Schlagwort: Stalinism
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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: Deng draws the line at democracy.
[Militant No. 834, 13 February 1987, p. 10] When China’s student protestors put up posters demanding democracy, they signed them with pseudonyms. They remembered that the last big wave of student and youth protest, the Democratic Movement of 1978-79, was suppressed, and over 200 of its leaders jailed. By Lynn Walsh But one of the…
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Lynn Walsh: China – Behind the new Image
[Militant No. 819, 17 October 1986, p. 10] The Queen’s visit to China symbolises a profound change in the capitalists‘ attitude. Before, the media painted a picture of a regimented population, political thought-control, and unrelenting ‚Communist‘ austerity. Now they present a new China, enlivened by a blossoming market, with political ‚liberalisation‘ and a rapid adoption…
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Lynn Walsh China: On the road to capitalism?
[Militant No. 820, 24 October 1986 p. 10] Do the current reforms raise the spectre of capitalist restoration? Even Reagan now refers to Deng’s group as ’so-called Communists‘, perhaps believing that they have seen the light. Those who argue this, whether eager capitalists or apprehensive socialists, greatly exaggerate the scope of the reforms. They are…
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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: Army Takes Over as Thousands of Communists Murdered in Indonesia
[Militant No. 15, April 1966, p. 3] By Lynn Walsh Sukarno, the almost comical demagogue who shouted so loudly about the struggle against imperialism while he wallowed in the luxury and comfort provided by the desperately poor workers and peasants of Indonesia, has now been impatiently pushed to one side by the Army. With this…
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Lynn Walsh: Uprising in Albania
[Committee for a Workers’ International pamphlet, 1997] Preface The original text of this pamphlet was completed on 25 March 1997 and issued as a statement of the International Secretariat of CWl, published here with minor amendments taking account of new information and more recent developments. The new Postscript was completed on 14 April, 1997. Our…
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Lynn Walsh: Indian Continent – Ablaze
[Militant No. 47, March 1969, p. 1 and 2] Lynn Walsh (Brighton Pavillion L.P.) Last month’s elections in four Indian states underlined the deep crisis in the traditional parties and marked a move to the left in certain of the states. In West Bengal, India’s most important industrial state, the United Front dominated by the…
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Lynn Walsh: Tito – The Path to Power – And Conflict With Stalin
[Militant No. 503, 16th May 1980, p. 8-9] The post-war split between Russia and Yugoslavia gave rise to the myth that Tito was “different”, with wide-spread illusions that his regime was less dictatorial, more democratic than Stalin’s. Despite Tito’s undoubted popularity as the leader of the mass guerrilla struggle which liberated the country from Nazi…
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Lynn Walsh: Out of the Night – An epic story
[Militant No. 919, 28th October 1988, p. 4] Fact, fiction or fantasy? reader asks To mark the republication of Jan Valtin’s classic, Out of the Night, Militant (Issue 916) reprinted a review by Peter Taaffe which first appeared In Militant 291. In response, Mick Jones of Chester wrote criticising this as an „uncritical and romanticised…