Search Results for: Communist
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] case that JFK wanted to withdraw all U.S. military personnel as soon as was feasible, but that JFK had no intention of abandoning South Vietnam to a Communist takeover on his watch. And, yes, JFK was prepared to continue economic and military aid for many years. This will not be the last word on […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, lead to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]
Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne
Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State
[PDF file]: […] Marx’s second blind spot was failure to appreciate the power and significance of nationalism. His and Engels’ call for workers of the world to unite in The Communist Manifesto was based on the conviction that, even by the late 1840s, the international expansion of capitalism including the working class without which it could not […]
Tittle-tattle
[PDF file]: […] Sweet FA A rather lower level of punishment came the same week for Lord Triesman, the former New Labour Foreign Office minister under Tony Blair. The ex- communist multimillionaire, a close friend of New Labour fundraiser Lord Levy, and the party’s general secretary between 2001-3, had been appointed chairman of the Football Association in […]
Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman
[PDF file]: […] also significant. There was the planning for a Baltic expedition, without air cover, in the autumn of 1939; the attempt at turning the war into an anti- communist campaign in Finland a few months later; the disastrous failure in Norway that this produced (which, ironically, propelled Churchill to power); the diversion of forces from […]
Still thinking about Dallas
[…] Oswald owned a Mannlicher-Carcano; and as recent analysis seems to have confirmed, the photographs of him posing with the rifle and American left newspapers, both Trotskyist and Communist, were authentic (despite his claim that they had been faked).13 In his memoir Chauncey Holt tells us that, in the months before the assassination, the weapons […]
I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent
[PDF file]: […] of these being regarded as important to the future political balance of Europe. The role played by the US in swinging these elections away from the Italian Communist Party and toward the 40 Summer 2010 Vatican-aligned Christian Democrats was seen as a substantial early success for this initiative. Following this, however, the Truman administration […]
Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit by William Keegan
[PDF file]: […] on economic matters but seems to have fallen out of favour because his own large family was deemed offensive at the time of the ‘one-child’ policy. He also confirms that Harold Wilson was destabilised and made paranoid by rogue elements in the security forces who thought him a communist agent. But we all knew that.