Schlagwort: Militant International Review

  • Lynn Walsh: South Africa – A nation still in waiting

    [Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 22-25] Following its overwhelming victory in the elections of 27 April 1994, the ANC leadership has consolidated its dominant position in the Government of National Unity (GNU) – and is currently basking in the prestige of the world’s most popular president, enjoying the long after-glow of victory.…

  • Peter Taaffe: Which way for American Blacks?

    (Militant International Review, No. 5, January 1972, p. 10-19) By Peter Taaffe The assassination of George Jackson in San Quentin prison in August to be followed three weeks later with the brutal massacre of predominantly black prisoners at Attica Prison, New York, have aroused the anger of the World Labour Movement at the horrifying conditions…

  • Peter Taaffe: British Communist Party in Crisis

    (Militant International Review, No. 15, Autumn 1978, p. 23-32) By Peter Taaffe In the past year the British Communist Party has received unprecedented attention from the mass media. The polemics with the dissident Stalinist wing and its eventual splitting away to form the „New Communist Party“ was extensively reported. This has been followed by the…

  • Peter Taaffe: Bosnia’s Killing Fields

    (Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, 2-7) Should the labour movement back military intervention? Or sanctions against Serbia? Peter Taaffe examines the Bosnian nightmare. The Bosnian crisis is now at a turning point. The harrowing accounts of mutilated children in Srebrenica, the photographs of injured soldiers like scenes from the first world war, combined…

  • Peter Taaffe: The Need for Words

    (Militant International Review, No. 53, September-October 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews two books providing a fascinating insight into the voice, its relationship to personality and ultimately of society the dhé (emphatic) .demons. adj. called the definite article, used to denote a particular person or thing need néd, n. want of something which one cannot do without;…

  • Peter Taaffe: Marxism and the State: Who Really Threatens Democracy

    (Militant International Review, No. 22, June 1982, p. 25-32) By Peter Taaffe “Marxism equals totalitarianism and violence.” This is the persistent theme of the capitalists and their media in their campaign against ‘Militant’. All the notes on the political keyboards, from the ultra-right Daily Mail to the august Times and the alleged ‘Labour’ papers the…

  • Peter Taaffe: National Turmoil Erupts in USSR

    (Militant International Review, No. 42, Winter 1990) Gorbachev’s reforms have unleashed the outrage of the national minorities within the USSR, suppressed for decades by Stalinism. But as Peter Taaffe explains, Gorbachev’s solutions to the ‘national problem’ are a million miles removed from Lenin’s. „There has not been a single quiet day in the last one…

  • Peter Taaffe: Apartheid ends – a new chapter opens

    (Militant International Review, No. 55, January 1994) Militant Labour’s general secretary Peter Taaffe recently visited South Africa. Here he assesses the perspectives ahead. 27 April, the date for South Africa’s election, will see the long nightmare of apartheid finally ended. That hated system, set up in 1948, merely codified and widened the racial segregation which…

  • Peter Taaffe: Can Labour win?

    (Militant International Review, No. 39, Spring 1989) By Peter Taaffe The guiding principle of Labour’s leadership has been ‚NUNGE‘, (Nothing Until after the Next General Election). Indeed it has at times been their only ‚principle‘! Any attempt to go outside the prescribed narrow parliamentary boundaries has evoked the wrath of Labour’s front bench. In the…

  • Peter Taaffe: Liverpool’s struggle-Lessons for the movement

    (Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986) In studying and analysing the Liverpool experience all workers can prepare themselves for similar movements in their own areas. There will be many ‚Liverpools‘ throughout Britain, only on a more gigantic scale „By the mid-1980s the Conservatives saw Liverpool as the power base of the Militant Tendency. And…