[PDF file]: […] point. John Gray in The New Statesman5 accuses Crais of parochialism in omitting the French revolution, as if a progressive cause couldn’t equally be guilty of mass murder and Terror. Similarly, he thinks the timeframe of 1750-1900 was constructed to exclude the Russian revolution and Mao. As if only capitalist exploitation can grow out […]
[…] work related to Northern Ireland, where Starmer helped overturn Socialist Alternative, including Starmer’s contributions, can still be found online. 2 2 British soldier Lee Clegg’s conviction for murder. (Clegg and his fellow Paratroopers had shot up a car of joy-riders in West Belfast, an incident in which seventeen–year–old Martin Peake and eighteen–year–old Karen Reilly […]
[PDF file]: […] their incompetence ‘Chairman Mark Milley and Centcom Commander Kenneth Mackenzie used a drone to execute seven children and thirteen innocent Afghan civilians. That’s not America. We don’t murder innocent children to cover our political asses’. (pp. 159, 163, 166). This suggests an astonishing ignorance of US conduct across much of the world over the […]
[PDF file]: […] had been democratically elected to power in 1970. Allende’s administration was replaced by the military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s regime was responsible for the murder of at least 3000 Chileans who had backed Allende, while thousands more were imprisoned and tortured and tens of thousands driven into exile. It was not […]
[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.54 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]
[…] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]
[…] their incompetence ‘Chairman Mark Milley and Centcom Commander Kenneth Mackenzie used a drone to execute seven children and thirteen innocent Afghan civilians. That’s not America. We don’t murder innocent children to cover our political asses’. (pp. 159, 163, 166). This suggests an astonishing ignorance of US conduct across much of the world over the […]
