Schlagwort: Jeremy Birch
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Jeremy Birch: Third World living standards and the post-war boom. . . ‚An unending nightmare of squalor and destitution‘
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Summer 1986, p. 12-15] During the prolonged world economic upswing of 1950 to 1973 more was produced than in all the centuries of human endeavour combined up until then. This brought rising living standards compared to the inter-war years and virtual full employment to Europe and North America. Based upon…
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Jeremy Birch: Bureaucracy or Workers’ Democracy?
[pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 2-5] The western press’ enthusiastically applauded Gorbachev’s performance at the June 1988 special Communist Party conference. They praised his ‘democratic reforms’, his courage and steadfastness. Many workers and young people in Britain are now asking: Will Gorbachev really clear out bureaucratism, will the Russian workers now be able to enjoy…
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Jeremy Birch: Bürokratie oder Arbeiter*innendemokratie?
[1988, Broschüre „Stalinism in Crisis“ (Stalinismus in der Krise), S. 2-5] Die westliche Presse applaudierte enthusiastisch Gorbatschows Auftritt auf der Sonderparteikonferenz der Kommunistischen Partei im Juni 1988. Sie lobten seine „demokratischen Reformen“, seinen Mut und seine Standhaftigkeit. Viele Arbeiter*innen und junge Menschen in Großbritannien fragen sich jetzt: Wird Gorbatschow wirklich mit dem Bürokratismus aufräumen, werden…