Schlagwort: Tories
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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: Bosses Plan New Attack on Unions
[Militant No. 429, 27th October 1978, p. 1 and 12] By Lynn Walsh The Labour government must drop wage restraint and carry out bold socialist policies to benefit workers. The Ford workers’ action for better pay and conditions having an effect in unexpected quarters. Church of England parsons met in London to discuss how to…
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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: Prentice Defects
[Militant No. 377, 14th October 1977, p. 1 and 2] Goodbye and good riddance! That is the reaction of most Labour Party members to Reg Prentice’s defection to the Tory Party. “If I blame myself for anything,” Prentice told Walden on ‘Weekend World’, “it is that I did not leave the Labour Party earlier.” This…
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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: Tories incite bigots
[Militant No. 883, 12th February 1988, p. 6] The Lords last week approved a pernicious law. Clause 28 of the Tories‘ Local Government Bill will become infamous. The Bill now says that local authorities „shall not promote homosexuality or publish material for the promotion of homosexuality“. Nor shall they „promote the teaching in any maintained…
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Curzon, George Nathaniel
[eigene Übersetzung des russischen Textes in der Anmerkung 53 von Trotzki Sotschinenija, Band 21] Lord Curzon (geb. 1859) – einer der angesehensten Leader der konservativen Politiker Englands. Seine Bildung erhielt er an der Oxforder Universität. Als Vizekönig Indiens (1899-1905) schlug er mit großer Brutalität jede Äußerung der hinduistischen nationalen Befreiungsbewegung nieder. In dieser Zeit schrieb…