Schlagwort: Stalinism
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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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Peter Taaffe: Out of the Ghetto
(Militant International Review, No. 47, 1992) Anti-fascist activity in the 1930s. Building a mass Communist Party in London’s East End. Peter Taaffe reviews Joe Jacobs‘ recently republished autobiography Throughout Europe right-wing and neo-fascist organisations seem to be on the march. In France Le Pen’s Front National scored an incredible 38% in recent opinion polls. In…
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Peter Taaffe: Red is the colour of our flag
(Militant International Review, No. 46, Summer 1991) Peter Taaffe reviews the recently published autobiography of Oskar Hippe, a fighter in the German workers‘ movement for over six years. Oskar Hippe joined the pre-first world war German Social Democratic Party (SPD) under the influence of his radical elder brother. He swung over in support of Rosa…
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Lynn Walsh: Postscript [to the new edition of Jan Valtin’s Out of the Night]
[Jan Valtin, Out of the Night, Fortress, London 1988, p. 659-677] Jan Valtin’s Out of the Night was first published in 1941 in the United States, by the Alliance Book Corporation of New York. It immediately became a best seller, and eventually sold over a million copies. The first British edition was published in May…
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Lynn Walsh: On the Brink of War
[Militant No. 1006, 31 August 1990, p. 8 and 9] Lynn Walsh looks at the effect on the world The forces for war in the Middle East are in place. The massive build-up of US weaponry and troops continues day and night. For the moment US president Bush appears to have stepped back from the…
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Lynn Walsh: Russian leaders admit frame-ups
[Militant No. 884, 19 February 1988, p. 6] One of the most famous ‘non-persons’ of the Russian revolution has been officially readmitted to the pages of soviet history. By Lynn Walsh Nikolai Bukharin, prominent Bolshevik leader and friend of Lenin, was not a traitor, spy, or fascist agent. Like twenty other defendants, he was the…
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Lynn Walsh: Poland: Defeat for workers – but military can’t solve crisis
[Militant No 583, 8 January 1982, p. 9] By Lynn Walsh With brutal efficiency General Jaruzelski’s military council has consolidated the reaction of Poland’s ruling bureaucracy. Thousands of Solidarity leaders have been arrested and interned or thrown into jail. Military trials, for the „crime“ of fighting for trade union rights and political freedoms for the…
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Lynn Walsh: The Struggle for Peace … is the Struggle for Socialism
[Militant No. 649, 6 May 1983, p. 8 and 9] The British government recently carried out an underground nuclear test in Nevada. The press reported that it had been a „small explosion“, equivalent to less than 20,000 tons of TNT, about the size of the bomb that obliterated Hiroshima in 1945. But this bomb was…
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Lynn Walsh: Leon Trotsky: 1879-1979
[Militant No 477, 2 November 1979, p. 8 and 9] A Hundred Years After his Birth, Militant Celebrates a Great Revolutionary Leon Trotsky: 1879-1979 What need is there to justify celebration of the 100th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s birth? Known to history by his pseudonym, Trotsky was born Lev Davidovitch Bronstein in the Ukraine on…