Schlagwort: Lynn Walsh
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Lynn Walsh: Police-state strategy used against miners
[Militant No. 695, 13th April 1984 p. 7] By Lynn Walsh Up to 8,000 police a day from forty-one out of Britain’s forty-three authorities have been mobilised by the Tory government in the biggest strike-breaking operation since the 1926 general strike. Going far beyond any previous post-war government, Thatcher is deploying the police, para-military fashion,…
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Lynn Walsh: Another hatchet-job on Militant
[Militant 704, 15th June 1984, p. 12] By Lynn Walsh Militant, A new book by Michael Crick of Channel 4 News, will be eagerly seized by Labour’s enemies as ammunition for stepping-up the witch-hunt against the Marxists in the labour movement. Even prior to publication next Monday, excerpts have appeared in the Guardian and The…
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Lynn Walsh: Thatcher at bay
[Militant No. 709, 20th July 1984, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh The miners‘ strike has shattered the illusion of Thatcher’s impregnable majority. Preoccupied with class battle in the coalfields, where they thought they would win a quick and easy victory, the Tories have committed a series of disastrous blunders on other fronts: on Liverpool (forced…
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Lynn Walsh: Newham North East – Infiltrators’ Secret Blueprint
[Militant No. 375, 30th September 1977, p. 5] A secret and very revealing document has come to light. It throws considerable light on the clandestine approach and methods of the outside right-wing elements who have involved themselves in the fight to get Reg Prentice readopted as Newham North East Constituency’s parliamentary candidate. The document takes…
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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: Tory Taxation Policy Only Helps Big Business
[Militant No. 450, 6 April 1979, p. 3] “A Tory government would cut the monstrous burden of taxation!” This will be the refrain from Thatcher, Joseph, Howe and the rest during the campaign. For many workers, now paying painful amounts of income tax out of their hard-earned and far-from-adequate wage packet, such a slogan can…
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Lynn Walsh: 1936/1937 – Lessons of the Popular Front
[Militant No. 315, 30th July 1976, p. 6-7] Forty years ago, on the 18th July 1936, General Franco launched the military revolt which began three years of civil war and drowned the Spanish Revolution in blood. For Europe, the defeat of the Spanish workers and the strengthening of fascism meant a fatal step nearer to…
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Lynn Walsh: 1688 – The myth of the ‘glorious’ revolution
[Militant No. 904, 8th July 1988, p. 8-9] The events of 1688 had a happy ending for the ruling class. Without any real conflict, the dangerous James II was replaced by the admirable William and Mary. The contending factions, Whigs and Tories, were harmoniously united in adopting the Bill of Rights. By Lynn Walsh This…
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Lynn Walsh: Benn exposes new police riot manual
[Militant No. 760, 2nd August 1985, p. 7] Lynn Walsh Military-style manoeuvres, including with batons and offensive horses charges into crowds, are now a well established part of regular police training. This is confirmed by pages from a new Training Manual which came to light during the recent Sheffield trial of striking miners facing riot…
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Lynn Walsh: Tories Declare War on Workers
[Militant 411 – 23rd June 1978 p. 1 and 16] By Lynn Walsh Mrs Thatcher claims she is maligned. “Labour will try to paint me as a reactionary, implying a sort of early return to the Middle Ages,” she moaned recently. What she really wants, the Tory leader explained, is “to get everyone a capitalist…