Schlagwort: USA

  • Karl Kautsky: Missgünstiges über die Meistbegünstigung

    [Die Neue Zeit, XX. Jahrgang 1901-1902, I. Band, Heft 2, S. 48-54] Ich sprach im vorigen Hefte die Erwartung aus, in der „Neuen Zeit“ werde nun die an Parteigenossen geübte Selbstkritik zurücktreten können. Wenn ich heute trotzdem wieder einen Parteigenossen kritisieren muss, so macht mich das in meiner Erwartung nicht wankend. Ich sehe in dieser…

  • Militant: Iranian Fiasco

    [Editorial, Militant, No 501, 2 May 1980, p. 2] The abortive attempt to rescue the 50 American hostages from the embassy in Tehran was a desperate measure on the part of Carter. The President himself had earlier said that any such attempt would almost certainly lead to the death of the hostages. Yet clearly, the…

  • Clara Zetkin: Johanna Greie-Cramer

    [Nach „Die Gleichheit. Zeitschrift für die Interessen der Arbeiterinnen“, 22. Jahrgang Nr. 2, 23. Oktober 1901, S. 19 f.] Es lässt sich kaum ein größerer Gegensatz der äußeren Verhältnisse denken als der zwischen dem Lebensgang der beiden hervorragenden ausländischen Genossinnen, die der Tod kürzlich aus unseren Reihen gerissen hat: Margaret Ethel MacDonald und Johanna Greie-Cramer.…

  • Clare Wilkins: New attacks on abortion

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 30-31] Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity, by Janet Hadley. Virago, 1990. Reviewed by Clare Wilkins Anti-abortion MPs are planning another attack on the provisions of the 1967 Abortion Act and the present 24-week time limit on abortion. This follows a summer of intense media interest in aspects of…

  • Socialism Today: Clinton’s futile barbarism

    [Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 2-5] Seizing the opportunity created by the blunders of US imperialism and fighting between rival Kurdish factions, Saddam Hussein has effectively taken back control of northern Iraq. The UN-sponsored ‘safe haven’ is now controlled by Saddam’s new allies, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), led by Barzani. This is…

  • Nancy Taaffe: Loach’s Best?

    [Socialism Today, No 16, March 1997, p. 30] Nancy Taaffe reviews the latest film by socialist director, Ken Loach. Carla’s song is the latest joint venture between director Ken Loach and writer Paul Lavery. The film tells the story of George (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas) and is primarily concerned with the relationship that…

  • Labor Militant: Rising anger behind US election results

    [Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 24-25] Last November’s US elections saw the Republicans win both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. Did this mark a big shift to the right in US politics? The following is an edited statement by supporters of US Labor Militant. The Republicans went…

  • Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill

    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 32] Churchill: The End of Glory, by John Charmley. Sceptre, 1995, £9-99. Reviewed by Mike Waddington. This is a truly good read. Although written by a right-wing historian it nevertheless provides a useful antidote to the Vera Lynn school of history and probes some of the less well-publicised…

  • Sam Baskett: Jack London’s Call of Socialism

    [Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 25-28] Sam Baskett looks at the life and work of Jack London, who died 80 years ago this November. Jack London, (1876-1916) was one of the most widely read and highly-paid American writers of his era, at his commercial peak commanding as much as $75,000 per year. His…

  • David Cameron: East Africa in turmoil

    [Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 2-3] The crisis simmering in Zaire for two years has finally come to a head. In 1994, with the victory of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front in neighbouring Rwanda, the ex-Rwandan army and Interahamwe militias, who were responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis, fled…