Word: marxist
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...Marxist-oriented I.R.A. Official branch offered the unkindest rebuttal of all. When a Communist-backed revolt broke out in Sudan last year, one official remembered, Gaddafi captured some rebels as they passed through Libya and handed them over to Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry for execution. That, said the I.R.A., hardly qualified him as a fellow revolutionary...
...years he was reviled as an archtraitor of Communism, the heretic who destroyed the unity of the Marxist faith. But last week, in a dramatic culmination of a historic reversal of Soviet policy, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito was treated to a hero's welcome in Moscow. At a state dinner in Tito's honor, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev did not even allude to the earlier disagreements that led to the 1948 break between Stalin and Tito. Instead, Brezhnev praised Tito for "your friendly attitude toward our country." In perhaps the most ironic turnabout of all, Tito...
...Protestant communities can swing violently. But last week, for a while at least, peace seemed a bit closer, as one of the two rival wings of the Irish Republican Army drew back from the brink of what had seemed an incipient civil war. In a dramatic policy announcement, the Marxist-leaning Official wing of the I.R.A. said that "in view of the growing danger of sectarian conflict," it was suspending "all military action" in Northern Ireland unless attacked by British troops or local Protestant forces...
Seldom since the troubles began have the gunmen been less popular with Ulster Catholics. The soldier's death, moreover, seemed to deepen the split between the I.R.A.'s Marxist-lining Official wing and their rivals, the militant Provisional wing. The Proves publicly demanded that the Officials get out of Londonderry; the Officials responded that the Provisionals were "just an extra battalion of the army...
...magic elements that would help Russia overcome its backwardness, they are now placing a mystical faith in modern technology as the solution to their myriad of problems. The Russians have even done a complete turnabout on computers, which for years they dismissed as both unnecessary and distinctly un-Marxist. Cybernetics, the old argument went, stressed technical and managerial facts rather than social and political forces as the decisive factors in administering societies...