Schlagwort: Stalinism
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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…
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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: 1936/1937 – Lessons of the Popular Front
[Militant No. 315, 30th July 1976, p. 6-7] Forty years ago, on the 18th July 1936, General Franco launched the military revolt which began three years of civil war and drowned the Spanish Revolution in blood. For Europe, the defeat of the Spanish workers and the strengthening of fascism meant a fatal step nearer to…
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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 – Invaded or Liberated?
[Militant No. 499, 18th April 1980, p. 11] What should be the attitude of Marxists to Russia’s involvement in Afghanistan? We print right two letters from our readers [first printed in our 21 March edition] which raise two alternatives and a reply below from Lynn Walsh. The letters on Afghanistan from Chris Evers and Tom…
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Lynn Walsh: Afghanistan – Who would benefit from the withdrawal of Russian forces now?
[Militant No. 491, 22nd February 1980, p. 11] In this, the second part of a two-part article, Lynn Walsh explains why ‘Militant’, which condemned the Russian intervention, does not call for their withdrawal now. Although US imperialism will not intervene directly in Afghanistan at this stage, they are already stepping up military aid to General…
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Lynn Walsh: Afghanistan
[Militant No. 490, 15th February 1980, p. 10] Marxists could not support the Russian bureaucracy’s invasion because of its reactionary consequences internationally. But once Russian forces had gone in, it would have been wrong to call for their withdrawal. Dear Comrade, I have just read Ted Grant’s article on Afghanistan [Militant 486, 18 January]. The…
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Lynn Walsh: Letter – Lynn Walsh Answers Johnstone
[Militant No. 346, 11th March 1977, p. 9] Dear Comrades The real issues in the debate with Monty Johnstone (of the Communist Party) is the fundamentally mistaken strategy and tactics of the Comintern under Stalin in the Chinese revolution of 1925-7. Comrade Johnstone seems to have lost sight of this. In his letter last week,…