[…] or the violence, such that it is, is specifically targeted against political and economic opponents. For example planning to blow up the cabinet as apart of a coup would be seen as political violence but not terrorism. The second main problem lies in the choice of the term ‘British Republic’. Firstly, because many of […]
[…] The document, marked CX95/53452 and UK SECRET/ DELICATE SOURCE/UK EYES ALPHA, is entitled ‘Libya: Plans to Overthrow Qadahfi in early 1996 are well advanced’. It describes a coup plot against Gadaffi and proves MI6 knowledge of the plot, via an agent codenamed Tunworth. Shayler had earlier claimed MI6 involvement in such a plot, and […]
[…] then. And rumour, repeated rumour has it that the Palace was involved in some of the ‘What is to be done about a British crisis – a coup?’ discussions which were taking place then. On February 25th Ken asked the Prime Minister “if she will make a statement on the present definition of national […]
Geoffrey Goodman London: Pluto Press, 2003 hb £18.99 As a conventional political memoir, this is quite an interesting read. The big figures march by: Bevan, Wilson, Callaghan, Healey, Robert Maxwell; and there are interesting stories about all of them. The best anecdote has Denis Healey, as Chancellor in the House of Commons in 1976, […]
[…] NY 14063, USA. According to Jules Archer’s book The Plot To Seize The White House (Hawthorn, NY, 1973), General McArthur was the first choice of a right-wing coup plot hatched by J.P. Morgan and other U.S.industrialists (DuPonts, Rockefellers and Mellons among them) who opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt. McArthur was President Roosevelt’s Military Chief of […]
[…] Healy) ended up adapting to Eurocommunism proclaiming Glasnost the political revolution predicted by Trotsky, etc., while the Spartacists and Sheila Torrence’s Newsline proclaimed the hard-line Stalinists and coup plotters of 1991 as the true Bolsheviks. This had previously been Rosa Luxembourg’s argument against Bornstein in Social Reform or Revolution. On globalisation theory being Stalinist: […]
[…] him to accept an invitation to visit Communist China so that he would be out of the country when our boy, General ‘Uncle Arthur’ Ankrah, staged his coup d’etat, and some months later when a computer we programmed to make astrological computations induced President Sukarno of Indonesia to make various moves which suited our […]
[…] in 1974, with private armies forming in the Home Counties, the British Army doing maneouvres at Heathrow and The Times discussing the conditions for a British military coup even then, when, had you believed the Daily Telegraph, the state itself was under threat from militant unions run by the Communist Party even then MI5 […]
[…] credited with spending millions of dollars on a Fijian grassroots cultural revival which has been a thin cover for the Tankei movement.” (US Involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat in Lobster 14) IDU is producing a magazine, Democracy International (Suite 48, Westminster Palace Garden, London SWIP IRR). The pilot issue appeared a few months […]
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by … Read more
