Peter Taaffe

Service with a snarl: Robert Service refuses to answer questions

HISTORIAN ROBERT Service recently wrote a well-publicised and widely distributed book Trotsky - a biography...

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Socialism 2009, photo by Rob Emery

11 November 2009

Socialism 2009 - an excellent weekend!

A thousand people came to Socialism 2009 over the weekend to participate in the various discussions and to be inspired by the two rallies. From long-standing Socialist Party activists to those attending their first ever meeting, everyone got something out of it.
"This event allowed me to really understand what the Socialist Party is actually about," said Jessica from Peckham in south London. "I joined the Socialist Party at the event."

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28 October 2009

80th anniversary of the Wall Street Crash: Capitalist failure - then and now

Scant attention has been paid in the media to the 80th anniversary of the October 1929 Wall Street crash. The capitalists can hardly repeat their theme of yesterday - "it can never happen again."
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, takes a look at how much of it really has happened again, and spells out the underlying cause.

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21 October 2009

Videos of Tamil Solidarity and Socialist Students public meeting

Speeches of Senan, Tamil Solidarity international coordinator, and Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity international coordinator #1.

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17 October 2009

Tamil Solidarity: Shut down camps

Free all Tamils from the prison camps in Sri lanka:

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Leon Trotsky reading The Militant newspaper in 1931

13 October 2009

A 'dis-service' to Leon Trotsky

PETER TAAFFE, Socialist Party general secretary, reviews Robert Service's book Trotsky, a Biography.
THIS VERY thick book (600 pages) is very thin on honest political examination and analysis of the ideas of Leon Trotsky, the subject of Service's tome...

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The Socialist Party protesting against capitalism - the G20 - in London, photo Paul Mattsson

7 October 2009

Needed – a party for workers, not bosses

Tories, LibDems, Labour - competing to slash our jobs and services: The 'lesser' or 'greater' evil is not a real choice, claims Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary. 'Like an impenetrable sea mist, the prospect of a Tory government hung over New Labour's conference in Brighton... '

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25 August 2009

The real lessons of the Second World War

Seventy years ago, the major powers plunged humanity into the horror of world war, Peter Taaffe writes in the latest Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party.

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25 August 2009

Marxism and the Second World War

Peter Taaffe writes in the latest Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party.

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26 June 2009

Turning Point In Iraq

AN ITV news reporter in Iraq described the bizarre scene at a press briefing in Baghdad by the US military forces...

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