Schlagwort: Stalinism
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Militant: Trotsky and Revolution
[Militant No. 335, 17th December 1976, p. 9] Dear Comrades, Will ‘Militant’ be making any reply to, or a review of the recent Young Communist League publication COGITO entitled “Trotsky and World Revolution” (published May 1976 and now reprinted). This represents the second part of a major critique by the YCL of the ideas of…
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Lynn Walsh: Nearly 40 years late, the French communist party has admitted that Stalin ordered Trotsky’s assassination
[Militant No. 426, 6th October 1978, p. 8-9] The PCF leadership has touched on a subject which threatens to have explosive repercussions within their own ranks. In mentioning the historical personality of Trotsky, however tentatively, the CP leaders cannot but foster interest among CP-influenced workers, for whom Trotsky’s ideas were previously official anathema. Nearly forty…
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Lynn Walsh: Comment – Dodging The Taxing Questions
[Militant International Review, No 34, Spring 1987, p. 15-17] Prologue: A costly trip Last Summer, Labour’s deputy leader, Roy Hattersley, addressed a select covey of bankers and financiers at New York’s plush Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The trip was paid for by city stockbrokers, Samuel Montague (a subsidiary of Midland Bank). The aim, according to the…
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Lynn Walsh: The Chinese Puzzle
[Militant International Review, No 56, March 1994, p. 26-32] How can China’s ‘economic miracle’ and since Tiananmen, its apparent political stability, be explained? Lynn Walsh looks at The Chinese Puzzle. China, it seems, is different. Since 1989 the advanced capitalist countries have been experiencing recession and only feeble economic recoveries. Most of the economically underdeveloped…
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Lynn Walsh: What is happening in Ethiopia?
[Militant No. 395 – 3rd March 1978, p. 10] In the last few weeks the Ethiopian regime has begun a massive counter-offensive against Somali-backed forces in Ogaden, the region of Ethiopia claimed by Somalia. From all accounts, vast quantities of Russian arms have been air-lifted in and the Ethiopian army has been stiffened with about…
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Lynn Walsh: China: The First Act
[Militant International Review, No 41, Autumn 1989, p. 27-30, 48] The bloody massacre in Tiananmen Square has provoked worldwide horror and anger. Lynn Walsh analyses the magnificent uprising against the bureaucracy, which marks the opening of China’s political revolution. The upsurge against the bureaucracy arose from a period of rapid economic growth. The political crisis…
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Lynn Walsh: German unification: capitalism triumphant?
[Militant International Review, No 43, Spring 1990, p. 14-22] Lynn Walsh argues that, in the absence of a clear alternative, the collapse of East Germany’s Stalinist regime, combined with the overwhelming impression of prosperity in West Germany, undermined the movement towards the political revolution begun by last years mass demonstrations. What are the prospects now?…
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Lynn Walsh: The economics of Perestroika
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 19-21] Abel Aganbegyan is Gorbachev’s chief economic advisor. The recent publication in the West of his book, The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika (Hutchinson £8.95), is itself an indication of the profound crisis now facing the ruling bureaucracy of the Soviet Union. Until recently official Soviet economists denied…
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Militant: Introduction (to the pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“)
[pamphlet “Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 1] Since Gorbachev’s first statements about glasnost in 1986, and his speech at the February 1987 Communist Party congress, the ruling bureaucracy in the Soviet Union has been in turmoil. More significantly, the divisions and splits at the top have been the signal for the biggest movement of the working…
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Jeremy Birch: Bureaucracy or Workers’ Democracy?
[pamphlet „Stalinism in Crisis“, p. 2-5] The western press’ enthusiastically applauded Gorbachev’s performance at the June 1988 special Communist Party conference. They praised his ‘democratic reforms’, his courage and steadfastness. Many workers and young people in Britain are now asking: Will Gorbachev really clear out bureaucratism, will the Russian workers now be able to enjoy…