Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Imperialism

  • Lynn Walsh: When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia

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    [Militant No. 511, 11th July 1980, p. 8] By Lynn Walsh (review of Andrew Rothstein’s ‘When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia: The Consul Who Rebelled’) The Tories in Britain, and the representatives of capitalism internationally, have whipped up a frenzied propaganda campaign against the Russian invasion in Afghanistan. But in 1917, when the workers and peasants…

  • Lynn Walsh: Iran – The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty

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    [Militant No. 440, 26th January 1979, p. 10] When the Shah finally left the country last week, hundreds of thousands of jubilant demonstrators filled the streets to celebrate his departure. Portraits and statues – those which remained – were torn down and destroyed. The remnants of the Peacock Throne crumbled like a mummy exposed to…

  • Lynn Walsh: US-Russian Relations

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 23-28] The End of the Affair Washington’s love affair with budding Russian capitalism has run into serious complications. Early romantic illusions, stimulated by the Western capitalists’ greed for profits, have gone. Instead of prosperity, the biggest slump in modern times. Instead of a flowering parliamentary democracy, a Bonapartist…

  • Lynn Walsh: Albania: Imperialism Intervenes

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    [Socialism Today, No. 18, May 1997, p. 15-16] Berisha’s days are numbered. The mass, armed uprising which began early in March suspended his regime in the air. The president lost control of the South, but the southern rebels, loosely organised by salvation committees, lacked the strength to march on Tirana. There was a deadlock between…

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

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    [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

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    [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…