Schlagwort: Trade Union

  • Phil Hearse: Mexico sunrise?

    [Socialism Today, No 21, September 1997, p. 22-24] Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRD suffered its worst electoral defeat in 68 years on 6 July when it lost its overall majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Not only that but the left-centre PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) replaced the right wing PAN (National Action…

  • Peter Taaffe: Blair’s Australian model

    [Socialism Today, No 17, April 1997, p. 21-24] On his notorious 1995 trip to Rupert Murdoch’s luxurious Hayman Islands retreat, Tony Blair swapped notes with Australian premier Paul Keating. Since then, Keating has been pushed from office in a wave of disillusionment with Labor. Peter Taaffe looks at the lessons of Blair’s Australian model. In…

  • John Pickard: U.S.A. Perspectives

    [Militant International Review, No 19, Spring 1980, p. 19-24] In the mid-term Congressional elections in November 1978, the last major national elections, two thirds of the registered voters didn’t even bother to take part. That in itself is an indictment of the American political system, a clear expression of the widespread contempt shown to Congress.…

  • Margaret Creear: Women in Revolt

    [Militant International Review, No 28, Winter 1985, p. 4-8] For Marxists, the movement of the miners’ wives and the many thousands of other women who have supported the miners in this dispute, is a welcome continuation on a higher level of the upsurge of militancy amongst working class women in recent years. It underlines the…

  • Peter Taaffe: The British Trade Unions – The Giant Awakens!

    (Militant International Review, No. 7, 1973, p. 2-16) By Peter Taaffe „There is no power in the world which could for a day resist the British working class organised as a body.“ Thus wrote Frederick Engels 92 years ago in an article dealing with the British unions. Yet there is nothing more ‚modern‘, nothing which…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Peter Taaffe: Spain in Turmoil

    (Militant No. 333, 26 November 1976 p. 6-7) 20th November was the first anniversary of the death of Spain’s blood soaked former dictator Franco. By way of ‘celebration’, and to show that nothing has changed for them under Franco’s royal heir Juan Carlos, eight days earlier at least one and a half million Spanish workers…

  • Peter Taaffe: Labour’s disastrous coalition

    (Militant No. 694, 6 April 1984, p. 10) By Peter Taaffe The capitalist media now has a conscious policy of playing down workers‘ struggles abroad for fear of encouraging similar movements in Britain. They have ignored the colossal ferment taking place in Southern Ireland, for example, which can exercise an enormous effect on workers‘ struggles…