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End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
[PDF file]: […] Schuster, 2018). On p. 217 Turchin summarises Carlson’s position as accusing the Democrats of • becoming a party of the rich; • of supporting immigration because immigrants vote Democrat; • of supporting overseas military adventurism; • of attacking free speech; • of not taxing the wealthy or asking why working people are dying younger. […]
Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey
Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike
A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
[PDF file]: […] 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’ […]
Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike
Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites
[PDF file]: […] 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’.66 In 1975 Wilson’s ‘fear had become that I might be instrumental in forming a […]
The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973
[PDF file]: […] Chile apart from most other Latin American states.19 The electoral verdict was favourable: having come to power in November 1970 with 37 per cent of the popular vote, Congressional elections in March 1973 saw Popular Unity increase its share to 44 per cent.20 At the same time as his Popular Unity government was driving […]