Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Labour Party

  • Lynn Walsh: Atomwaffen: Staatsmacht und Prestige

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    [eigene Übersetzung des englischen Artikels in Socialism Today, Nr. 196, März 2016] Die Tory-Regierung drückt die Erneuerung der Trident durch – zu enormen Kosten. Hinter den vorgetäuschten Verteidigungsansprüchen geht es vor allem darum, den Schein Großbritanniens als „Großmacht“ aufrechtzuerhalten. Lynn Walsh berichtet über diese kolossale Verschwendung von Ressourcen. Die Tory-Regierung beabsichtigt, das Trident-Atomraketensystem zu aktualisieren,…

  • Peter Taaffe: The Brutal Face of Toryism Behind the „Liberal“ Mask.

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    (Militant International Review, No. 14, Summer 1978, p. 3-12) By Peter Taaffe Review article of „Inside Right – a study in Conservatism“ by Ian Gilmour. Published by Hutchinson and Co Lid. When it was first published last autumn this book attracted a lot of attention from capitalist commentators. Some hailed it as a definitive answer…

  • Peter Taaffe: „Forward into the ‚Eighties“

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    (Militant International Review, No. 18, Winter 1980, p. 3-11) Peter Taaffe, editor of ‚Militant‘, looks at the current situation in Britain and points the way forward for Labour. The 1970s was a disastrous decade for the British ruling class. In the last ten years they have seen a further decline in their position. From a…

  • Peter Taaffe: Poll tax – Thatcher’s terminal crisis?

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    (Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990, p. 7-13) The poll tax has become a lightning conductor for the accumulated bitterness at eleven years of Thatcherism. Peter Taaffe examines perspectives for Britain. “As Trotskyists the world over scurry for cover, their British comrades are suddenly on the march in the vanguard of the working class…

  • Peter Taaffe: Prospects for Britain under Major

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    (Militant International Review, No. 48, Summer 1992, p. 2-8) The Tories have won a fourth successive victory but, argues Peter Taaffe, Britain’s underlying economic and social malaise continues. „The economic situation in Britain has reached extreme acuteness. Still, the political superstructure of this arch-conservative country extraordinarily lags behind the changes in the economic basis. Before…

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour’s Programme ’82

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    (Militant International Review, No. 23, October 1982) An indictment of capitalism: but we must draw socialist conclusionsBy Peter Taaffe Labour’s programme 1982 will form the basis for most of the debates and discussions at this year’s Labour Party Conference in Blackpool. In his introduction, Ron Haywood, the retiring General Secretary of the Labour Party, tells…

  • Peter Taaffe: Liverpool – A City That Dared to Fight

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    (Militant International Review, No. 36, Winter 1988) An MIR interview with Peter Taaffe, Editor of Militant and co-author, with surcharged Liverpool councillor Tony Mulhearn, of an important new book on the historic struggle of Liverpool council from 1983-87. Liverpool – A City That Dared to Fight MIR: Why write a book on Liverpool Council? PT:…

  • Peter Taaffe: A Life on the Right

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    (Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews The Time of My Life, the autobiography of Denis Healey, for decades a key figure on the Labour right. Denis Healey has occupied a central position within the right-wing of the Labour Party at critical times in its evolution over the last 45 years or…

  • Lynn Walsh: The choice before the Labour Party

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    [Militant International Review, No 27, Autumn 1984, p. 2-9] By Lynn Walsh The outcome of the miners’ strike will be an issue of over-riding importance for this year’s annual Labour Party conference. The preliminary agenda includes over two dozen resolutions on the strike, particularly condemning the brutal tactics being used by the police on Thatcher’s…

  • Peter Taaffe: 1977: A Disaster Year for Workers

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    (Militant No. 387, 6 January 1978, p. 6-7) “The average voter has just suffered the biggest fall in his real disposable income for more than 100 years” [‘Economist’, 8th October 1977]. This is a fitting epitaph for 1977. Millions of British workers will not be sorry to see the back of the past year. For…