Schlagwort: Second World war
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Lynn Walsh: 50 years after D-Day: The World at War
[Militant, No. 1185, 10 June 1994, p 8 and 9] Despite saturation coverage, none of the TV programmes have fully analysed what really lay behind the D-Day landings. Lynn Walsh, editor of Militant International Review, explains: Scoundrels in the theme-park The Tories made a big mistake when they tried to use the D-Day anniversary to…
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Lynn Walsh: Franco – Butcher of Spanish Workers
[Militant, No. 282, 5th December 1975, p. 4-5 Francisco Franco, Generalissimo and self-styled ‘Caudillo’, will go down in history as the butcher of the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39 and the dictator who imposed over 30 years of totalitarian rule on the Spanish people. As leader of the Nationalist revolt against the Popular Front Government, he…
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Peter Taaffe: From bureaucrat to dissident
[Militant International Review, No 28, January 1985, p. 9-15] Peter Taaffe analyses the recently published memoirs of Pyotor Grigorenko. The figure of Grigorenko is familiar to those who followed the so-called „dissident“ movement in Russia in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Because of his determined and heroic opposition to Stalinism he was the only Red…