Ken Livingstone MP, has been putting dozens and dozens of questions to our state about the cases and allegations of Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, those bits of the secret state you are allowed to ask questions about, Northern Ireland, psy ops and so on. Putting down such questions is a fairly dispiriting business. Some … Read more
[…] Postscript Despite these last minute boosts to his campaign, Chirac suffered a decisive defeat in the election of May 8th. After Mitterand’s victory with 54% of the vote, the period of ‘co-habitation’ between Socialist President and Republican Prime Minister is over: Chirac resigned within a few days. The French vendetta starts a new stage […]
Amnon Reuveni Temple Lodge Publishing, London 1997, £9.95 The author notes in his Introduction that this was ‘written with the aid of Anthroposophy….and seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of the post-Cold War world situation.’ The author’s assumptions are listed as: ‘The present is not only to he regarded as the outcome of … Read more
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing Stephen Marshall (Guerilla News Network, $13.22. Available from <> and <amazon.co.uk>) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein, (London: Allen Lane, £25.00) ‘When new (forms of capitalism) emerged in the past …they sparked a flood of analysis and debate about how such seismic shifts in the production … Read more
[…] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]
[…] all ‘democratic’ polarisation, a con via ballot-box. A con so wicked that citizens of a little town of Beslen will be expected to be grateful for ‘the vote’. Never mind that in 2004, Beslen’s children, parents and teachers paid the price of barbaric, corrupt, ‘democratic’ (!) Russian policies in Chechnya. A con so contemptuous […]
[…] New Right fear it is the masses, which they assume to be stupid proto-populists of the right. Thus they adopt the methods of Berlusconi to manage the vote instead of adopting the slower but much surer process of building a complex bottom-up culture of civil society built on locality, the civic centre, the trades […]
[…] win any important section of the working class to anti-imperialist positions, even where it is subjectively anti-capitalist. The situation in Northern Ireland highlights the urgency of doing so. If effective solidarity action is to be achieved, a considerable work of propaganda and demystification in Britain will be needed. VOTE LABOUR 7 Carlisle Street, London, W1
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made Labour … Read more
[…] its treasurer), Chatham House and Konigswinter with writing for the US Council for Foreign Relations journal Foreign Affairs. The Cambridge-educated Butler jointly authored with Neil Kinnock Why Vote Labour in 1979 and through the Fabian Society was deeply involved in the former Labour leader’s successful efforts to move the party away from unilateral nuclear […]