Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: Stalinism

  • Bob Labi: Decisive Action Needed to Carry Through Iranian Revolution

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    [Militant, No 489, 8 February 1980, p 10] With over 70% of the vote Banisadr has won the Iranian Presidential election. Although using Islamic phrases it was his radical rhetoric which attracted support and enabled him to defeat his more conservative opponents. Banisadr becomes the President of an Iran still deep in crisis. Unemployment is…

  • Bob Labi: Iran – Insurance companies nationalised

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    [Militant, No 463, 6 July 1979, p 10] The announcement last week of the nationalisation of all insurance companies, following on the takeover of the banks, marks a new state in the unfolding Iranian revolution. It is only three months since the new ‚revolutionary‘ governor of the Central Bank, Ali Mowlavi, was assuring foreign firms…

  • Militant: Iran – Power Rests with the Armed Workers

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    [Editorial, Militant, No 444, 23 February 1979, p 2] Marxism explains that state power rests on ‚armed bodies of men‘. The correctness of this is shown by the development of the revolution in Iran. The remaining thin threads of the Shah’s power in Iran rested on his army commanders and the rest of the officer…

  • Phil Hearse: The End of Socialism?

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    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 14-18] Phil Hearse reviews The Age of Extremes – The Short Twentieth Century, by Eric Hobsbawm, published by Michael Joseph, 1994, price £20. Eric Hobsbawm is Britain’s leading living historian writing from a broadly Marxist perspective. However, as Hobsbawm himself notes, writing about the 20th century is…

  • Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 32] Churchill: The End of Glory, by John Charmley. Sceptre, 1995, £9-99. Reviewed by Mike Waddington. This is a truly good read. Although written by a right-wing historian it nevertheless provides a useful antidote to the Vera Lynn school of history and probes some of the less well-publicised…

  • Tony Cross: Animal Farm revisited

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 30-31] Animal Farm by George Orwell – a 50th anniversary edition. Secker and Warburg, 1995, £14-99. Reviewed by Tony Cross. Farmer Jones is no longer to be found in the Red Lion at Willingdon drowning his sorrows at the expropriation of Manor Farm by his livestock. Expropriations in…

  • Lezli-An Barrett: Land and Freedom

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 29-30] Lezli-An Barrett, director of the film, Business As Usual, takes a critical look at Ken Loach’s Spanish civil war epic. Contemporary Liverpool. An old man, David Carne, suffers a heart attack. En route to the hospital, he dies. Kim, his granddaughter, sorts through his effects and begins…

  • Lynn Walsh: Rehabilitating Trotsky

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    [Militant International Review, No 44, Summer 1990, p. 6-11] The open re-appraisal of Trotsky in the USSR, argues Lynn Walsh, is the key to understanding the rise of Stalinism – and to formulating a programme which can provide the working class with a way out of the bureaucratic impasse. “Restoring historical and judicial justice is…

  • Kevin Simpson: The break-up of Yugoslavia

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    [Militant International Review, No. 52, July-August 1993, p. 17-20] The Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Branka Magas. Published by Verso, £12-96. Available from World Socialist Books, 3-13 Hepscott Road, London E9 5HB. “Have you ever seen a wedding without meat?” This indifferent response by an Albanian Kosovar miner was given to a journalist asking whether he…

  • Elizabeth Clarke: Soviet Union in turmoil

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    [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…