Schlagwort: USA
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Dave Cotterill: Clinton’s Haitian gamble
[Militant International Review, No. 59, October-November 1994, p. 2-6] With Aristide’s return the problems facing the US invasion force have only just begun. Dave Cotterill writes. The joyous popular welcome to the US forces who landed in Haiti turned sour in less than a fortnight. When US marines stood by while the police and armed…
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Militant International Review: After the cold war
[Militant International Review, No. 50, March-April 1993, p. 2-7] This is the most disturbed period in world relations since that which followed the Versailles treaty at the end of World War One. The Collapse of the Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has dramatically altered world relations. From 1945 to 1989 the…
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Kevin Simpson: The Balkans at war
[Militant International Review, No. 49, Autumn 1992, p. 12-19] Why has civil war exploded into life in a region where national and ethnic tensions had apparently been reduced for over forty years? Kevin Simpson examines the Balkan crisis. Dubrovnik, Split, Sarajevo … names that before 1989 were only mentioned in the media as picturesque resorts,…
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Sam Lewenstein: Peace Settlement – Or preparing for a new war?
[Militant International Review, No. 48, Summer 1992, p. 17-23] Sam Lewenstein looks at the prospects for the Middle East peace talks. The beginning of the Middle East peace talks took place in a blaze of world-wide media coverage. For the first time sworn enemies sat across negotiating tables. Hopes were raised for a final end…
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Michael Roberts: The end of the upswing
[Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 32-39] What are the perspectives for the world economy? Michael Roberts explains. At their international summit in July 1990, the finance ministers of the top seven capitalist nations (G7) exuded confidence that the economic boom which began in 1982-3 would continue indefinitely. They were happy to…
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Militant International Review: Crisis in the Gulf
[Militant International Review, No. 45, New Year 1991, p. 14-31] We print here an extensive editorial statement, originally drafted in October, which examines the background to the crisis, the economic and political consequences in the region and internationally, and the attitude of Marxists to a possible war. A brief update follows on page thirty. That…
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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.…