Workers' Liberty 7, June 1987

Reviews from Workers' Liberty 7, June 1987

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A collection of book and essay reviews from June 1987. Titles and Authors:

'The Truth About AIDS', Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick; Don Milligan

'The End of the Third World', Nigel Harris

'The Making of the Soviet system: Essays in the Social History of Inter-War Russia', Moshe Lewin

'The Development of Capitalism in Africa', John Sender; Shiela Smith

'Lilian Hellman - The Image, the woman', William Wright

'Argentina - From Anarchism to Peronism' Ronaldo Munck, w/ Ricardo Falcon & Bernardo Galitelli

'Hungarian Tragedy', Peter Fryer

'Never the Same Again: Women and the Miners' Strike', Jean Stead

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Letters and replies from Workers' Liberty 7, October 1987

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Letters and replies sent to Workers' Liberty 7, October 1987:

* Zionism, Israel and the play, 'Perdition': Tony Greenstien and John O'Mahony

* Not an inch! Geoff Bell replies to Workers' Liberty on Northern Ireland

* Kitch-Trots tango: John Alloway on the Workers' Revolutionary Party's (WRP) call for an open conference of Trotskyist Groups.

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CLR James: An interview on black politics

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C L R James joined the Trotskyist movement in the mid-'30s after coming to Britian from his native Trinidad; later he moved to the US and took part in the discussions with Trotsky published in the pamphlet 'Leon Trotsky on Black Nationalism and Self-Determination'. In this interview James also talks about his contact with James Connolly's daughter Nora, and his work in launching the first agitation for the independence of colonial Africa, in the 1930's, with George Padmore.

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Labour's Youth: Student 'soft left' and the bureaucrats

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Sandra Cartlidge

In 1987 Labour's youth movements are set for re-organisation under proposals from Tom Sawyer, chair of the Labour Party NEC's Youth sub-committee. The proposals would abolish LPYS (Labour Party Young Socialists, a predecessor of 'Young Labour') representation on the NEC - instead it would be elected by a new structure, involving the Labour Party student organisation and trade union youth sections as well as the existing LPYS.

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Collection of articles from Workers' Liberty 7, June 1987

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Collection of short articles from Workers' Liberty 7, June 1987.

Workers hit back at Haughey: Cuts to Irish heathcare

South Africa: Free Moses Mayekiso! Leading Black South African trade unionist facing death-penalty

Stalinism: Gorbachev and Soviet workers

Union mergers: Reshaping of the British trade union movement.

Malta: Fall of the governing Labour party

Australia: Bob Hawke's governing Labor Party seeks 3rd term

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ELECTION 87 - No, Socialism is not dying!

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Labour gained ground slightly during the 1987 British general election campaign - the first time it had done so since 1959. But the Tories still won. The central lesson - Neil Kinnock said it, and he was right - is that you don't win an election in four weeks.

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"Left Wing" Urban Guerrillas in Ireland: the Irish National Liberation Army's Bloody Feud and the Saor Eire episode

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Sean matgamna [1987]

13 people died, and 20 were injured, in a feud between two sections of the "Irish National Liberation Army". It is a bitter proof that you cannot build a revolutionary socialist party as a political adjunct to a military formation. Click here to download pdf.