Schlagwort: Militant International Review
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Dave Cotterill: Clinton’s Haitian gamble
[Militant International Review, No. 59, October-November 1994, p. 2-6] With Aristide’s return the problems facing the US invasion force have only just begun. Dave Cotterill writes. The joyous popular welcome to the US forces who landed in Haiti turned sour in less than a fortnight. When US marines stood by while the police and armed…
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Martin Cock: Capitalism’s lost continent
[Militant International Review, No. 58, August 1994, p. 8-12] The Rwandan horror, argues Martin Cock, is a symptom of a wider African crisis. Within the space of a few horrific months, the image of Rwanda has changed from Gorillas in the Mist to blood-letting, massacres and tribalism. Up to 500,000 people have been killed since…
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Kevin Simpson: The break-up of Yugoslavia
[Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 17-20] The Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Branka Magas. Published by Verso, £12-96. Available from World Socialist Books, 3-13 Hepscott Road, London E9 5HB. “Have you ever seen a wedding without meat?” This indifferent response by an Albanian Kosovar miner was given to a journalist asking whether he…
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Nick Wrack:Resisting the Euro-right
[Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 2-7] How far can reaction go? Nick Wrack looks at the rise of the European far-right. The recent growth of far-right and neo Nazi groups across Europe, the increased votes for these organisations and especially the horrendous increase in racist attacks and murders, raises a series of…
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Margaret Creear: An unnatural system
[Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, p. 19-25] What are the causes of today’s social problems? Margaret Creear examines the ’nature or nurture‘ debate. The murder of Jamie Bulger in Bootle became the occasion for a national offensive by the Tories, and academics linked two them. to put the blame for violence, juvenile crime.…
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Militant International Review: After the cold war
[Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993, p. 2-7] This is the most disturbed period in world relations since that which followed the Versailles treaty at the end of World War One. The Collapse of the Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has dramatically altered world relations. From 1945 to 1989 the…
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Kevin Simpson: The Balkans at war
[Militant International Review, No. 49, Autumn 1992, p. 12-19] Why has civil war exploded into life in a region where national and ethnic tensions had apparently been reduced for over forty years? Kevin Simpson examines the Balkan crisis. Dubrovnik, Split, Sarajevo … names that before 1989 were only mentioned in the media as picturesque resorts,…
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Militant International Review: Europe unravels
[Militant International Review, No. 49, Autumn 1992, p. 2-5] The tumultuous events of recent weeks in western Europe will impact on political and economic developments across the globe. They are an important turning point in world perspectives The shattering of the exchange rate mechanism, and the subsequent events surrounding this, represent a major defeat for…
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Sam Lewenstein: Peace Settlement – Or preparing for a new war?
[Militant International Review, No. 48, Summer 1992, p. 17-23] Sam Lewenstein looks at the prospects for the Middle East peace talks. The beginning of the Middle East peace talks took place in a blaze of world-wide media coverage. For the first time sworn enemies sat across negotiating tables. Hopes were raised for a final end…
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Elizabeth Clarke: Soviet Union in turmoil
[Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 42-49] The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution, argues Elizabeth Clarke. Workers‘ patience with the deprivations of the mismanaged planned economy have been exhausted The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution. The…