Schlagwort: Lynn Walsh
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Lynn Walsh: Oswald Mosley – An aristocratic clown who aimed to be a dictator
[Militant No. 533, 19th December 1980, p. 9] Politically, Sir Oswald Mosley had long been as dead as a dinosaur. However, the creator of the Blackshirts and the British Union of Fascists actually died in exile near Paris on 3 December. In burying this exotic political fossil the capitalist press has been lamenting, in almost…
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Lynn Walsh: Iran – Shah’s Overthrow Just the Beginning
[Militant No. 437, 5th January 1979, p. 1 and 16] Time and time again in the last few weeks over a quarter of Tehran’s 4½ million population have taken to the streets demanding the Shah’s downfall. Events in Iran have acquired a revolutionary momentum of their own. Day after day, in defiance of martial law,…
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Lynn Walsh: Six expelled in Blackburn
[Militant No. 682, 13th January 1984, p. 1] “It was an ugly meeting and a very ugly decision!” This was just one of the angry comments of party activists after Monday’s decision by Blackburn Labour Party to expel six Militant supporters. The comrades defended themselves against a barrage of fabricated stories, smears and outright lies…
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Lynn Walsh: Nearly 40 years late, the French communist party has admitted that Stalin ordered Trotsky’s assassination
[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…
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Lynn Walsh: Franco – Butcher of Spanish Workers
[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…