Schlagwort: Neo-liberalism
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Tony Saunois: EZLN meeting hits wrong notes
[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 7-8] Thousands of delegates assembled from all over the world in Chiapas this summer to take part in the international conference against neo-liberalism called by Mexico’s Zapatista guerillas (EZLN). The assembly took place at the same time as the leaders of the official Left in Latin America were…
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Phil Hearse: Mexico sunrise?
[Socialism Today, No 21, September 1997, p. 22-24] Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRD suffered its worst electoral defeat in 68 years on 6 July when it lost its overall majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Not only that but the left-centre PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) replaced the right wing PAN (National Action…
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James Long: Challenges facing the European Left
[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 19-23] Everywhere in Europe workers face difficult conditions in the class struggle. !n future issues MIR will be looking in detail at the left in the major European countries. Here James Long gives an overview of recent European developments which provide the backdrop to the tasks of…
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James Long: Africa: The continent capitalism abandoned
[Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 20-24] In the 1950s, with African nationalism at its height, the buzzword in Africa was „development‘. Since that dream of growing prosperity, Africa, despite its immense natural wealth, has become a continent beset by famine, drought, civil war and brutal dictatorships. What went wrong? James Long reports. „Africa’s…
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Margaret Creear: Moral Panic
[Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 10-13] The Dunblane killings, the death of Philip Lawrence, and the high profile exclusions of unruly school students, have all acted as a magnet to politicians to parade their views on the ‚remoralisation‘ of Britain. Unscrupulously tapping into genuine fears to gain votes at the approaching election, argues…
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Tony Saunois: Latin American Left – Mass Struggles, Ideological Crisis
[Socialism Today, No 13, Nov 1996, p. 14-18] The struggles of the ‚popular sectors‘ in Latin America are rapidly growing. But, paradoxically, much of the Latin American left is shifting to the right. Tony Saunois reports. From the Rio Grande in the north, to Tierra del Fuego in the south, Latin America is a continent…
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Robin Clapp: Global Myths
[Socialism Today, No 7, April 1996, p. 15-18] ‚Globalisation‘ is the buzzword of the 1990s. But is the international economy really ‚globalised‘? Have the vast daily movements of capital across national borders swept all before them? Can national governments and the world labour movement do anything to resist the relentless forward march of transnational corporations?…
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Peter Taaffe: Blair’s Australian model
[Socialism Today, No 17, April 1997, p. 21-24] On his notorious 1995 trip to Rupert Murdoch’s luxurious Hayman Islands retreat, Tony Blair swapped notes with Australian premier Paul Keating. Since then, Keating has been pushed from office in a wave of disillusionment with Labor. Peter Taaffe looks at the lessons of Blair’s Australian model. In…
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Peter Taaffe: Diana Outpouring – Virtual Protest
[Socialism Today, No 22, October 1997, p. 13-17] The death of Princess Diana on 31 August triggered off emotional and unprecedented scenes of public grief and soul-searching throughout Britain and beyond. It was accompanied by the coming out onto the streets of London in particular, but in other cities also, of hundreds of thousands and…
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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…