Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known about Agca-especially the path of his travels from Turkey-remained remarkably fragmentary; the numerous accounts that appeared in the world's press were often contradictory. Turkish authorities were at least confident about one point: despite Agca's initial claims that he was associated with the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, he was really a right-wing fanatic. Agca was a frequenter of the "idealist youth associations," which are known to be satellites of the National Action Party (N.A.P.), a neofascist group with 586 members currently facing trial for terrorist acts in Turkey...
...facing the worst economic crisis in living memory," roared Marxist Union Leader Arthur Scargill. "Young people are being thrown on the scrap heap. We have to take the fight for jobs into the streets!" As Scargill stepped back from the podium, his audience of 2,000 Young Socialists jumped to their feet and broke into wild applause. Assembled at the seaside resort of Bridlington for their annual conference, the young foot soldiers of the Marxist left spent three days berating the established order. They joined in choruses of the worldwide revolutionary anthem, the Internationale. After each refrain, they raised their...
This was all sloganeering hyperbole, to be sure. But there is little question that the Marxist left currently commands more influence than it has ever had since the Labor Party was founded in 1920. In the past year the Marxists have gained control of much of the party's machinery from its aging, moderately left leadership. They have forced rules changes that give them unprecedented power in the selection of the party leader-and potential Prime Minister-as well as strong leverage over Labor's elected representatives...
Organizers. "Red Ted" Knight, an avowed Marxist and mentor to the Greater London Council's Ken Livingstone, is head of London's Lambeth borough council. He loudly protested police action during the riots, mostly by blacks, in Lambeth's Brixton section in April. Said he: "Lambeth is now under an army of occupation. Steps are being taken by the police to set up the same apparatus of surveillance as one sees in concentration camps." A fastidious dresser who drives a BMW, Knight is an unlikely looking street radical, but it is from the pavements that he draws...
Among the converted is Margaret Reavey, 25, a public housing office receptionist in Gateshead, on the northeast coast, who became a Marxist in sympathy for the miners' strike that helped topple the Conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1974. "You don't go to bed at night and wake up a Marxist," explains Reavey. "It comes through experience. I disliked what Heath and the Tories stood...