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Schlagwort: Peter Taaffe

  • Peter Taaffe: Introduction to ‚Marxism opposes Individual Terrorism‘

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    [Marxism opposes Individual Terrorism, London ²1982, p. 1-8] We are reprinting here three articles on the socialist case against terrorism which are of great relevance today and should be of considerable interest to active members of the labour movement. The first article, “Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism“ by Leon Trotsky, first appeared in Der Kampf…

  • Peter Taaffe: Marxism opposes Individual Terrorism

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    [Militant, No. 278, 7 November 1975, reprinted in ‚Marxism opposes Individual Terrorism‘, London ²1982, p. 19-29] Hardly a day now passes without a political assassination, attempted assassination, kidnapping or bombing taking place somewhere in the world. The Herrema kidnapping in Ireland is only the most recent example of what has become almost a world epidemic.…

  • Peter Taaffe: Antwort auf Roger Silverman

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    [Eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Membership Bulletin der Socialist Party, Februar 1997, S. 13–24] 1) Es ist schwer zu verstehen, warum Roger Silverman denkt, dass unsere Namensänderung ein „geeigneter Anlass” sei, um diesen Beitrag zu verfassen. Er versucht, einige Aspekte der Geschichte unserer Organisation zu behandeln, besonders die Position, die Militant in Bezug auf…

  • Peter Taaffe: Reply to Roger Silverman

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    [Socialist Party Membership Bulletin, February 1997, p. 13-24. Unfortunately my text is a bit incomplete, sometimes I had to guess a bit, most of all in para 76] 1) It is difficult to understand why Roger Silverman considers that our name change is „an appropriate point“ to make this contribution. He attempts to deal with…

  • Peter Taaffe: Blair’s Australian model

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    [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…

  • Peter Taaffe: Diana Outpouring – Virtual Protest

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    [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…

  • Peter Taaffe: Russia’s agony

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    [Socialism Today, No 28, May 1998, p. 24-28] Peter Taaffe reviews a recently published book, Rebirth of a Nation – an Anatomy of Russia, by the former Financial Times Moscow correspondent, John Lloyd (Michael Joseph Publishing, £20). John Lloyd built a reputation in the 1980s as a perceptive industrial reporter for the Financial Times, particularly…

  • Peter Taaffe: Marxism in Today’s World

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    [CWI Publications and Socialist Publications Ltd 2006, First Edition November 2006] Answers on War, Capitalism and Environment The Committee for a Workers’ International Preface and Acknowledgements 1 9/11 and After 2 The World Situation 3 The Middle East 4 Ireland and the National Question 5 The Permanent Revolution Today 6 The Working Class Today 7…

  • History – Militant and the CWI

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    Could you sum up the history, firstly, of Militant and, secondly, of the CWI? What were the major landmarks? Militant did not drop from the sky. We trace our antecedents back to the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain and, of course, to Trotsky’s International Left Opposition. My generation joined in the early 1960s, others later.…

  • China

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    | want to ask about workers’ states. Two questions about China. The first question: I read your material. I read that at your last world congress that the nature of the Chinese state is not so definite, the process is not finished, and your Swedish section, or a majority of your Swedish section, supports the…