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Taaffe was influential in the policy decisions of Liverpool City Council of 1983-87, according to the council's deputy leader Derek Hatton, in the formation of the Militant tendency's policy regarding the Poll Tax in 1988-1991, and the Militant tendency's ' open turn ' from the Labour Party in the late 1980s, becoming general secretary of Militant's eventual successor, the Socialist Party in 1997.
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Taaffe and was
The first woman to receive the award was Ellen Taaffe Zwilich who won in 1983.
Peter Taaffe was appointed the first editor, and in 1965 became national secretary.
The name of the paper was the same as the American American SWP publication The Militant, and as a result " most of the pioneers of Militant were not enthralled by the choice of the name " writes Taaffe.
In this regard, she was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, the first being Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in 1983.
Peter Taaffe on the other hand, alongside the majority of Militant's leaders believed that the Labour party was preventing them from moving forward.
The Taaffe government took the Slavic element into greater account than the liberals had and, in turn, was supported by the Old Czechs.
This was mainly in response to the closeness of the British royal family with some German thrones, leading to the loss of British titles from the dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Brunswick, the Crown Prince of Hanover, and the Viscount Taaffe.
Owned by Anne Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, Arkle was trained by Tom Dreaper at Greenogue, Kilsallaghan in County Dublin, Ireland, and ridden during his steeplechasing career by Pat Taaffe.
Taaffe was the founding editor of the Militant newspaper in 1964, and became known as a leader of the Militant tendency.
Taaffe was expelled from the Labour Party in 1983, along with other members of Militants editorial board, Ted Grant, Keith Dickinson, Lynn Walsh and Clare Doyle.
Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire ) ( now part of Merseyside ), Taaffe first joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, before joining the Labour Party where he was attracted to the radical element in the Liverpool Labour Party.
In Liverpool, the militant tradition to which Taaffe refers was can be traced to a founder member of the Communist Party ( Albert Houghton ) who had " long battled with the Stalinists " forming a basis for Trotskyism in Liverpool before the Second World War.
Earlier in 1964, Ted Grant, Liverpudlians Jimmy Deane ( who was National Secretary ) and Keith Dickenson, Ellis Hillman, John Smith and others on the executive of the RSL decided to launch the Militant newspaper " without complete unanimity " Taaffe writes.
Peter Taaffe, who lived in Liverpool at that time, was appointed editor, and Roger Protz, who lived in London where the paper was to be produced, and who had experience working on a magazine, was appointed technical editor.
" I was elected as the first editor of Militant in 1964 ," writes Taaffe, " and the only full-timer in 1965, with Keith Dickinson working with me as an invaluable unpaid ' part-timer ' for the paper from 1965.
In 1965 Taaffe was able to move to London, and was immediately faced with the loss of both Jimmy Deane as national secretary and Roger Protz as technical editor of Militant.
Taaffe characterised Neil Kinnock in this way: “ The bourgeois recognized early that Kinnock ’ s role in attacking Liverpool and the miners was an attempt to sanitise the Labour Party, ridding it of all that ‘ socialist nonsense .’” Taaffe went on to predict “ an enormous recoil towards the left ” within the Labour Party.
In fact it was Grant who had argued in Problems Of Entrism ( 1959 ) and reprinted in great secrecy by the Militant in 1973 with an introduction by Peter Taaffe, that it was correct to leave the Labour Party under certain circumstances, as indeed the British Trotskyists who were in the Labour Party before the Second World War had done.
Grant's words encapsulated the conclusion that was being gradually drawn by the members and leadership of the Militant as a result of the changes in the Labour Party in the 1980s – too slowly, Taaffe later argued.
Taaffe and policy
" Taaffe has also written, ' Trotsky then makes a fundamental point: " Only a correct policy can guarantee a healthy party regime.
The two parties presented memoranda to the emperor, each defending their view and offering their resignation: after some hesitation the emperor accepted the policy of the majority, and Taaffe with his friends resigned.
Taaffe and Liverpool
With Peter Taaffe in Liverpool, Protz, Keith Dickinson, Ted Grant and others did most of the work on the first few issues.
* Liverpool, A City That Dared To Fight-Book by Peter Taaffe & Tony Mulhearn on Militant & the Liverpool City Council
In 1964, Taaffe writes that the " youth supporters of Militant " drew on their experiences gained during the 1960 Clydeside apprentices ’ strike in " seeking to organise and mobilise the Liverpool apprentices.
In the four year Liverpool struggle, Taaffe was closely involved with developments, discussing with close friends and leading Liverpool Militant supporters, such as the former print worker Tony Mulhearn.
Taaffe wanted to take the Liverpool battle towards a split with the Labour Party at that stage.
Taaffe and City
Its successes and set backs are outlined in two books by Peter Taaffe: The Rise of Militant and Liverpool-A City That Dared to Fight ( with Tony Mulhearn ).
The Norfolk Basement: Black and Blue, Bourgoise Bogan DJs, Deep City, Paul Gamblin, DJ Greg Packer, Pocket Disco, Bens Taaffe.
Taaffe and Council
In 1870, the government fell on the question of the revision of the constitution: Taaffe with Potocki and Johann Nepomuk Berger wished to make some concessions to the Federalists ; the Liberal majority wished to preserve undiminished the authority of the Imperial Council.
The Liberals, however, failed to form a new government, as the representatives of most of the territories refused to appear in the Imperial Council: they resigned, and in the month of April Potocki and Taaffe returned to office.
Taaffe and according
Discussing the perceived ' dangers ' of democratic centralism, Taaffe has argued that according to Leon Trotsky there are no guarantees in any form of organisation which can guard against malpractice and the form of organisation that a party takes has a material origin that reflects the circumstances it finds itself in, as well as how it orientates to them.
Taaffe and deputy
Peter Taaffe is general secretary, and Hannah Sell deputy general secretary.
Taaffe and leader
This post he laid down in 1879, and came forward as leader of the Liberal German opposition to the administration of Count Taaffe.
( It was suggested by some that Foot had confused Peter Tatchell with Peter Taaffe, then the leader of the Trotskyist Militant tendency, and that his denunciation was so strong that he could not later retract it without appearing weak.
Taaffe and Militant
The addition of the " Walton Young Socialists " indicated the significance with which Peter Taaffe and Militant viewed the young socialists, and began the practice of Militant members identifying themselves with their local Labour Party or Trade Union.
In the editorial of the first issue of the Militant in October 1964, Peter Taaffe made the strategy of entrism clear:
Militant's national secretary Peter Taaffe outlined how " the trade union and Labour Movement scored a tremendous victory in forcing the Labour government to climb down over its proposed anti-trade union legislation " in the first issue of the Militant International Review ( Autumn 1969 ), Militant's quarterly theoretical journal.
Peter Taaffe, who became editor of the Militant newspaper, joined the Labour Party in 1960, and " In the Labour Party I discovered radical, socialist, Marxist ideas and in the course of discussion and debate I accepted those ideas.
" Shortly after his election to the position of editor of the Militant, Taaffe, together with Ted Mooney and other Militant supporters, participated in an apprentices ' strike, leading apprentices in English Electric on the East Lancashire Road.
In a document written by General Secretary Peter Taaffe in 1996 for the Socialist Party's predecessor Militant Labour, Taaffe suggests that the term ' Democratic centralism ' has " Unfortunately ... been partially discredited, the concept mangled and distorted by Stalinism in particular.
" Taaffe argues that the: " right-wing Labour leadership who usually hurl insults against the Marxists on the alleged undemocratic character of ' democratic centralism ' themselves actually practice an extreme form of ' bureaucratic centralism ', as the experience of the witch-hunt against Militant and others on the left in the Labour Party demonstrated.
*" Problems of Entrism " by Ted Grant with an introduction by Peter Taaffe and various writings by Leon Trotsky as published in a Militant tendency booklet.
In September 1965, Militant in issue no. 9 ran a front page article by Taaffe under the banner headline: " Nationalise the 400 Monopolies ".
In 1983, Peter Taaffe, Ted Grant, Keith Dickinson, Lynn Walsh and Clare Doyle, were expelled from the Labour Party, in an expulsion of the editorial board of Militant ( the leading members of the Militant tendency.
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