Schlagwort: slander
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Peter Taaffe: Marxism and the State: Who Really Threatens Democracy
(Militant International Review, No. 22, June 1982, p. 25-32) By Peter Taaffe “Marxism equals totalitarianism and violence.” This is the persistent theme of the capitalists and their media in their campaign against ‘Militant’. All the notes on the political keyboards, from the ultra-right Daily Mail to the august Times and the alleged ‘Labour’ papers the…
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Peter Taaffe: The Observer Backs its Right-Wing Friends
(Militant, No. 538, 6 February 1981, p. 7) “The Observer” claims to uphold democracy, particularly “freedom of the press”. Yet after a direct attack on ‘Militant’ in its editorial, this champion of “press freedom” has allowed us only a token right of reply, printing our answering letter with crucial points cut out. The deleted parts…
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Peter Taaffe: Mirror refuses reply
(Militant No. 577, 13 November 1981, p. 3) In a prominent editorial on 26th October, the Daily Mirror, so-called ‘Labour’ paper, published a vicious editorial against the Militant, suggesting that the Left was “costing the party the votes of thousands of its ordinary, decent supporters”, and calling for the expulsion of Militant supporters. In the…
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Peter Taaffe: Tory Press Smear Workers’ Paper
(Militant, No. 471, 21 September 1979 p. 8-9) We publish below a letter sent by Peter Taaffe, on behalf of ‘Militant’ to the ‘News Of The World’ in answer to their attack on us on 9th September. Readers of this vulgar Sunday scandal sheet were led towards an “exclusive” – which revealed “the [so-called] truth…
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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: Smear Campaign on CND Worthy of Goebbels
[Militant No. 653, 1st June 1981, p. 9] By Lynn Walsh Under Thatcher’s orders, the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence are engaged in “the most concentrated propaganda campaign to be launched in Britain in peace time.” And this comes from the Tory Sunday Telegraph. The Tory leadership has been shaken by the growing protest…
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Lynn Walsh: Scandal at The Mirror
[Militant No. 782, 24th January 1986, p. 5] By Lynn Walsh Secretive, unscrupulous, undemocratic, just a few of the expletives thrown at Militant in yet another Mirror tirade. But perhaps the hired pen who dutifully bashed out this “comment” (21 January) should have applied them to his boss? Secretive? Who owns Maxwell’s great organ of…