Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Poll Tax

  • Peter Taaffe: Antwort auf Roger Silverman

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    [Eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Membership Bulletin der Socialist Party, Februar 1997, S. 13–24] 1) Es ist schwer zu verstehen, warum Roger Silverman denkt, dass unsere Namensänderung ein „geeigneter Anlass” sei, um diesen Beitrag zu verfassen. Er versucht, einige Aspekte der Geschichte unserer Organisation zu behandeln, besonders die Position, die Militant in Bezug auf…

  • Peter Taaffe: Reply to Roger Silverman

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    [Socialist Party Membership Bulletin, February 1997, p. 13-24. Unfortunately my text is a bit incomplete, sometimes I had to guess a bit, most of all in para 76] 1) It is difficult to understand why Roger Silverman considers that our name change is „an appropriate point“ to make this contribution. He attempts to deal with…

  • History – Militant and the CWI

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    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.…

  • Peter Taaffe: Poll tax – Thatcher’s terminal crisis?

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    (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…

  • Peter Taaffe: After Thatcher

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    (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…