[PDF file]: […] and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been forgotten. The Soviet ‘threat’ in the post-war years was […]
[PDF file]: […] Miracles often catalysed insurrections. In Mexico, the Virgin of Guadeloupe was considered to be a miraculous power on the side of the Mexican peasantry and preceded the communist icons as a banner for revolution. The sainthood Page 67 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 commissions of the Church had the task of integrating these ‘miracles’ and […]
[PDF file]: […] it clear it reserved the right to act independently. Traditionally regarding anything ‘China’ as their preserve, they considered Eden naïve (at best), the Emperor Bao a clear Communist stooge and Ho Chi Minh a ruthless conspirator controlled by Moscow. Within a few years, with the US actively promoting dissent and opposing anything less than […]
[PDF file]: […] this point, actually announced when Radio Atlanta started broadcasting in May 1964, that it was intended to be ‘the last bastion of freedom if the country went Communist.’ This could only have been an allusion to the possibility that the general election that was due in late 1964 would result in a Labour government […]
[PDF file]: […] one hand) and personal liberalism (on the other) has been one of the most successful PR tricks in the history of political ideologies. Just as dissidents in Communist Russia were self-identified by default as opponents of their comrades, and hence enemies of the common Although there is, confusingly, some conceptual overlap, and it’s unclear […]
[PDF file]: […] this penetration see, for example, false flags to deliver the material. This is also a case study of the US response to economic nationalism. Fidel was no communist when he arrived. Castro offered reasonable compensation for the US-owned assets he wanted to nationalise but the Americans refused to consider that. Instead they began economic […]
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[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era John Newsinger In the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 capitol insurrection in Washington DC, a large number of books have been published examining the background to the event and warning of the dangers that still lie ahead. This review looks at only a […]
[PDF file]: […] on economic matters but seems to have fallen out of favour because his own large family was deemed offensive at the time of the ‘one-child’ policy. He also confirms that Harold Wilson was destabilised and made paranoid by rogue elements in the security forces who thought him a communist agent. But we all knew that.
[PDF file]: […] 75 (GB75), an organisation intended to fight the threat from the Left and ready to organise strike-breaking if and when there was a General Strike and attempted Communist takeover. The intention was to have a volunteer force ready in place throughout the country that would be able to keep ‘essential services’ running and help […]
