Schlagwort: USA
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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.…
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Phil Frampton: Jesse Jackson and the black struggle
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 22-27] Twenty years ago Martin Luther King, America’s foremost black civil rights activist, was assassinated. Two decades later the successes of Jesse Jackson’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 US Presidential elections has once again raised the question, which way forward for blacks in the…
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Kevin Fernandes: Black Sections – Constitutional substitute for socialist policies
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 16-17] At the 1985 Labour Party conference a resolution calling for the setting up of black sections in the Party was defeated with 1,169,000 votes in favour and 5,358,000 against. Prior to the conference the Labour Party NEC had set up a “Working Group on positive discrimination“…