Schlagwort: Militant International Review
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Bob Labi: Iran: New stage in revolution
[Militant International Review, No. 17, Autumn 1979, p. 17-21] The rapid development of the Iranian revolution since the February 10/11 insurrection has demonstrated clearly that the Iranian masses saw the Shah’s overthrow as a green light for deepening their struggle for a better life. The past few months have shown how the tremendous pressure of…
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Labor Militant: Rising anger behind US election results
[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 24-25] Last November’s US elections saw the Republicans win both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. Did this mark a big shift to the right in US politics? The following is an edited statement by supporters of US Labor Militant. The Republicans went…
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John Bulaitis: Wagnermania
[Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 30-32] Following Channel Four’s series on the composer Richard Wagner, John Bulaitis looks at the life and art of this controversial 19th century figure. The centrepiece of Channel Four’s Wagnermania series was an interesting documentary entitled Wagner vs Wagner featuring the composer’s great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner. The documentary…
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Tony Saunois: Mexican crisis, Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas
[Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 18-21] Sixty thousand Mexican troops, together with US and Argentinian ‘advisors’, are besieging the guerrillas of the Zapatista National Liberation Front (EZLN) in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Unable to hunt down and crush the guerrillas, they are wrecking the peasants’ villages, destroying their tools and poisoning…
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Lynn Walsh: Trotzki rehabilitieren
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Militant International Review, Nr. 44, Sommer 1990] Die offene Neubewertung Trotzkis in der UdSSR, argumentiert Lynn Walsh, ist der Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Aufstiegs des Stalinismus – und zur Formulierung eines Programms, das der Arbeiter*innenklasse einen Ausweg aus der bürokratischen Sackgasse bieten kann. „Die Wiederherstellung der historischen und juristischen…
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Lynn Walsh: Rehabilitating Trotsky
[Militant International Review, No 44, Summer 1990, p. 6-11] The open re-appraisal of Trotsky in the USSR, argues Lynn Walsh, is the key to understanding the rise of Stalinism – and to formulating a programme which can provide the working class with a way out of the bureaucratic impasse. “Restoring historical and judicial justice is…
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Tony Saunois: Latin America’s Tequila Hangover
[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 26-28] As the devastating debt crisis of the 1980s receded, Latin America once again showed signs of economic growth – there was even talk of Latin America joining the ‚first world‘ of advanced countries. But the Mexican financial crash has revealed how brittle these claims were. Tony…