Schlagwort: Peter Taaffe
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Peter Taaffe: The Church and the Mosque – is there a Religious Revival?
(Militant No. 448, 23 March 1979 p. 11 [I think we would today not use the term ‚Islamic church‘]) The first of three articlesBy Peter Taaffe A vast crowd of three million people turned out to greet Ayatollah Khomeini when he returned to Iran. One and a half million people welcomed the Pope when he…
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Peter Taaffe: Liverpool’s struggle-Lessons for the movement
(Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986) In studying and analysing the Liverpool experience all workers can prepare themselves for similar movements in their own areas. There will be many ‚Liverpools‘ throughout Britain, only on a more gigantic scale „By the mid-1980s the Conservatives saw Liverpool as the power base of the Militant Tendency. And…
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Peter Taaffe: USA Today
(Militant International Review, No. 57, August 1994) Militant Labour General Secretary Peter Taaffe, a recent visitor to the US, examines the perspectives for the world’s greatest superpower. ‚The American tradition is based on expectations of rising wealth. Large parts of the population are now faced with the reality of being poorer than their parents or…
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Peter Taaffe: Bureaucrats tremble before workers‘ movement
(Militant International Review, No. 41, Autumn 1989) Peter Taaffe explains how the political revolution against Stalinism in Eastern Europe has begun. The MIR has long predicted that Gorbachev’s attempts at ‚reforms from the top‘ would provoke revolution, political revolution, from below. The mighty strike wave of the Soviet miners in July confirms that analysis. Like…
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Peter Taaffe: Out of the Ghetto
(Militant International Review, No. 47, 1992) Anti-fascist activity in the 1930s. Building a mass Communist Party in London’s East End. Peter Taaffe reviews Joe Jacobs‘ recently republished autobiography Throughout Europe right-wing and neo-fascist organisations seem to be on the march. In France Le Pen’s Front National scored an incredible 38% in recent opinion polls. In…
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Peter Taaffe: Red is the colour of our flag
(Militant International Review, No. 46, Summer 1991) Peter Taaffe reviews the recently published autobiography of Oskar Hippe, a fighter in the German workers‘ movement for over six years. Oskar Hippe joined the pre-first world war German Social Democratic Party (SPD) under the influence of his radical elder brother. He swung over in support of Rosa…