Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Neo-liberalism

  • The World Situation

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    Like the majority of Marxists internationally you say there was a change in economics in the mid-1970s. Before, we had a very long period of development of capitalism worldwide, not only in the advanced countries but also the beginning of national liberation movements. But after the mid-1970s a new cycle of capitalism began. The world…

  • Peter Taaffe: Crushing the workers in the Export Processing Zones

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    (Socialism Today No 10, July 1996) Behind the Wire – Anti-Union Repression in the Export Processing Zones. Published by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), 1996. Reviewed by Peter Taaffe. This booklet is a companion report to the ICFTU publication World’s Apart – Women and the Global Economy, reviewed in last month’s issue…

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour and Socialism

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    (Socialism Today No 12, October 1996) When Labour backbencher Kim Howells called for the ditching of the word ’socialism‘, Tony Blair went onto BBC Radio’s Today programme to back him. Peter Taaffe asks whether Labour still has anything to do with the ‚S‘ word. Just under a year ago we argued „that the Labour Party…

  • Lynn Walsh: The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State

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    [Militant No. 1252, 10 November 1995, p. 8 and 9] „Politicians of all hues now agree we can no longer afford the welfare state,“ proclaimed a recent Guardian headline (18 September). The growth of the social security budget is „unsustainable“, claims Peter Lilley, Tory Social Security Secretary. Lynn Walsh looks at – The Rise and…

  • Lynn Walsh: Trickle down

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    [Militant, No. 1265, 1 March 1996, p. 8 and 9] Making the rich richer benefits the poor, argue right-wing economists. Reality proves otherwise, says Lynn Walsh. Trickle down Rich and poor in the USA In the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States president who introduced the reformist New Deal policy, in which government money…

  • Lynn Walsh: Capitalism’s Economic and Political Crisis

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    [Socialism Today, No 32, October 1998, p. 8-15] Russia’s economic collapse at the end of August, one more broken link in the chain of international crisis, marked a qualitative turning-point. Bourgeois strategists were at last forced to confront the stark reality facing them, writes Lynn Walsh Asia, whose inter-regional and external trade makes up a…