Schlagwort: Thatcher
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Lynn Walsh: Smear Campaign on CND Worthy of Goebbels
[Militant No. 653, 1st June 1981, p. 9] By Lynn Walsh Under Thatcher’s orders, the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence are engaged in “the most concentrated propaganda campaign to be launched in Britain in peace time.” And this comes from the Tory Sunday Telegraph. The Tory leadership has been shaken by the growing protest…
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Lynn Walsh: Thatcher at bay
[Militant No. 709, 20th July 1984, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh The miners‘ strike has shattered the illusion of Thatcher’s impregnable majority. Preoccupied with class battle in the coalfields, where they thought they would win a quick and easy victory, the Tories have committed a series of disastrous blunders on other fronts: on Liverpool (forced…
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Lynn Walsh: Tory Taxation Policy Only Helps Big Business
[Militant No. 450, 6 April 1979, p. 3] “A Tory government would cut the monstrous burden of taxation!” This will be the refrain from Thatcher, Joseph, Howe and the rest during the campaign. For many workers, now paying painful amounts of income tax out of their hard-earned and far-from-adequate wage packet, such a slogan can…
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Lynn Walsh: Tories Declare War on Workers
[Militant 411 – 23rd June 1978 p. 1 and 16] By Lynn Walsh Mrs Thatcher claims she is maligned. “Labour will try to paint me as a reactionary, implying a sort of early return to the Middle Ages,” she moaned recently. What she really wants, the Tory leader explained, is “to get everyone a capitalist…
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Lynn Walsh: ‘Smile Tho’ Your Jobs are Going’
[Militant No. 536, 23rd January 1981, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh Smile, Thatcher urged us in her New Year message, and things will soon be getting better. Do the Tories really believe this? Is their “optimism” a cynical con-trick, or are they really self-deluded idiots? Faced with gloomy predictions from all the main economic commentators,…
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Lynn Walsh: Bring Down the Tories
[Militant No. 493, 7th March 1980, p. 1 and 2] The 9 March national demonstration must be the starting point of an all-out, mass campaign to bring down the Tory government. Thatcher’s government is the most viciously anti-working class in Britain since the period of crisis and depression before the second world war. The new…
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Lynn Walsh: Spycatcher, Thatcher and the State
[Militant International Review, No 36, Winter 1988, p. 28-35] Thatcher’s prolonged battle to suppress Spycatcher, the memoirs of former MI5 officer Peter Wright, have once again focussed attention on the role of the secret security and intelligence services. Enormous resources have been used to prevent Wright’s disclosures reaching a mass audience. At least £1 million…