Schlagwort: Labour Party
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Peter Taaffe: Poll tax – Thatcher’s terminal crisis?
(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…
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Peter Taaffe: Prospects for Britain under Major
(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…
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Peter Taaffe: Liverpool – A City That Dared to Fight
(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:…
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Peter Taaffe: A Life on the Right
(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…
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Lynn Walsh: The choice before the Labour Party
[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…
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Peter Taaffe: 1977: A Disaster Year for Workers
(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…
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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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Peter Taaffe: Mirror refuses reply
(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…
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Peter Taaffe: Cecil King Diary 1970-74
(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…