The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne

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[PDF file]: […] weapons exports and military expenditure it still certainly is), then the Founding Fathers certainly intended a counter-revolution. When the dead US president, now beatified, spoke to the Conservative Political Action Conference two hundred and ten years later he said: ‘They are our brothers, these freedom fighters, and we owe them our help. I’ve spoken […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] told that some British Jews are preparing to leave the UK in the event of a Labour victory.28 But wait: that came from the Chairman of the Conservative Party and he was referring to people he claims to know. These comments (and there were many similar in the first week of the election campaign) […]

Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson

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[PDF file]: […] figures in the Parliamentary Labour Party at the time. Several are now members of Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet. or 4 2 election, but not Williamson. He lost to Conservative Amanda Solloway by 41 votes. The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, in which Williamson took a very active part, gave him a second bite […]

A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

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[PDF file]: […] reports, while lawyers provide litigation support. . . . What’s missing from those paragraphs (and the report generally) is the millions the Russians have given to the Conservative Party.4 Why is it missing? The Intelligence and Security Committee has a Conservative majority. Add those Russian millions to the more than ten million given to […]

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[…] and former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too? Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as ‘Corbynism with a union jack’. It isn’t true, of course, at least not yet: Nigel Farage is no Corbynista. […]

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[…] or dismiss the majority of its board — was Morgan McSweeney . . . McSweeney was also a director of Labour Together, a group formed as a conservative counterweight to the rise of Corbyn. As the Canary pointed out both the CCDH and Labour Together share the same address. McSweeney has now been appointed […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

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[PDF file]: […] his side kick Andy Wigmore (business interests in Belize), this seems an avenue at least worth exploring.16 As does Arron Banks’ October 2014 switch from being a Conservative donor to funding UKIP. When doing this, though, Banks and his colleagues were arriving late at the party. Sir Jack Hayward, the most prominent UK exponent […]

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[…] or dismiss the majority of its board — was Morgan McSweeney . . . McSweeney was also a director of Labour Together, a group formed as a conservative counterweight to the rise of Corbyn. As the Canary pointed out both the CCDH and Labour Together share the same address. McSweeney has now been appointed […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] serve five years in prison for handling £440,000, allegedly part of a vast fortune stolen from Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it […]

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