Schlagwort: Lynn Walsh

  • Lynn Walsh: Rural reaction

    [Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 9-10] Lynn Walsh on the Countryside Alliance, a political reaction dressed up in a populist lament about rural decline. The countryside’s march swamped central London on Sunday, 1 March. The night before, a chain of hilltop beacons rallied support and signalled the alleged threat to Rural England –…

  • Lynn Walsh: Eurocrash!

    [Socialism Today, No 20, July/August 1997, p. 21-28] “The Euro is coming” was the verdict of Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima at last month’s Amsterdam summit. But, says, Lynn Walsh the Euro is ‘going’ – down the drain fast. In reality the summit marked a head-on collision between Germany, which is insisting on strict adherence to…

  • Lynn Walsh: A Bosnian ‘peace’

    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 5] There is a cynical fiction at the heart of the US plan for a political settlement in Bosnia: that Bosnia-Herzegovina will continue as a sovereign entity, with a constitutional structure which will reconcile and balance the interests of Muslims, Croats and Serbs. In reality, there will be…

  • Lynn Walsh: Victory for US unions

    [Socialism Today, No 22, October 1997, p. 22-27] Teamsters Rock UPS Picket lines turned into celebrations on 19 August, when the provisional agreement with UPS was announced. Through determined, united action, 185,000 Teamsters had defeated Big Brown, the Universal Parcel Service of America, Inc. Lynn Walsh reports. “Outside the UPS depot on the West Side…

  • Lynn Walsh: Western Crony Capitalism

    [Socialism Today, No 34, December 1998 – January 1999, p. 2-3] The insolvency and near collapse of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), formerly the premier hedge fund, brought the world financial system to the very edge of meltdown. Only the rapid $3.6bn rescue organised by the Federal Reserve averted catastrophe. While LTCM has been bailed…

  • Lynn Walsh: The meaning of the mid-term elections

    [Socialism Today, No 34, December 1998 – January 1999, p. 16-19] The tactics adopted by the Republicans in the US mid-term elections rebounded on them. Their campaign to turn the elections into a plebiscite on the impeachment of the president was decisively rejected by voters. This has not only strengthened Clinton’s position, but seriously damaged…

  • Lynn Walsh: Capitalism’s Economic and Political Crisis

    [Socialism Today, No 32, October 1998, p. 8-15] Russia’s economic collapse at the end of August, one more broken link in the chain of international crisis, marked a qualitative turning-point. Bourgeois strategists were at last forced to confront the stark reality facing them, writes Lynn Walsh Asia, whose inter-regional and external trade makes up a…

  • Lynn Walsh: US-Russian Relations

    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 23-28] The End of the Affair Washington’s love affair with budding Russian capitalism has run into serious complications. Early romantic illusions, stimulated by the Western capitalists’ greed for profits, have gone. Instead of prosperity, the biggest slump in modern times. Instead of a flowering parliamentary democracy, a Bonapartist…

  • Lynn Walsh: What Will Happen in Labour Britain

    [Socialism Today, No 17, April 1997, p. 11-16] Despite the interchangeability of Tory and New Labour policies, Labour’s likely election victory will open up a new era in British politics, accelerating the re-emergence of mass workers‘ struggles and the revival of socialist ideas. Lynn Walsh writes. By delaying the general election to the last possible…

  • Lynn Walsh: The General Strike: 1926 and Now

    [Militant International Review, No. 11, August 1976, p. 1-12] General strikes are not accidental occurrences, simply the result of mistakes or misunderstandings between leaders. Nor can general strikes be brought about merely by small groups of political activists calling for general-strike action regardless of the time and conditions. A general strike inevitably arises from the…