Schlagwort: Ireland
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Paul Jones and Peter Taaffe: Crisis in Northern Ireland – The Question in Perspective
(Militant International Review, No. 3, Autumn 1970, p. 19-33) by Paul Jones and Peter Taaffe The stormy events in Northern Ireland, involving the mass uprising of the Catholic population of Derry and Belfast a little over a year ago, the deployment of 11,000 British troops, the daily street fighting, armed clashes and bomb incidents, together…
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Peter Taaffe: Labour’s disastrous coalition
(Militant No. 694, 6 April 1984, p. 10) By Peter Taaffe The capitalist media now has a conscious policy of playing down workers‘ struggles abroad for fear of encouraging similar movements in Britain. They have ignored the colossal ferment taking place in Southern Ireland, for example, which can exercise an enormous effect on workers‘ struggles…
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Lynn Walsh: 1688 – The myth of the ‘glorious’ revolution
[Militant No. 904, 8th July 1988, p. 8-9] The events of 1688 had a happy ending for the ruling class. Without any real conflict, the dangerous James II was replaced by the admirable William and Mary. The contending factions, Whigs and Tories, were harmoniously united in adopting the Bill of Rights. By Lynn Walsh This…
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Ted Grant: Marxism against Sectarianism
[June 1981, Reprinted in Bulletin of Marxist Studies, Summer 1985. It was wrong to label women’s liberation, black liberation or gay liberation as middle class or liberal issues. Not the issues, but the approach of several groups is middle class or liberal] In his document submitted to the International Forum, comrade GM raises a number…