Schlagwort: Lynn Walsh
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Lynn Walsh: Law suit against Militant‘ security of costs‘ ordered
[Militant No. 761, 9th August 1985, p. 4] John Dennis, former Labour Party Student Organiser, is suing Militant over articles (20 April and 25 May 1984) on the 1984 conference of the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS). If Dennis wants to continue his current libel action against Militant then he must deposit £4,000 with…
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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: Local Elections in Clay Cross … Massive Support for Council’s Stand
[Militant, No. 196, 8th March 1974, p. 2] By Lynn Walsh (Manchester Ardwick CLP) Last Saturday Clay Cross Labour councillors, with the help of enthusiastic contingents of helpers from many areas, received a massive vote of confidence for their policy of complete refusal to implement the Housing Finance Act. 10 out of 11 Labour candidates…
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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: Bosses Plan New Attack on Unions
[Militant No. 429, 27th October 1978, p. 1 and 12] By Lynn Walsh The Labour government must drop wage restraint and carry out bold socialist policies to benefit workers. The Ford workers’ action for better pay and conditions having an effect in unexpected quarters. Church of England parsons met in London to discuss how to…
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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…
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Lynn Walsh: ABC Secrets Case – Re-Trial Ordered After Jury Foreman Found to be Ex-SAS Man
[Militant No. 424, 22nd September 1978, p. 2] The “ABC” secrets trial at the Old Bailey was halted by Mr Justice Willis on Monday following the mention on LWT’s ‘Saturday Night People’ programme that one of the jurors was an ex-SAS paratrooper. Judge Willis condemned the mention by Christopher Hitchen of the ‘New Statesman’ of…
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Lynn Walsh: Crown Agents: Expose the Cover Up
[Militant No. 385, 9th December 1977, p. 3] At least £212 million of public money has been poured down the drain. This is the extent of the losses run up by the Crown Agents, most of which will have to be met by the taxpayer. Yet in contrast to the losses made by nationalised industries,…
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Lynn Walsh: BBC censored: No Need to know
[Militant No. 539, 13th February 1981, p. 5] Just occasionally the BBC’s programme-makers investigate a sensitive, secret aspect of the state power. But when they do, they are immediately censored by the powers that be! This is clear from the decision to drop the screening of a special inquiry into the work of the British…
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Lynn Walsh: ‘Smile Tho’ Your Jobs are Going’
[Militant No. 536, 23rd January 1981, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh Smile, Thatcher urged us in her New Year message, and things will soon be getting better. Do the Tories really believe this? Is their “optimism” a cynical con-trick, or are they really self-deluded idiots? Faced with gloomy predictions from all the main economic commentators,…