Schlagwort: Phil Hearse
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Phil Hearse: Israel-PLO deal in Crisis
[Socialism Today, No 1, September 1995, p. 8-9] In September 1993 PLO leader Yasser Arafat appeared on the White House lawn with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, and US President Clinton, celebrating the Mid-East peace deal. Two years down the line, the accords secretly negotiated in Oslo are in severe crisis, threatening the…
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Phil Hearse: Mexico sunrise?
[Socialism Today, No 21, September 1997, p. 22-24] Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRD suffered its worst electoral defeat in 68 years on 6 July when it lost its overall majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Not only that but the left-centre PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) replaced the right wing PAN (National Action…
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Phil Hearse: The End of Socialism?
[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 14-18] Phil Hearse reviews The Age of Extremes – The Short Twentieth Century, by Eric Hobsbawm, published by Michael Joseph, 1994, price £20. Eric Hobsbawm is Britain’s leading living historian writing from a broadly Marxist perspective. However, as Hobsbawm himself notes, writing about the 20th century is…
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Phil Hearse: Nicaragua: ‚privilege restored‘
[Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 3-4] Alemán’s victory presages a period of sharp struggle over the demands of the dispossessed rich. October’s Nicaraguan presidential elections brought right wing candidate Arnoldo Alemán, the mayor of Managua, to power. Alemán, who leads the Liberal Alliance – a grouping based on the Liberal Party of former…