Schlagwort: Labour Party
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Lynn Walsh: No to Bosses Club! Fight for a Workers‘ Europe!
[Militant No. 570, 25 September 1981, p. 12 and 14, as part of a feature dedicated to the Labour Party Conference 1981] By Lynn Walsh With the help of an almost unprecedented press and propaganda campaign, British big business managed to secure a ‚yes‘ vote for EEC entry in the 1975 referendum. But how many…
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Lyon Walsh: Only the Labour Movement can prevent World War
[Militant No. 505, 30 May 1980, p. 8 and 9] Military rivalry and war – potentially the danger of a totally destructive world war – is rooted in capitalist society. How could it be otherwise in a system based on class exploitation and oppression, with irreconcilable national rivalries between the powers and the neo-colonial exploitation…
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Lynn Walsh: A Warning to Labour
[Militant No. 25, April 1967, p. 1 and 3] Pollock, Rhonda West, Nuneaton, Honiton A Warning to Labour Attack Capital to Regain Support The recent by-elections in Rhondda West, Pollock Nuneaton and Honiton have each registered a sharp rejection of the policies of the Labour Government. Neither the Liberals nor the Tories made any significant…
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Lynn Walsh: Right-Wing Rejects – And Labour’s Future
[Militant No. 536, 23rd January 1981, p. 8-9] The Labour Party must campaign to oust the Tories and fight for socialist policies The 24th January will be a crucial day for the Labour Party. By Lynn Walsh The great majority of Labour Party members will be waiting for the Special Conference to write into the…
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Lynn Walsh: Labour right continue attack on party democracy
[Militant No. 471, 21st September 1979, p. 8-9] By Lynn Walsh Shirley Williams recently tried to dismiss the crucial debate on democracy within the Labour Party as “like the crewmen on the Titanic deciding to have a punch-up in the engine room.” Her speech, made to a fringe Fabian society meeting at the TUC in…
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Lynn Walsh: Budget hand-outs: no substitute for socialist policies
[Militant No. 401, 14th April 1978, p. 2] By Lynn Walsh The labour movement will welcome the positive points in Denis Healey’s budget, which have already brought a torrent of criticism and denunciation from the Tories and big business. Most workers will be slightly better off as a result of the tax cuts. Low-income families…
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Lynn Walsh: Extryism
[Militant No. 812, 29th August 1986, p. 2] Defectors from the Labour Party follow a well-known pattern. Robert Kilroy-Silk, who is resigning his Knowsley seat to join BBC Television, follows in the footsteps of a long line of middle-class extryists who have used the parliamentary Labour Party as a vehicle for their careers. The Labour…
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Lynn Walsh: Labour Broadcast the Truth
[Militant No. 386, 16th December 1977, p. 1 and 12] At last! A Labour Party political broadcast has hit the mark. In using brilliant film sequences to connect the National Front with Hitler and Mussolini and the horrors of the concentration camps, the broadcast hammered home the truth. It was in marked contrast to the…