Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Labour Party

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour’s disastrous coalition

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    (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…

  • Peter Taaffe: Mirror refuses reply

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    (Militant No. 577, 13 November 1981, p. 3) In a prominent editorial on 26th October, the Daily Mirror, so-called ‘Labour’ paper, published a vicious editorial against the Militant, suggesting that the Left was “costing the party the votes of thousands of its ordinary, decent supporters”, and calling for the expulsion of Militant supporters. In the…

  • Peter Taaffe: Cecil King Diary 1970-74

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    (Militant No. 286, 9 January 1976, p. 5) What the ruling-class really think When Cecil King published his diaries in 1972 – covering the period of 1965 to 1970 – it caused uproar [see Militant nos. 132 and 141]. The capitalists were outraged that their innermost thoughts, their fears and hatred of the Labour Movement…

  • Peter Taaffe: Can Labour win?

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    (Militant International Review, No. 39, Spring 1989) By Peter Taaffe The guiding principle of Labour’s leadership has been ‚NUNGE‘, (Nothing Until after the Next General Election). Indeed it has at times been their only ‚principle‘! Any attempt to go outside the prescribed narrow parliamentary boundaries has evoked the wrath of Labour’s front bench. In the…

  • Peter Taaffe: Liverpool’s struggle-Lessons for the movement

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    (Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986) In studying and analysing the Liverpool experience all workers can prepare themselves for similar movements in their own areas. There will be many ‚Liverpools‘ throughout Britain, only on a more gigantic scale „By the mid-1980s the Conservatives saw Liverpool as the power base of the Militant Tendency. And…

  • Peter Taaffe: Blair’s First Month

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    (Socialism Today No 19, June 1997) The Blair government ‘hit the ground running’ with a raft of early measures, giving the impression of change. But, argues Peter Taaffe, impressions of change will not satisfy the aroused expectations reflected in Labour’s election landslide. The 1 May British general election has opened up a new and decisive…

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour Left: Heading For A Split?

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    (Socialism Today No 25, February 1998) ‚Our consciences say we must split with Tory Blair‘, was the headline over an article by Ken Coates and Hugh Kerr, MEPs, in the Observer (28 December). This defiance of the Labour leaders by an estimated six left MEPs comes after the success of the left at Labour’s October…

  • Peter Taaffe: Tories – Is The Party Over?

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    (Socialism Today No 13, November 1996) Will the Tory party split after the next election? For almost a decade the fault lines among Tories have been deepening. The uneasy coalition which makes up the modern Tory party was held together by factors which have already disappeared, or are rapidly disappearing, says Peter Taaffe. The British…

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour and Socialism

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    (Socialism Today No 12, October 1996) When Labour backbencher Kim Howells called for the ditching of the word ’socialism‘, Tony Blair went onto BBC Radio’s Today programme to back him. Peter Taaffe asks whether Labour still has anything to do with the ‚S‘ word. Just under a year ago we argued „that the Labour Party…

  • Lyon Walsh: Nur die Arbeiter*innenbewegung kann einen Weltkrieg verhindern

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    (eigene Übersetzung des englischen Texts in Militant Nr. 505, 30. Mai 1980, S. 8 und 9) Militärische Rivalität und Krieg – potentiell die Gefahr eines total zerstörerischen Weltkrieges – ist in der kapitalistischen Gesellschaft verwurzelt. Wie könnte es anders sein in einem System, das auf Klassenausbeutung und Unterdrückung beruht, mit unversöhnlichen nationalen Rivalitäten zwischen den…