WRP iunks the old Trotskyism
Socialist Press1979 1979-08-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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huge potential market; equally important it has foreign exchange with which to pay for goods and services from overseas."
(Financial Times, 30/8/78)
Largest market Nigeria's importance in this role is revealed in its position as the largest market, outside the USA and the EEC, for British imperialism's exports of commodities and technology.
Publicly the Nigerian government has used this fact as a major feature in its rhetoric aimed at dissuading Thatcher and her Tories from recognizing its bite!) • Those whose habit it is to attempt to find a 'left-wing' party in such situations and thought they had done so in Aminu Kano's People's Redemption Party will be disappointed that the 'left' Kano has been disqualified from running for the Presidencybecause of his tax-dodging.
Waziri Ibrahim, leader of the Great Nigerian People's Party had no such problems-he could afford over £¾ million in taxes last year.
These two parties have not fared very well in the elections thus far. Nor has the Nigerian People's Party of Nnamdi Azikiwe, a pre-independence Trotskyism I. Josha Lester A WSL pamphlet The only serious examination yet produced of the opportunist political line of Gerry Healy's Workers Revolutionary Party in relation to the petty bourgeois nationalist regimes of the Middle East. 45p plus 15p p&p, from:
WSL,31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.
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In order to involve wide layers of workers in fights against cuts in Local Authority programmes and services, militants need to understand something of the way the system operates.
If you intend to fight the cuts you must first be able to identify them.
This article is intended to