Schlagwort: Revolution
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Lynn Walsh: Iran: Peacock Throne Crumbling
[Militant No. 436, 15 December 1978] Last weekend the whole of Iran was paralysed by massive demonstrations as millions and millions of people took to the streets demanding an end to the Shah’s dictatorship. On Sunday, a million people flooded the streets of Tehran. Next day, even more came out. The army, incapable of damming…
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Lynn Walsh: Iran – Shah’s Overthrow Just the Beginning
[Militant No. 437, 5th January 1979, p. 1 and 16] Time and time again in the last few weeks over a quarter of Tehran’s 4½ million population have taken to the streets demanding the Shah’s downfall. Events in Iran have acquired a revolutionary momentum of their own. Day after day, in defiance of martial law,…
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Lynn Walsh: What is happening in Ethiopia?
[Militant No. 395 – 3rd March 1978, p. 10] In the last few weeks the Ethiopian regime has begun a massive counter-offensive against Somali-backed forces in Ogaden, the region of Ethiopia claimed by Somalia. From all accounts, vast quantities of Russian arms have been air-lifted in and the Ethiopian army has been stiffened with about…
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Jim Chrystie: Nicaragua: Somoza goes – the struggle continues
[Militant, 27 July 1979] „He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.“ President Roosevelt’s words on installing the first Somoza as head of Nicaragua in 1933 came home to roost last week. In the first successful mass uprising in Latin America since Castro came to power twenty years…
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Jim Chrystie: Nicaragua: Somoza geht – der Kampf geht weiter
[Eigene Übersetzung aus Militant, 27 Juli 1979] „Er mag ein Hurensohn sein, aber er ist unser Hurensohn“. Diese Worte von Präsident Roosevelt bei der Einsetzung des ersten Somoza als Staatschef von Nicaragua im Jahr 1933 rächten sich in der vergangenen Woche. In dem ersten erfolgreichen Massenaufstand in Lateinamerika seit der Machtübernahme durch Castro vor zwanzig…