Schlagwort: USA
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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“…
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9/11 and After
What are the changes in the world situation since the 9/11 attacks? 9/11 was undoubtedly a worldwide turning point. It gave US imperialism, through the presidency of George W Bush, the opportunity to actually implement long-discussed policies of its neo-liberal wing. Their plans go back ten years before 9/11 with the ideas of people like…
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Lynn Walsh: Franco – Schlächter der spanischen Arbeiter*innen
[„Militant“, Nr. 282, 5. Dezember 1975, S. 4-5] Francisco Franco, Generalissimus und selbsternannter „Caudillo”, wird als Schlächter der spanischen Revolution von 1936-39 und als Diktator, der dem spanischen Volk über 30 Jahre lang eine totalitäre Herrschaft auferlegte, in die Geschichte eingehen. Als Führer des nationalistischen Aufstands gegen die Volksfrontregierung war er für den Tod von…