[PDF file]: […] indeed complicit, in a protracted massacre. The British response to Goldstone By the time Operation Cast Lead was carried out, Gordon Brown had replaced Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. Brown was absolutely committed to supporting Israel and to keeping in step with the United States but, at least initially, seems to have been […]
[…] the Hertfordshire Health Authority from 1998 to 2001 and also on the board of the National Council for One Parent Families. In 1999 she was made a Labour peer by the Revd. Blair who had been introduced to her by her husband Peter Kellner, the former chairman and now president of YouGov.13 In June […]
[PDF file]: […] throw light on this still largely hidden history. With family roots in both South Africa and Israel, he worked up the book in what reads like a labour of love from his Oxford doctorate. His investigative methods are a model combination of historical perspective, extensive archival research in an area ‘where information and disinformation […]
[PDF file]: […] we shall ever know the scale of British complicity in this crime. There is also the determination of retired generals and politicians from both the Conservative and Labour parties to cover up the reality of the war in Afghanistan. Without any shame whatsoever, the war was portrayed as being about the protection and extension […]
[…] interfere.’ Thus the opening paragraph by Kim Sengupta in his review of the Mark Curtis 26 book, Secret Affairs. I wrote about political contamination in ‘Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites’ in Lobster 33. 25 26 10 Community? Whatever that means! Can you think of anything more vague or more useless? Grauniadia […]
[…] are over consuming and a shift in the direction of innovative activity. At the global level, too much of the world’s innovation has been directed at saving labour and too little at saving natural resources and protecting the environment – hardly surprising given that prices do not reflect the sacristy of natural resources. There […]
[PDF file]: […] anything); a focus on monopoly not ownership as the root fault in capitalism; and a scepticism about democracy and emphasis on leadership. This dovetailed with the emerging Labour revisionism in the 1950s and Kelly notes how Flanders found the elite, factional atmosphere of the Campaign for Democratic 1 Flanders’ reputation fell with the collapse […]
[PDF file]: New Labour, Human Rights and the Rule of Law K. D. Ewing Oxford and New York: OUP, £19.99 The Meaning of David Cameron Richard Seymour New Alresford: Zero Books, £6.99 The Return of the Public Dan Hind London and New York: Verso, £14.99 Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges New York: Nation Books, […]
[PDF file]: New Labour, Human Rights and the Rule of Law K. D. Ewing Oxford and New York: OUP, £19.99 The Meaning of David Cameron Richard Seymour New Alresford: Zero Books, £6.99 The Return of the Public Dan Hind London and New York: Verso, £14.99 Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges New York: Nation Books, […]
[PDF file]: […] USA in the 1930s. What becomes clear is that, while sections of the US capitalist class had no problem with using some of these groups against the labour movement, they never had any intention of subordinating themselves to them. A strong fascist state, indeed a strong domestic state of any description, was never and […]
