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Schlagwort: USA

  • Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill

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    [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

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    [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

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    [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…

  • Lynn Walsh: Doppeldipper fahren

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    [eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Socialism Today, Nr. 160 Juli-August 2012. Double Dip, „doppeltes Eintauchen“ ist die englische Bezeichnung für eine W-förmige Rezession] Führende kapitalistische Vertreter*innen sind ratlos, während sie sich bemühen, mit der Krise in der Eurozone und ihrer Bedrohung für die Weltwirtschaft klarzukommen, und scheitern. Weder der G20-Gipfel in Mexiko noch die…

  • Socialism Today: Japan, the US and the coming world downturn

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    [Socialism Today, No 28, May 1998, p. 2-4] Japanese capitalism is sliding into a slump. We predicted this in January, when many economic pundits were still dismissing the Asian crisis as a little local difficulty. Now our prognosis has been confirmed by the president of the giant Japanese electronics group, Sony. Japanese industrial leaders are…

  • Socialism Today: US/Iraq: War threat averted – for now

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    [Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 14-18] The planned US air strike against Iraq was narrowly averted by the agreement reached by UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan, in Baghdad on 24 February. Thankfully, many thousands of Iraqi men, women and children, already suffering from the devastating effects of sanctions, escaped more death, injury and…

  • Socialism Today: No Way Back to New World Order

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    [Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 2-4] It now appears most probable, as we go to press, that the US will soon unleash a prolonged air strike against Iraq. The Clinton administration has delivered an ultimatum to Saddam, based on a maximum demand for unlimited scope for the UN weapons inspectors, which the Iraqi…

  • Phil Clarke: OJ jurors find US justice system guilty

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    [Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 6] The vast media coverage of the OJ Simpson trial sucked viewers and readers into discussion within the terms presented in the court soap opera – did he, or did he not, do it? Many got confused about where their sympathies lay in answering that question. On the…

  • Dave Cotterill: Clinton’s Haitian gamble

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    [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…

  • Militant International Review: After the cold war

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    [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…