Schlagwort: National Question
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John Pickard: Iran-Iraq war
[Militant, No 529, 21 November 1980, p. 10-11] Which future for Middle East revolution? The Iran-Iraq war exploded onto the world almost without warning, like a thunderbolt from a clear blue sky. Such is the underlying instability and uncertainty of our time. Only in August the Economist Intelligence Unit concluded that, „For the short term,…
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John Pickard: The Struggle for Kurdish Rights
[Militant, No 495, 21 March 1980, p 10 and No 498, 11 April 1980, p. 10] John Pickard, in the first of a two-part article, looks at oppression of Kurdish people. In a later article, he examines the situation in Iran, and the question of self-determination for the Kurdish nation. „The Kurds have no friends.“…
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Bob Labi: Decisive Action Needed to Carry Through Iranian Revolution
[Militant, No 489, 8 February 1980, p 10] With over 70% of the vote Banisadr has won the Iranian Presidential election. Although using Islamic phrases it was his radical rhetoric which attracted support and enabled him to defeat his more conservative opponents. Banisadr becomes the President of an Iran still deep in crisis. Unemployment is…
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Our correspondent: Iran: Revolt of the Nationalities
[Militant, No 451, 13 April 1979, p 11] The overwhelming vote for the creation of an Islamic Republic in Iran in the recent referendum has not been able to cover the enormous problems facing the country. As explained in last week’s Militant the Islamic Republic means different things to the different classes in Iran. The…
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Our correspondent, recently in Tehran: Iran – How Can the Workers Achieve Power?
[Militant, No 450, 6 April 1979, p 10-11] The two months after the overthrow of the Shah have made it plain that the Iranian masses saw the Pahlavi monarchy’s downfall as only a stage on the road to national and social liberation. As ‚Militant‘ reported last week there has been an enormous ferment in the…
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Ireland and the National Question
What about the example of Ireland? There is the situation where 26 counties are in one state following the compromise of the 1920s and six are in Northern Ireland. Only in two are the Protestants a majority. No, in Northern Ireland there are six counties and in 1969 two thirds of the population in those…
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Paul Jones and Peter Taaffe: Crisis in Northern Ireland – The Question in Perspective
(Militant International Review, No. 3, Autumn 1970, p. 19-33) by Paul Jones and Peter Taaffe The stormy events in Northern Ireland, involving the mass uprising of the Catholic population of Derry and Belfast a little over a year ago, the deployment of 11,000 British troops, the daily street fighting, armed clashes and bomb incidents, together…
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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…