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		Nicholas Lord Taaffe a short time before his death wrote a petition to the Empress it is not ascertained whether the same petition was really presented to her or not but the substance of it is as fellows: “He was the only Peer of the realm who had left his country without having been outlawed.
		TAAFFE, EDUARD FRANZ JOSEPH VON, COUNT [tenth Viscount Taaffe and Baron of Ballymote, in the peerage of Ireland] (1833-1895), Austrian statesman, was born at Vienna on 24th February 1833.
		In 1628 Sir John Taaffe was raised to the peerage as Baron Ballymote and Viscount Taaffe of Corren.
	www3.sympatico.ca /wfmcgee/Brett/1600s/taaffe.htm (6473 words)

	Frontline - Cuba
		The reason Taaffe gives for not having written this book is the necessity to reply to a criticism made by Doug Lorimer of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) of Australia of a pamphlet on Cuba he had written in 1978 (1).
		Peter Taaffe is right in saying that: “the evolution of Castro’s thoughts and deeds is not an incidental or secondary question.” It is important because it helps us to understand the genesis and evolution of the Cuban leadership.
		Peter Taaffe defends the idea that Fidel Castro: “up to this stage [the victory of the Revolution] had been no more than a radical middle-class democrat whose ideal was democratic capitalist America.” It is highly doubtful whether this was ever true of Castro.
	www.redflag.org.uk /frontline/one/cuba.html (3045 words)

	Shameful dogma: why 'Socialist Party' attacks socialist Cuba Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! 158 ...
		This is because, Taaffe claims, the Cuban revolution was based in the countryside, predominantly on the support of the 'peasantry', and not on the industrial workers in the towns and cities.
		Taaffe does mention favourably the workers' militia formed after the revolution as an example of workers' democracy in action, but fails to mention that the militias still exist and Cuban workers are still armed.
		When Taaffe tries to argue that the Cuban leadership is a privileged elite, the very cases he cites are those where the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) took action to cleanse their ranks during the rectification campaign of the 1980s.
	www.ratb.org.uk /frfi/158_dogma.html (817 words)

	The Cuban Revolution and Its Leadership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Taaffe's refusal to recognise this stems from a false conception of the dialectic of revolution in underdeveloped countries and from a hidebound sectarianism flowing from a semi-religious cult-like messianism, i.e., that the adherents of the CWI, i.e., his devout followers, are the only genuine Marxist revolutionaries existent anywhere in the world.
		Taaffe claims that from the "outset" of the Cuban revolution (i.e., from the very beginning of the Castro regime) "power [was] concentrated in the hands of a layer of privileged officials"; the Castro regime was "basically similar to" the Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union.
		Taaffe briefly mentions that revolutionary Cuba's very survival was dependent upon continued economic and military aid from the Soviet bureaucracy ("He who pays the piper calls the tune"), but he fails to take that fact into account when he assesses the political actions of the Castro leadership — a luxury that the Cubans could not.
	www.dsp.org.au /dsp/DLCuba/DLCuba.htm (17295 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Comrade Taaffe pretends that his pamphlet is directed towards bigger and better targets than Doug Lorimer and the LPP (although it has to be said that, if the CWI decline continues at the present rate, the DSP will soon leave it behind in terms of global influence).
		While Taaffe justifies this political line by claiming that Cuba is a "deformed workers' state", in which political power is monopolised by a "privileged elite" made up of the "party and state officials", he completely fails to demonstrate the existence of this "privileged elite", despite devoting 18 pages to this issue.
		Taaffe is so blinded by his sectarian-doctrinaire hostility to the Castro leadership that he fails to see that Habel's comment refutes his whole analysis of the nature of the Cuban leadership.
	www.dsp.org.au /dsp/20000907.htm (3483 words)

	Communist Party of Great Britain - Socialist Party in crisis
		Challenge to CWI - The crisis in Peter Taaffe's tattered Committee for a Workers International is set to take a lurch forward in early September with the formation of a rival international grouping.
		Taaffe loses Pakistan - The disintegration of Socialist Party, along with its Committee for a Workers International, continues to accelerate.
		Taaffe culls opposition - The crisis of the Socialist Party in England and Wales has deepened dramatically with the news that the entire regional committee in Liverpool and their supporters have has been suspended for their refusal to sign a seven-point ‘loyalty’ pledge put to them by Peter Taaffe - November 5 1998
	www.cpgb.org.uk /spewcrisis/index.html (1699 words)

	Innuendo, falsehoods and character assassination - Indymedia Ireland
		Taaffe goes on to describe how he played a game of cat and mouse with the caretaker every morning, “fortunately the agility of youth had an advantage over older legs”.
		Peter Taaffe wrote that the 1990s were to be the red-90s.
		Taaffe himself admits this — they were all confined to the top leadership bodies, in order not to disturb the illusion of unanimity.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=60690&search_text=tourish (13915 words)

	History of British Trotskyism Postcript [Section 7]
		Taaffe knew that it would be impossible to remove Ted without a battle with Alan Woods - something he feared because of the consequences, above all in the International.
		Taaffe and his supporters did not possess the necessary political armoury to take on the Opposition in a fair fight.
		Taaffe has thus succeeded in destroying the Liverpool organisation that he was in charge of for so many years, and which used to be regarded as the jewel in the crown of Militant.
	www.marxist.com /hbt/p-7.html (3877 words)

	Review: Cuba: Socialism and Democracy by Peter Taaffe \| Workers' Liberty
		This book is a pseudo-debate between Peter Taaffe of the Socialist Party and CWI (formerly-Militant) in Britain and Doug Lorimer of the Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and, I guess, an attempt to check the recent rash of Castro-worship in the Scottish Socialist Party, with whom Taaffe maintains a strained relationship.
		Taaffe subscribes to permanent revolution, and is thus more critical of Castro.
		Yet Taaffe shares fundamentally the same framework as Lorimer, believing that Cuba under Castro is, as Russia under Stalin and China under Mao were a deformed workers’ state, historically more progressive than capitalism, and in some senses (nationalised property, planned economy, welfare gains, absence of a bourgeois class) part of the socialist alternative.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/4494 (779 words)

	Letter to The Socialist: Peter Taaffe's Reformism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		They have assured me that the Taaffe quote was edited to remove revolutionary content and that there would be a correction.
		It is true that Taaffe's final sentence does sound as though it may have been cut short.
		While I struggle to think what magic words he could have spoken to transform this abject reformism into a revolutionary perspective I gave your comrades the benefit of the doubt and decided to wait for a correction.
	www.bolshevik.org /Leaflets/Letter_to_SP_April2006.html (205 words)

	Malaysia Today: MT-Book Section: Monday, March 07, 2005
		Peter Taaffe is the general secretary of the Socialist Party of England and Wales.
		Taaffe is also a member of the International Executive Committee of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) which has members in 40 countries around the world.
		Peter Taaffe would be visiting Malaysia between 4th.
	www.malaysia-today.net /books/2005_03_07_MT_books_archive.htm (2985 words)

	How the Militant was Built – and How it was Destroyed
		This role was fulfilled by Peter Taaffe, who was at that time a promising youngster from Birkenhead, who was brought down to London in the summer of 1965 on a full-time basis.
		Taaffe was to work energetically alongside Ted Grant for the next 35 years and, with his considerable organizational skills, undoubtedly played a significant role in the building of the tendency.
		Peter was without doubt a capable man, but his abilities were of a purely organisational and agitational character.
	www.marxist.com /ourhistory/militant40yrs.htm (10754 words)

	Pseudo-Trotskyist Lullabies
		These fairy tales are also spread by the reformist tendencies led by Ted Grant and Peter Taaffe, the remnants of the pseudo-Trotskyist Militant tendency that for decades was buried in the British Labour Party.
		Taaffe and Co. call for “the formation of broad, democratic workers’ parties, on the basis of an anti-capitalist programme.” In other words, they want to recreate the Old Labour Party so they can bury themselves in it again.
		For their part, various pseudo-Trotskyists like Taaffe, Grant, LO and the ICL deny that the FN is fascist and pooh-pooh all talk of a danger of fascist reaction.
	www.internationalist.org /lullabies0602.html (1339 words)

	A Taaffe Genealogy
		Established in 1472 Captain and Brethren at Arms, or the Brotherhood of St. George for the preservation of the English Pale.
		Children of PETER TAAFFE and ELEANOR BELLEW are:
		Peter was murdered in his own house during the rebellion in Queen Elizabeth's reign.
	www3.sympatico.ca /wfmcgee/Brett/1700s/Taaffe_Genealogy.htm (238 words)

	PETER BLUM GALLERY: Books
		An essay by Erich Franz and Prologue by Peter Blum are printed by letterpress.
		All of the etchings are reproduced in full in the book, five in fl and white and one in color, plus one double page with six fl and white reproductions.
		The text, in the form of a conversation, is by film-maker Stan Brakhage and Philip Taaffe.
	www.peterblumgallery.com /p_books.html (1882 words)

	Militant’s Real History: In Reply to Ted Grant and Rob Sewell, by Peter Taaffe
		Militant's Real History is written by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party.
		Even this can serve to illustrate how honest socialists and Marxists should approach history, and the difference between a genuine Marxist organisation capable of attracting the best of the working class, and those condemned to forever remain on the margins of the labour movement.
		Read The Rise of Militant, by Peter Taaffe, the official history of 30 years of Militant, the forerunner of the Socialist Party, serialised on the site.
	www.marxist.net /grantreply/intro.htm (924 words)

	Weekly Worker 337 Thursday May 25 2000
		He was expelled by order of Peter Taaffe supposedly for bringing the 'party' into disrepute.
		And in contrast to Taaffe and his clique, we have to be open with our politics (obviously comrades' individual identities are another thing).
		If we criticise the bureaucratic clique at the head of our party for acting as conspirators and having contempt for openness, then no left opposition is going to win by acting in the same way.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/337/antitaaffe.html (1562 words)

	Registration of Political Parties Act used to disbar Socialist Party in British elections
		The Socialist Party was launched in 1996 by the Militant group, led by Peter Taaffe.
		As the Socialist Party, the Taaffe group hopes to win disaffected Labour voters by putting forward a programme of minimum social reforms.
		The decision to disbar the Socialist Party is the Labour government's vindictive response.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/mar1999/brit-m19.shtml (558 words)

	Peter Taaffe's Asian tour \| The Socialist 2 April 2005
		SOCIALIST PARTY general secretary Peter Taaffe has been on a successful tour of South Asia, speaking at public meetings, discussing with socialist activists, and with fellow members of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
		For a full report of Peter's visit to Pakistan see Pakistan- Musharraf rule shaky as poverty rockets on the CWI website: www.socialistworld.net
		Peter then travelled to Sri Lanka to attend the United Socialist Party (CWI) congress in Colombo where he introduced the discussion on international developments.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2005/386/np3a.htm (139 words)

	East Village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Scharf's warped appropriations of Jetsons cartoon characters are in some ways the antithesis of Taaffe's meticulous layering of images borrowed from Ellsworth Kelly and Bridget Riley; nevertheless, their shared use of cultural quotations links them to a broader 1980s project of emphatically refuting the myth of artistic originality.
		The cool, stripped-down paintings of Taaffe and Peter Schuyff, and the more Neo-Surrealist work of George Condo, evoked a stylistic sophistication that seemed to spurn some of the East Village's proletarian trappings in favor of artworks and galleries that were every bit as polished as their uptown counterparts.
		The narrative of the East Village cannot be relayed without giving attention to the devastating role played by AIDS, in terms of both the work created at the time and in the neighborhood's eventual demise as a gallery district.
	www.newmuseum.org /now_cur_evusa.php (1201 words)

	PETER BLUM GALLERY: Artists
		A Group of 12 Boli figures from Mali, in wood, clay and organic substances.
		A book, “Philip Taaffe Composite Nature”, was published in conjunction with this exhibition (PEB).
		Links on artist names connect to their personal web pages.
	www.peterblumgallery.com /p_artists.html (1451 words)

	Socialism Today - Counting down to war?
		November’s UN vote showed the preparedness of the US to use its military, economic and political clout to get its way in order to unseat Saddam.
		But, argues PETER TAAFFE, nothing is more unpredictable than war or the path to war.
		RESOLUTION 1441 passed by the United Nations (UN) security council on 8 November by 15 votes to nil is similar to the terms of surrender dictated by the victors to the defeated in battle.
	www.socialismtoday.org /71/war.html (4126 words)

	DaveMilsom's Web Research eSnips Folder
		This lead off from Peter Taaffe was made at a Marxist weekend school about 20 years ago, but it still relevant today.
		It deals with the second Chinese Revolution - which brought Mao to power.
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	esnips.com /web/DaveMilsomsWebResearch (58 words)

	Socialist Alternative, Twin Cities Minnesota
		Visit the homepage of the Committee for a Worker's International for regular news and analysis from socialist activists across the globe.
		The History of the CWI By Peter Taaffe
		Marxism Opposes Terrorism By Peter Taaffe and Leon Trotsky
	www.tc.umn.edu /~marxist/articles.htm (359 words)

	New Socialist Alternative
		THE US is the world's only superpower yet, despite its overwhelming military might, in relation to Iraq, Afghanistan and now Somalia it has become embroiled in situations that it cannot control.
		PETER TAAFFE, CWI and the Socialist Party general secretary England and wales, examines the perspectives for US imperialism.
		IN THE second week of May there was a convulsion in the world financial system.
	socialism.in (503 words)

	Socialist Party - Leicester Branch - Events
		Peter Taaffe author of "Empire Defeated: Vietnam war- The Lessons for Today""
		Transport from Leicester leaves 6.45pm Contact us for details
		For more info: Telephone 0116 223 0534 or email
	members.tripod.com /~sp_leicester/events.htm (52 words)

	Victorian values at Berlin "Socialism Days"
		We print below a translation of a leaflet published by our comrades of the Spartakist-Jugend, Germany that was distributed at the Berlin "Socialism Days" of 25-27 March.
		This event was hosted by the Sozialistischen Alternative Voran (SAV), the sister group of Peter Taaffe's Socialist Party in Britain.
		The cowardly political exclusion of communists on the basis of our defence of consensual intergenerational sex exposes the kind of social backwardness that these "socialists" tail.
	www.icl-fi.org /english/wh/190/victorian.html (1712 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Irish Confessors and Martyrs
		1588: Peter Miller, B.D., Diocese of Ferns -- tortured, hanged, and quartered, 4 October, 1588;
		1588: Peter (or Patrick) Meyler -- executed at Galway; notwithstanding the different places of martyrdom assigned, these two names may be those of the same person, a native of Wexford executed at Galway;
		1641: Peter O'Higgin, O.P., prior at Naas -- hanged, 24 March, Dublin.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08163a.htm (4080 words)

	Socialist Party Belfast Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		SIXTY YEARS ago, on 20 August 1940, Ramon Mercader, an agent of Stalin’s secret police (the GPU) struck a crushing blow with an ice-pick into Leon Trotsky’s skull, ending the life of Stalin’s most feared critic, the foremost Marxist theoretician and outstanding revolutionary.
		3 related articles from the same period by Lawrence Coates, Trotsky's relevance today by Peter Taaffe and The Assassination of Trotsky by Lynn Walsh.
		If you encounter any difficulties such as broken links please notify us.
	www.geocities.com /socialistparty (133 words)

	Marxisme.org
		Afghanistan, Islam and the Revolutionary Left Peter Taaffe
		The case for a new mass workers' party
		Liverpool: a city that dared to fight Tony Mulhearn et Peter Taaffe
	www.lsp-mas.be /marxismeorg/livres.html (257 words)

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