Historical notes on the four freedoms
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[PDF file]: This is the final chapter of my The Rise of New Labour, published in 2002. It didn’t get any attention and didn’t sell but is still available in ebook form. I was prompted to make this available because of the rehabilitation of Gordon Brown recently. Lest we forget, he is one of the chief […]
[PDF file]: […] some of the introduction, this is a talk I gave to the conference on SCADS, state crimes against democracy, in London in October 2011. The rise of New Labour Robin Ramsay I was asked to talk about the rise of New Labour, presumably because in some way it illustrates the notion of a SCAD, […]
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Greg Palast New York: Dutton, 2006, $25.95, h/b Another whizzer from Palast. It’s content is similar in a general sense to his previous one, The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy: the corruption and power of the global corporations; the venality of politicians (and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats in particular); […]