Schlagwort: Peter Taaffe
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Russia, Eastern Europe and State Capitalism
On the question of Eastern Europe, what was the process of the counter-revolution and why was there not a serious revolutionary movement of the Russian working class? We have written a lot of material on this. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was one of the greatest setbacks for the working class…
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The Working Class Today
In the 1990s there was a big ideological attack from the bourgeoisie with the claim that the working class no longer existed! This ideological attack was a sign of a real process. Before the process of globalisation began, there was the process of deindustrialisation in many countries. In Milan there used to be ten factories…
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The Permanent Revolution Today
You speak about the new politics of imperialism, the national and ethnic problems, the question of democratic rights, the problems of the struggle for socialism in different countries, including semi-colonial countries. The last development of the theory of the permanent revolution was at the end of the 1920s in the polemics with the Comintern. But…
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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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The Middle East
What is your general analysis and judgement about the Middle East, about the war in Lebanon and its end with the UN resolution on the use of the French and Italian troops? The third invasion of Lebanon arose over the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers but that, in turn, was really a solidarity action of Hezbollah…
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The World Situation
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…
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9/11 and After
What are the changes in the world situation since the 9/11 attacks? 9/11 was undoubtedly a worldwide turning point. It gave US imperialism, through the presidency of George W Bush, the opportunity to actually implement long-discussed policies of its neo-liberal wing. Their plans go back ten years before 9/11 with the ideas of people like…
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Peter Taaffe: Der Charakter der Gewerkschaften
[Eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes, März 2019] Trotzki kommentierte in den 1930er Jahren nach der Niederlage der spanischen Revolution, wie das ideologische Bewusstsein zurückgeworfen worden war, nicht nur in den Massenorganisationen, sondern sogar in den kleinen „marxistischen“ und „trotzkistischen“ Organisationen. Die internationale Debatte innerhalb des CWI hat leider bereits dieselben Tendenzen offenbart, besonders in den…