Schlagwort: Lynn Walsh
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Lynn Walsh: Prentice Defects
[Militant No. 377, 14th October 1977, p. 1 and 2] Goodbye and good riddance! That is the reaction of most Labour Party members to Reg Prentice’s defection to the Tory Party. “If I blame myself for anything,” Prentice told Walden on ‘Weekend World’, “it is that I did not leave the Labour Party earlier.” This…
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Lynn Walsh: Scandal at The Mirror
[Militant No. 782, 24th January 1986, p. 5] By Lynn Walsh Secretive, unscrupulous, undemocratic, just a few of the expletives thrown at Militant in yet another Mirror tirade. But perhaps the hired pen who dutifully bashed out this “comment” (21 January) should have applied them to his boss? Secretive? Who owns Maxwell’s great organ of…
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Lynn Walsh: Trade union rights for police
[Militant No. 571, 3rd October 1981, p. 9] Workers taking industrial action – particularly when organising picketing, a vital trade union right – have time and again come into conflict with the police. With the Tones‘ new anti-trade union legislation, and the threat of worse to come with Norman Tebbit at the Department of Employment,…
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Lynn Walsh: When the Steel Bosses Sabotaged the Law
[Militant No. 489, 8th February 1980, p. 7] By Lynn Walsh Lord Denning’s blatant class ruling against the steel workers has provoked an explosion of anger among trade unionists. The Tories – echoed, unfortunately, by labour and trade union leaders – are again preaching sermons about the „sanctity of the law“, the „impartiality of the…
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Lynn Walsh: Right Wing Revolt in Portugal – Arm Workers Against Reaction
[Militant No. 247, 14th March 1975, p. 1 and 8] Lisbon. Tuesday March 11th 1975 At 12.00 pm today there were attacks by paratroopers and some of the airforce on three barracks in and around Lisbon. The main one was the barracks of the Light Infantry regiment, the key unit supporting the Armed Forces Movement.…
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Lynn Walsh: The Impasse of Argentine Capitalism
[Militant No. 603, 28th May 1982, p. 8-9] By Lynn Walsh Galtieri launched his expedition to seize the Falklands in an attempt to escape from the consequences of Argentina’s profound social crisis. Despite the regime’s dictatorial powers, which have been used to crush trade union rights and imprison and torture the regime’s opponents, the military…
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Lynn Walsh: Afghanistan – Regime is building basis of support
[Militant No. 608, 2nd July 1982, p. 10] By Lynn Walsh Second of two-part article The Russian intervention had enormously reactionary consequences internationally, allowing the US government, Thatcher, and other Western leaders to justify a new spurt in the arms race. The confusion caused among workers throughout the world by Russia’s bureaucratic military invasion in…