The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] of overseas states that became integrated into a single international political and economic system. The core beliefs of this group were a commitment to free trade and liberal values, and it was centred on the City of London. Many of these states were in central Asia and the Middle East, or in territories once […]

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[…] weapons of war against Americans citizens. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. In a technical or structural sense, the […]

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne

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[PDF file]: […] Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.’ 9 He was criticised severely by liberal and left-liberal opponents of US Latin America policy, supporters of the Sandinista Front government in Managua and aid organisations in the US caring for the refugees […]

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[…] weapons of war against Americans citizens. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. In a technical or structural sense, the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] few advisors, and seemed resistant to reaching out beyond their small inner circle.’ What does this sound like? It sounds like NuLab. And it sounds like the Liberal Democrats. All three major parties are now in the grip of little cliques with predictable consequences: as the parties’ members are not of interest or value […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[…] 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A bit of this is true: the BBC certainly supports the human rights culture and multiculturalism. But […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

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[PDF file]: […] rolling political economic crises will only intensify. The effectiveness of the state as a referee within the capitalist system has historically been essential to the creditability of liberal democracy as a practical idea. As the state fails, so will liberal democracy, and with it the chance for some of the richest economies to learn […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

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[PDF file]: […] be taken seriously. In the end, the Red Scare motif comes out on top. For those who are only familiar with the past forty years of neo- liberal Britain, with the country being quite openly and unashamedly run for the benefit of the rich and super rich, he sets out to remind his readers […]

What if…

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[PDF file]: […] – that was how the outer orbital London railway got built, never mind the famous sprawl of council housing in the Yorkshire new town of Beveridge. The liberal elite or the caring classes, as they were sarcastically known, prided themselves on the building of the decent society. They flocked to state-subsided films like Ken […]

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[…] out to hate me. They seem to think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and authenticity, as victims or as perpetrators.’ […]

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