Schlagwort: Poll Tax
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Militant-EB-Mehrheit: Schottland: Perspektiven und Aufgaben
[eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes] Diskussionsdokument, erstellt von führenden schottischen Genoss*innen, angenommen von der EB-Mehrheit 1. Die Aufgabe, eine mächtige marxistische Bewegung zu schaffen, die in der Lage ist, die Arbeiter*innenklasse an die Macht zu führen, erfordert klare Perspektiven und eine kohärente Strategie. 2. Seit Jahrzehnten verfolgt die Tendenz die Strategie, eine Basis innerhalb der…
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History – Militant and the CWI
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.…
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Peter Taaffe: Poll tax – Thatcher’s terminal crisis?
(Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990, p. 7-13) The poll tax has become a lightning conductor for the accumulated bitterness at eleven years of Thatcherism. Peter Taaffe examines perspectives for Britain. “As Trotskyists the world over scurry for cover, their British comrades are suddenly on the march in the vanguard of the working class…
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Peter Taaffe: After Thatcher
(Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 3-9) Peter Taaffe analyses the reasons for the fall of Thatcher and looks at the perspectives now „Tory MPs likened each other to rats, vipers and vultures.“ (The Independent, 25 November, 1990.) In the Militant International Review in Spring 1989 we wrote that „the more serious…