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Schlagwort: Lynn Walsh

  • Lynn Walsh: Nearly 40 years late, the French communist party has admitted that Stalin ordered Trotsky’s assassination

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    [Militant No. 426, 6th October 1978, p. 8-9] The PCF leadership has touched on a subject which threatens to have explosive repercussions within their own ranks. In mentioning the historical personality of Trotsky, however tentatively, the CP leaders cannot but foster interest among CP-influenced workers, for whom Trotsky’s ideas were previously official anathema. Nearly forty…

  • Lynn Walsh: Franco – Butcher of Spanish Workers

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    [Militant, No. 282, 5th December 1975, p. 4-5 Francisco Franco, Generalissimo and self-styled ‘Caudillo’, will go down in history as the butcher of the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39 and the dictator who imposed over 30 years of totalitarian rule on the Spanish people. As leader of the Nationalist revolt against the Popular Front Government, he…

  • Lynn Walsh: The Nightmare Scenario

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    [Socialism Today, No. 30, July 1998] An obscene and potentially extremely dangerous nuclear arms race has opened up on the south Asian subcontinent. What lies behind this renewed arms race and what are the prospects for a nuclear exchange? Lynn Walsh writes. On 11-13 May, India (after 24 years without nuclear tests) carried out a…

  • Lynn Walsh: Heading For A Slump

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    [Socialism Today, No. 24, December 1997, p. 11-16] The world economic situation of capitalism has changed dramatically in a few weeks. Until recently, capitalist commentators presented glowing reports on its health. But now the illusion of a ’new paradigm‘, a renaissance of ‚free market‘ capitalism, is being shattered, as the world economy heads for a…

  • Lynn Walsh: The Politics of Zippergate

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    [Socialism Today, No. 6, March 1996, p. 16-19] The Chief Executive of the world’s most powerful state is embroiled in a new sleaze crisis – Zippergate. Incredibly, this revolves around the allegation that president Clinton had sex with a 21-year-old former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, and that he and his advisors conspired to get…

  • Lynn Walsh: Albania: Imperialism Intervenes

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    [Socialism Today, No. 18, May 1997, p. 15-16] Berisha’s days are numbered. The mass, armed uprising which began early in March suspended his regime in the air. The president lost control of the South, but the southern rebels, loosely organised by salvation committees, lacked the strength to march on Tirana. There was a deadlock between…

  • Lynn Walsh: European capitalist unity in crisis

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    [Socialism Today, No. 6, March 1996] Lynn Walsh examines the growing fears among European capitalist leaders that monetary union won’t happen as planned, throwing their plans for political union into turmoil ‚France prepares for EMU‘ was the front-cover caption for the Economist on 9/15 December. The dramatic colour photo showed a demonstrator pouring petrol onto…

  • Lynn Walsh: Comment – Dodging The Taxing Questions

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    [Militant International Review, No 34, Spring 1987, p. 15-17] Prologue: A costly trip Last Summer, Labour’s deputy leader, Roy Hattersley, addressed a select covey of bankers and financiers at New York’s plush Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The trip was paid for by city stockbrokers, Samuel Montague (a subsidiary of Midland Bank). The aim, according to the…

  • Lynn Walsh: Tigers Fight Back

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    [Socialism Today, No. 16, March 1997, p. 7] Workers in the unregulated, low-wage industries of the Asian Tigers are beginning to fight back. Alarm bells began to ring in the boardrooms of the big Japanese and other multi-nationals at the end of last year, when enraged workers at the Sanyo Universal Electric Company in Bangkok…

  • Lynn Walsh: The Chinese Puzzle

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    [Militant International Review, No 56, March 1994, p. 26-32] How can China’s ‘economic miracle’ and since Tiananmen, its apparent political stability, be explained? Lynn Walsh looks at The Chinese Puzzle. China, it seems, is different. Since 1989 the advanced capitalist countries have been experiencing recession and only feeble economic recoveries. Most of the economically underdeveloped…