Schlagwort: Lynn Walsh
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Lynn Walsh: Comment – Dodging The Taxing Questions
[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…
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Lynn Walsh: The Chinese Puzzle
[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…
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Lynn Walsh: Spycatcher, Thatcher and the State
[Militant International Review, No 36, Winter 1988, p. 28-35] Thatcher’s prolonged battle to suppress Spycatcher, the memoirs of former MI5 officer Peter Wright, have once again focussed attention on the role of the secret security and intelligence services. Enormous resources have been used to prevent Wright’s disclosures reaching a mass audience. At least £1 million…
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Lynn Walsh: What is happening in Ethiopia?
[Militant No. 395 – 3rd March 1978, p. 10] In the last few weeks the Ethiopian regime has begun a massive counter-offensive against Somali-backed forces in Ogaden, the region of Ethiopia claimed by Somalia. From all accounts, vast quantities of Russian arms have been air-lifted in and the Ethiopian army has been stiffened with about…
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Lynn Walsh: Zaire – Why France sent the Foreign Legion
[Militant, No. 409, 9th June 1978, p. 10-11] In the past, the ruling classes of Europe have boasted of their “civilising” role in Africa, and of how they granted “emergent nations” their independence when “the time was ripe”. Events in Zaire, however, reveal just how far direct colonial domination was replaced by indirect exploitation –…
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Lynn Walsh: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Ogaden – Only International Perspectives can resolve National Antagonisms
[Militant No. 396, 10th March 1978, p. 8-9] There is turmoil in Ethiopia, with the regime of the Dergue fighting a bitter war on two fronts. Last week’s article explained the momentous events in Ethiopia since the fall of Haile Selassie in 1974. Analysing the social character of the new regime, it explained that, on…
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Lynn Walsh: Kann sich Deutschland wiedervereinigen?
[eigene Übersetzung aus Militant Nr. 981, 23. Februar 1990, S. 8-9) Die Ereignisse in Ostdeutschland (der DDR) haben sich mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit entwickelt. Bis vor ein paar Wochen schien Wiedervereinigung eine entfernte Möglichkeit zu sein. Jetzt scheint sie innerhalb weniger Monate durchaus möglich. Im letzten Jahr wurde das stalinistische Regime Honeckers durch eine großartige Bewegung der…