Schlagwort: Soviet Union
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Elizabeth Clarke: Soviet Union in turmoil
[Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 42-49] The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution, argues Elizabeth Clarke. Workers‘ patience with the deprivations of the mismanaged planned economy have been exhausted The Soviet Union is being torn apart by contradictory processes of revolution and counter-revolution. The…
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Jen Pickard: Women in the Soviet Union
[Militant International Review, No 37, Autumn 1988, p. 19-23] In his book Perestroika: New Thinking for our Country and the World, Gorbachev claims that women in the Soviet Union have “the same right to work as men, equal pay … every opportunity to get an education, to have a career and to participate in social…
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Peter Taaffe: Russian economy: choked by bureaucracy
(Militant No. 688, 24 February 1984 p. 8-9) The death of Andropov and his replacement by the even greyer and older Chernenko has been the occasion for the hirelings of capital in Fleet Street to predictably point to the deficiencies of the Stalinist regime, its totalitarian character, massive corruption, etc. By this means they seek…
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Peter Taaffe: National Turmoil Erupts in USSR
[Militant International Review, No 42, Winter 1990, p. 10-15] Gorbachev’s reforms have unleashed the outrage of the national minorities within the USSR, suppressed for decades by Stalinism. But as Peter Taaffe explains, Gorbachev’s solutions to the ‘national problem’ are a million miles removed from Lenin’s. “There has not been a single quiet day in the…
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Peter Taaffe: Bureaucrats tremble before workers‘ movement
(Militant International Review, No. 41, Autumn 1989) Peter Taaffe explains how the political revolution against Stalinism in Eastern Europe has begun. The MIR has long predicted that Gorbachev’s attempts at ‚reforms from the top‘ would provoke revolution, political revolution, from below. The mighty strike wave of the Soviet miners in July confirms that analysis. Like…
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Militant: Iranian Fiasco
[Editorial, Militant no. 501, p. 2] The abortive attempt to rescue the 50 American hostages from the embassy in Tehran was a desperate measure on the part of Carter. The President himself had earlier said that any such attempt would almost certainly lead to the death of the hostages. Yet clearly, the pressure of public…
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Lynn Walsh: Afghanistan – Regime is building basis of support
[Militant No. 608, 2nd July 1982, p. 10] By Lynn Walsh Second of two-part article The Russian intervention had enormously reactionary consequences internationally, allowing the US government, Thatcher, and other Western leaders to justify a new spurt in the arms race. The confusion caused among workers throughout the world by Russia’s bureaucratic military invasion in…
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Lynn Walsh: Afghanistan – Can the guerrillas ever win?
[Militant No. 607, 25th June 1982, p. 11] First part of a two-part article by Lynn Walsh “Russians fight losing battle in Afghanistan.” This recent headline in The Times is typical of the capitalist press of the West, which has been predicting the imminent downfall of the Barbrak Karmal regime ever since the Russian forces…