Schlagwort: Reformism
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Peter Taaffe: A Life on the Right
(Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993) Peter Taaffe reviews The Time of My Life, the autobiography of Denis Healey, for decades a key figure on the Labour right. Denis Healey has occupied a central position within the right-wing of the Labour Party at critical times in its evolution over the last 45 years or…
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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: “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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Lynn Walsh: A Warning to Labour
[Militant No. 25, April 1967, p. 1 and 3] Pollock, Rhonda West, Nuneaton, Honiton A Warning to Labour Attack Capital to Regain Support The recent by-elections in Rhondda West, Pollock Nuneaton and Honiton have each registered a sharp rejection of the policies of the Labour Government. Neither the Liberals nor the Tories made any significant…
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Lynn Walsh: A Reply to Tribune’s Editor
[Militant 497, 4th April 1980, p. 2] By Lynn Walsh “Tribune” (28th March) published an extraordinary editorial, “Underhill, the Militant Tendency and the fight for democratic socialism,” which demands an answer. While purporting to oppose the right wing’s attempts to launch a witch-hunt against the Militant, the editorial in fact launches into a vitriolic attack…
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Lynn Walsh: Comment – Dodging The Taxing Questions
[Militant International Review, No 34, Spring 1987, p. 15-17] Prologue: A costly trip Last Summer, Labour’s deputy leader, Roy Hattersley, addressed a select covey of bankers and financiers at New York’s plush Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The trip was paid for by city stockbrokers, Samuel Montague (a subsidiary of Midland Bank). The aim, according to the…
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Peter Taaffe: Introduction [to Common Market – No. Socialist Europe – Yes. The Socialist Case]
[Printed in the pamphlet, London, March 1975, p. 1-7] The ‘Socialist Answer to the EEC’ by Ted Grant was written in 1971 on the issue of Britain’s entry into the Common Market. The three years which have elapsed since it was first issued have not rendered this analysis obsolete. On the contrary as the reader…
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9. The Proletariat and its Leadership
[Final Part of the Discussion Documents „World Perspectives“, 25 June 1974] The last six decades have seen the movement of the masses towards revolution in country after country, and continent after continent. It has been a period of revolution and counter-revolution unexampled in history. No other epoch in history can show a like movement of…