Schlagwort: Imperialism

  • Lynn Walsh: Zaire – Why France sent the Foreign Legion

    [Militant, No. 409, 9th June 1978, p. 10-11] In the past, the ruling classes of Europe have boasted of their “civilising” role in Africa, and of how they granted “emergent nations” their independence when “the time was ripe”. Events in Zaire, however, reveal just how far direct colonial domination was replaced by indirect exploitation –…

  • International Socialist: War and Peace

    [Editorial, The International Socialist. A Journal of Labour Opinion, Vol. 1, no. 6 Sept.-Oct. 1953, p. 2-6] Far more than at any other period in history the problem of war and of peace, looms large in the thinking of all sections of mass opinion, particularly the Labour Movement. Never in history in “peace” time even…