[PDF file]: British Counterinsurgency John Newsinger London: PalgraveMacmillan, 2015, p/b, £18.99 This is a new edition of British Counterinsurgency, first published in 2002. Here’s what I wrote about the first edition in Lobster 44. ‘To my knowledge this is the first account of Britain’s post-1945 colonial wars written from a radical left standpoint. By which I […]
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[PDF file]: […] desperately needed export markets and the possibility of lucrative trade with South Africa was hard for Defence minister Shimon Peres to resist. As Rabin, Peres, and a new generation of leaders inherited the party from David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, the conviction that compromising certain values was necessary for survival gained sway and socialist […]
[…] by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, Desai and Harrison all cover some of the same ground: the rise of Thatcherism, the work of the Institute for […]
[…] by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, Desai and Harrison all cover some of the same ground: the rise of Thatcherism, the work of the Institute for […]
[PDF file]: […] this is inevitably an interesting history and Hippler does have much of interest to say on particular topics. Nevertheless, the book remains unsatisfactory, disappointing, with too much philosophy and not enough military history. John Newsinger John Newsinger has a new book, ‘Hope Lies in the Proles’: Orwell and the Left, coming out early next year.
[PDF file]: […] all of the historical budgetary details for MI6 are redacted, when they aren’t for any of the other agencies. At paragraph 83 we get down to the real political nitty gritty, when it is pointed out that, incongruously: ‘Policy responsibility for Hostile State Activity sits in the National Security Secretariat in the Cabinet Office. […]
[PDF file]: […] respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that those criticising Warren’s conclusion should be described as ‘conspiracy theorists’. The author notes that this turned out to be ‘one of the most successful propaganda initiatives of all time’; the ‘conspiracytheory label has become a powerful smear that, in […]
[PDF file]: […] US involvement in the ‘pirate’ radio stations of the 1960s, Robert Henderson’s piece on Enron accounting, John McFall’s account of casualties of the US empire, to my notes on the economic crisis, America’s (failing) empire and this country’s relationship to it is clearly the major theme. And how could it be anything else? Because […]
[PDF file]: […] received some glowing reviews from the major media. I read only the second half of this nicely produced, thoroughly bound 260 page paperback: the essays on the New Statesman under Kingsley Martin; Encounter, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA; and Karl Miller and the London Review of Books. These essays are very […]
