Socialist Appeal - Falklands

Falklands

By Ted Grant in 1982
Tuesday, 03 April 2007
25 years ago Thatcher exploited the crisis of the Falkland Islands to the Tory government's advantage. What position should the Marxists have taken? Here we provide an analysis by Ted Grant published at the time that answered this question.

By Socialist Appeal
Monday, 26 March 2007
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Falklands war. Here we republish the late Phil Mitchinson's article, written in 2002, in truncated form. The war that broke out between Britain and Argentina over the ownership of the Falkland Islands required an analysis by Marxists that considered carefully the national question and the Marxist attitude to war.

By Phil Mitchinson
Tuesday, 02 April 2002
On March 30, 1982, in response to Argentina's deepening economic crisis, and the repression of General Galtieri's military-police dictatorship, the workers had taken to the streets of Buenos Aires. The regime was staring overthrow in the face. It responded by starting a war, one of the principal aims of which was to distract the attention of the masses. In all wars the policy and analysis of every organisation is put to the test. The analysis made by the Marxists, on the other hand, remains as valid as when it was written. Unlike other tendencies we can reproduce everything we wrote twenty years ago without changing a single word.