Schlagwort: Peter Taaffe
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Peter Taaffe: Trade union Unity and the Future of the Portuguese Revolution
(Militant No. 243, 14 February 1975 p. 3) By Peter Taaffe A reader has written to Militant asking what position we take towards the recent introduction of the “trade union unity” law in Portugal. The Provisional Government – backed by the “Communist” Party – has ratified the law which imposes one trade union federation for…
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Peter Taaffe: Tribune and the struggle for socialism – policies do not break with capitalism
(Militant No. 255, 9 May 1975, p. 4-5) The two elections in 1974 marked a decisive turning point in the post-war development of the Labour movement in Britain. In the preceding four years under the whip of Heath’s ‘counter-revolution’ against their rights and conditions the working class had been enormously radicalised. This was reflected in…
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Peter Taaffe: National Turmoil Erupts in USSR
(Militant International Review, No. 42, Winter 1990) Gorbachev’s reforms have unleashed the outrage of the national minorities within the USSR, suppressed for decades by Stalinism. But as Peter Taaffe explains, Gorbachev’s solutions to the ‘national problem’ are a million miles removed from Lenin’s. „There has not been a single quiet day in the last one…
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Peter Taaffe: Memoirs of Stalin’s Spymaster – The Trotskyists Were Right
(Militant No. 400, 7 April 1978, p. 8-9) Reviewed by Peter Taaffe – Part 1 When “The Great Game” was first published last year it was widely commented on in the capitalist press. To read the reviews would be to suppose that the chief merit of this book lay in the account of the author,…
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Peter Taaffe: “Militant” and the Communist Party
(Militant No. 447, 16 March 1979 p. 11) The communist Party has invited a number of different left-wing newspapers to contribute articles for their fortnightly magazine ‘Comment’. The following article from Peter Taaffe, editor of ‘Militant’, appears in the current issue of ‘Comment’. ‘Militant’ welcomes this opportunity to outline our differences with the CP and…
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Peter Taaffe: Memoirs of Stalin’s Master Spy – The myth of the great war leader exploded
(Militant 401, 14 April 1978, p. 8-9) In the second part of his review of ‘The Great Game’, Peter Taaffe covers Trepper’s recollections of the great purge of ‘Old Bolsheviks’ and Stalin’s disastrous military policies at the beginning of the second world war. In ‘The Great Game’, Leopold Trepper provides a graphic picture of how…
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Peter Taaffe: The Mods and Rockers Problem
(Militant No. 1, October 1964 p. 7, of course we wouldn’t use the N-word today) Peter TaaffeWalton YS If the king of Prussia once said of his peasant army, “We are lost once the bayonets begin to think,” then the capitalist class and their mouthpieces in the press must repeat this a thousand times in…
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Peter Taaffe: Can Labour win?
(Militant International Review, No. 39, Spring 1989) By Peter Taaffe The guiding principle of Labour’s leadership has been ‚NUNGE‘, (Nothing Until after the Next General Election). Indeed it has at times been their only ‚principle‘! Any attempt to go outside the prescribed narrow parliamentary boundaries has evoked the wrath of Labour’s front bench. In the…
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Peter Taaffe: The church and the struggle for liberation
(Militant No. 449, 30 March 1979, p. 6) The second of three articles In last week’s ‘Militant’, Peter Taaffe analysed the role of Islam in the Iranian revolution. In the second article he looks at developments within the Catholic Church in Latin America over the past two decades. The ‘Economist’ recently pointed out that “Since…