Schlagwort: Thatcher
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Peter Taaffe: The Brutal Face of Toryism Behind the „Liberal“ Mask.
(Militant International Review, No. 14, Summer 1978, p. 3-12) By Peter Taaffe Review article of „Inside Right – a study in Conservatism“ by Ian Gilmour. Published by Hutchinson and Co Lid. When it was first published last autumn this book attracted a lot of attention from capitalist commentators. Some hailed it as a definitive answer…
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Peter Taaffe: „Forward into the ‚Eighties“
(Militant International Review, No. 18, Winter 1980, p. 3-11) Peter Taaffe, editor of ‚Militant‘, looks at the current situation in Britain and points the way forward for Labour. The 1970s was a disastrous decade for the British ruling class. In the last ten years they have seen a further decline in their position. From a…
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Peter Taaffe: Poll tax – Thatcher’s terminal crisis?
(Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990, p. 7-13) The poll tax has become a lightning conductor for the accumulated bitterness at eleven years of Thatcherism. Peter Taaffe examines perspectives for Britain. “As Trotskyists the world over scurry for cover, their British comrades are suddenly on the march in the vanguard of the working class…
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Peter Taaffe: After Thatcher
(Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 3-9) Peter Taaffe analyses the reasons for the fall of Thatcher and looks at the perspectives now „Tory MPs likened each other to rats, vipers and vultures.“ (The Independent, 25 November, 1990.) In the Militant International Review in Spring 1989 we wrote that „the more serious…
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Peter Taaffe: Prospects for Britain under Major
(Militant International Review, No. 48, Summer 1992, p. 2-8) The Tories have won a fourth successive victory but, argues Peter Taaffe, Britain’s underlying economic and social malaise continues. „The economic situation in Britain has reached extreme acuteness. Still, the political superstructure of this arch-conservative country extraordinarily lags behind the changes in the economic basis. Before…
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Peter Taaffe: Bosnia’s Killing Fields
(Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, 2-7) Should the labour movement back military intervention? Or sanctions against Serbia? Peter Taaffe examines the Bosnian nightmare. The Bosnian crisis is now at a turning point. The harrowing accounts of mutilated children in Srebrenica, the photographs of injured soldiers like scenes from the first world war, combined…
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Peter Taaffe: 1977: A Disaster Year for Workers
(Militant No. 387, 6 January 1978, p. 6-7) “The average voter has just suffered the biggest fall in his real disposable income for more than 100 years” [‘Economist’, 8th October 1977]. This is a fitting epitaph for 1977. Millions of British workers will not be sorry to see the back of the past year. For…
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Peter Taaffe: Can Labour win?
(Militant International Review, No. 39, Spring 1989) By Peter Taaffe The guiding principle of Labour’s leadership has been ‚NUNGE‘, (Nothing Until after the Next General Election). Indeed it has at times been their only ‚principle‘! Any attempt to go outside the prescribed narrow parliamentary boundaries has evoked the wrath of Labour’s front bench. In the…
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Lynn Walsh: Verleumdungskampagne gegen die CND ist eines Goebbels würdig
(eigene Übersetzung des englischen Artikels in Militant Nr. 653, 1. Juni 1981, S. 9) Von Lynn Walsh Auf Anweisung Thatchers sind das Außen- und das Verteidigungsministerium mit der „konzentriertesten Propagandakampagne“ beschäftigt, „die es in Großbritannien in Friedenszeiten gegeben hat.“ Dies berichtet der Tory-„Sunday Telegraph“. Die Tory-Führung wurde durch den wachsenden Protest gegen die Aufrüstung mit…