Schlagwort: Militant International Review
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Michael Roberts: The end of the upswing
[Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 32-39] What are the perspectives for the world economy? Michael Roberts explains. At their international summit in July 1990, the finance ministers of the top seven capitalist nations (G7) exuded confidence that the economic boom which began in 1982-3 would continue indefinitely. They were happy to…
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Militant International Review: Crisis in the Gulf
[Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 14-31] We print here an extensive editorial statement, originally drafted in October, which examines the background to the crisis, the economic and political consequences in the region and internationally, and the attitude of Marxists to a possible war. A brief update follows on page thirty. That…
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Michael Roberts: A capitalist new dawn?
[Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990, p. 33-37] The theory of ‘Post-Fordism’ denies that socialism is the next progressive stage in the development of the productive forces. Michael Roberts examines the arguments. The theorists of modern capitalism have latched onto the collapse of Stalinism in Eastern Europe to proclaim the permanent triumph of capitalism.…
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Militant International Review: Why has the slump been delayed?
[Militant International Review, No. 38, Autumn 1988, p. 24-25] Dear Comrades, The editorial of MIR Number 36, Winter 1988, on the world economy said: “While one could not theoretically rule out the possibility of a temporary agreement which would only serve to postpone the slump a year or two, while making it more severe when…
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Jeremy Birch: Third World living standards and the post-war boom. . . ‚An unending nightmare of squalor and destitution‘
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Summer 1986, p. 12-15] During the prolonged world economic upswing of 1950 to 1973 more was produced than in all the centuries of human endeavour combined up until then. This brought rising living standards compared to the inter-war years and virtual full employment to Europe and North America. Based upon…
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Alan Woods: Latin America on the brink
[Militant International Review, No. 24, November 1983, p. 12-26] The ending of the exceptional period of upswing in the world economy from 1950 to 1975, and the beginning of a new period of organic capitalist crisis, has opened up an entirely different situation on a world scale, a fundamental feature of which is the phenomenon…
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John Pickard: U.S.A. Perspectives
[Militant International Review, No 19, Spring 1980, p. 19-24] In the mid-term Congressional elections in November 1978, the last major national elections, two thirds of the registered voters didn’t even bother to take part. That in itself is an indictment of the American political system, a clear expression of the widespread contempt shown to Congress.…
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Andrea Enisuoh: Reverse the fear
[Militant International Review, No 53, September-October 1993, p. 16-18] Andrea Enisuoh asks, what can be done to defend black and Asian communities from racist attacks? The murder in April of Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white thugs produced renewed calls in the black and Asian community for something to be done to stop racist…