a right-wing historian it nevertheless provides a useful antidote to the Vera Lynn school of history and probes some of the less well-publicised…

  • David Cameron: East Africa in turmoil

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    [Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 2-3] The crisis simmering in Zaire for two years has finally come to a head. In 1994, with the victory of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front in neighbouring Rwanda, the ex-Rwandan army and Interahamwe militias, who were responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis, fled…

  • Niall Mulholland: Kosovo rising

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    [Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 4-5] The Serbian army onslaught in the area of Srbica [Skenderaj], central Kosovo [Kosova], left over 80 Kosovo Albanians dead and villages in ruins. Civilians, including young children, were mercilessly shot down and whole so-called ‘terrorist’ families executed. Up to 45,000 Serbian troops now occupy Kosovo, with armoured…

  • Socialism Today: US/Iraq: War threat averted – for now

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    [Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 14-18] The planned US air strike against Iraq was narrowly averted by the agreement reached by UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan, in Baghdad on 24 February. Thankfully, many thousands of Iraqi men, women and children, already suffering from the devastating effects of sanctions, escaped more death, injury and…

  • Socialism Today: No Way Back to New World Order

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    [Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 2-4] It now appears most probable, as we go to press, that the US will soon unleash a prolonged air strike against Iraq. The Clinton administration has delivered an ultimatum to Saddam, based on a maximum demand for unlimited scope for the UN weapons inspectors, which the Iraqi…

  • James Long: Africa: The continent capitalism abandoned

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    [Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 20-24] In the 1950s, with African nationalism at its height, the buzzword in Africa was „development‘. Since that dream of growing prosperity, Africa, despite its immense natural wealth, has become a continent beset by famine, drought, civil war and brutal dictatorships. What went wrong? James Long reports. „Africa’s…

  • Dave Cotterill: Clinton’s Haitian gamble

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    [Militant International Review, No. 59, October-November 1994, p. 2-6] With Aristide’s return the problems facing the US invasion force have only just begun. Dave Cotterill writes. The joyous popular welcome to the US forces who landed in Haiti turned sour in less than a fortnight. When US marines stood by while the police and armed…