Schlagwort: US
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Lynn Walsh: A period of Depression
[Militant International Review, No 53, p. 19-25] Is the world economy in just another cyclical recession? Or a long-term period of depression? Lynn Walsh examines the arguments. The seasons have changed many times since Clinton, Major, and other capitalist leaders first pointed to ‘green shoots of recovery’. Yet so far, recovery from the recession which…
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Peter Taaffe: Ruling class crime
(Militant No. 755, 28 June 1985, p. 7) There are a lot of hidden swindles within big business which never see the light of day. The Times, the day before the JMB report broke, lifted a little stone to reveal the monstrous rackets of big business in the United States. In America at the moment…
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Peter Taaffe: Defend Black Panthers from Police Assassins
(Militant No. 60, January 1970 p. 2, of course we would today not use the N-word) By Peter Taaffe The bestial murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, Black Panther leaders in Chicago, in December followed a few days later by the police attack on the Panthers‘ Los Angeles headquarters has revealed to the World…
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Peter Taaffe: USA Today
(Militant International Review, No. 57, August 1994) Militant Labour General Secretary Peter Taaffe, a recent visitor to the US, examines the perspectives for the world’s greatest superpower. ‚The American tradition is based on expectations of rising wealth. Large parts of the population are now faced with the reality of being poorer than their parents or…
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Lynn Walsh: Vietnam Pounded – But Nixon will not escape defeat
[Militant No. 136, 29 December 1972, p. 1 and 2] By Lynn Walsh (Ardwick Labour Party) The vast armoury of mighty American imperialism has once more been unleashed in full force upon the people of North Vietnam. 600 B52 bombers have been pounding the cities. Since the war began, no less than seven million tons…
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Lynn Walsh: Afghanistan – Can the guerrillas ever win?
[Militant No. 607, 25th June 1982, p. 11] First part of a two-part article by Lynn Walsh “Russians fight losing battle in Afghanistan.” This recent headline in The Times is typical of the capitalist press of the West, which has been predicting the imminent downfall of the Barbrak Karmal regime ever since the Russian forces…
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Lynn Walsh: Afghanistan – Invaded or Liberated?
[Militant No. 499, 18th April 1980, p. 11] What should be the attitude of Marxists to Russia’s involvement in Afghanistan? We print right two letters from our readers [first printed in our 21 March edition] which raise two alternatives and a reply below from Lynn Walsh. The letters on Afghanistan from Chris Evers and Tom…
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Lynn Walsh: Afghanistan – Who would benefit from the withdrawal of Russian forces now?
[Militant No. 491, 22nd February 1980, p. 11] In this, the second part of a two-part article, Lynn Walsh explains why ‘Militant’, which condemned the Russian intervention, does not call for their withdrawal now. Although US imperialism will not intervene directly in Afghanistan at this stage, they are already stepping up military aid to General…
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Lynn Walsh: Afghanistan
[Militant No. 490, 15th February 1980, p. 10] Marxists could not support the Russian bureaucracy’s invasion because of its reactionary consequences internationally. But once Russian forces had gone in, it would have been wrong to call for their withdrawal. Dear Comrade, I have just read Ted Grant’s article on Afghanistan [Militant 486, 18 January]. The…
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Lynn Walsh: Rhodesia: White Regime losing ground
[Militant No. 316, 6th August 1976, p. 8] Remorseless pressure from the guerrilla fighters is steadily undermining the position of the Smith regime. Despite all the usual official denials, it is clear that the Rhodesian security forces are having more and more difficulty holding their own. Not only have the guerilla incursions continued along the…