[…] from all posts in the trade union movement of individuals with a record of past or present membership of Communist organisations’. (2) Later in the year, when coup speculation was more intense, the NF made clear that theirs was no ‘doctrinaire support of parliamentary government as an end in itself’, and that their answer […]
[…] transformed an old corporatist party engaged in industrial class war into a responsive modern European party of the democratic socialist Left. What actually happened was a ‘ coup du parti’ that chose immediate power over long-term sustainability. The democratic reform story is for another time. This memoir is only part of the story, of […]
[…] is that it has been prepared at least to encourage regulatory and legal (though not democratic) checks on its excesses. And all this has happened because a coup d’etat was mounted, scarcely registered by the wider population, within a secondary part of the total system – a political party – one that breached the […]
MI6 persuaded Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, to task them to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee … Read more
[…] Acland. In those days the ILP was still a force to be reckoned with on the left of the Labour Party and Smith’s move was quite a coup for Common Wealth. But as the cold war developed in the late 40’s Smith’s anti-Stalinism moved him sharply to right and he became fiercely anti-Soviet. Hulton […]
[…] virtually nil. Weiner also shows the Agency always lied to the politicians and the President, nominally its bosses, and was routinely involved in assassination in its various coup plots. So: incomplete and partial, yes; but also full of fascinating bits and pieces. In any other period of the history of the American empire this […]
[…] and then vanished again. But Irish press reports suggest that the bugging was merely one part of a complicated story which leads to a failed 1982 MI6 coup against then Prime Minister Charles Haughey. The story (Sunday News 25th March 1984) is long, complicated, and itself apparently based on press reports from the Irish […]
[…] physically, he tells us. Galloway also goes back a long way with Dennis MacShane, the Foreign Office minister who denounced Hugo Chavez during the short-lived and US-backed coup attempt on the Venezuelan leader. ‘Now I know a lot about Dennis MacShane,’ Galloway writes rather threateningly, ‘including the fact that he is not Dennis MacShane. […]
[…] in a story about casualties or incidents.’ A recent High Court case in which Teodoro Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea, unsuccessfully sued the companies behind the failed coup to overthrow him gives some insight into the murky world of mercenaries and their financial backers.(28) One well known name that keeps cropping up is that […]
[…] access to previously released documents: Popular Document Collection (Bay of Pigs reports; Atomic Spies-Rosenbergs; Oleg Penkovsky; Gary Powers; POW/MIA; Guatemala – chronicles CIA involvement in the 1954 coup; Human Rights in Latin America; UFOs). Your Rights – Public Rights of Access to CIA info, including the FOIA and electronic FOIA amendment; the Privacy Act; […]
