[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
Labour Party PLC David Osler Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, £15.99, 2002 Colin Challen MP Having written a history of Conservative Party funding, (1) I had been wondering when somebody would get round to doing a similar job on Labour. However, Labour Party plc is more than a simple history of party financing, it seeks to show … Read more
[…] 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
[…] that forces inside and outside the Conservative Party which were determined to get rid of me would seek to use the all-party coalition campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote as the nucleus of a movement for a coalition of the ‘centre’. Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power, (HarperCollins, London, 1995 p. 331 In 1975 Wilson’s […]
Colin Wallace and ‘Clockwork Orange 2’ In 1974, while working for the British Army’s Northern Ireland psy-ops unit, Information Policy, Wallace was asked (told) by an MI5 officer to work on a psy-ops project, ‘Clockwork Orange 2’. Wallace’s job spec. for CO2 was to produce a document, a first-hand narrative, apparently written by a supporter … Read more
[…] would rather we observed (in Davies’ analogy) gliding along like an elegant swan. Deference to the supposed superiority of Conservative statecraft may explain why many people still vote Tory. The Conservative claim to the state – to be the state – rests as much, if not more, on the interconnected nature of their party […]
[…] pp58,59 The Pike Report, as a result of having been leaked prematurely by a friendly or hostile source to the Village Voice was then suppressed by a vote of the House. Servadio pp258-259, 261; Laurent pp 244-257 David Atlee Phillips, The Night Watch (New York, Atheneum, 1977), pp 220-23; Church Committee, Hearings, Vol. 7 […]
