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Schlagwort: Lynn Walsh

  • Lynn Walsh: Iran – The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty

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    [Militant No. 440, 26th January 1979, p. 10] When the Shah finally left the country last week, hundreds of thousands of jubilant demonstrators filled the streets to celebrate his departure. Portraits and statues – those which remained – were torn down and destroyed. The remnants of the Peacock Throne crumbled like a mummy exposed to…

  • Lynn Walsh: Greece: The Meaning of the Coup

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    [Militant No. 185, 14th December 1973, p. 3 and 6] By Lynn Walsh (Ardwick Labour Party) With the latest coup, carried through with the much-practiced brutal efficiency of the Greek military, the political wheel has turned full circle. Many bones hove been broken in the process, but the country has not been token forward on…

  • Lynn Walsh: Rural reaction

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    [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!

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    [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’

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    [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

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    [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

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    [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

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    [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

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    [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

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    [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…