[…] General Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), 1948-57; General Secretary 1957-64. John Raeburn, past Secretary of London Trades Council. (58) Phillip Fothergill, ex-President of the the Liberal Party. Admiral Lord Cunningham (who as Chief of Staff had in 1945 threatened Attlee with resignation over defence policy.) And a coterie of other retired senior […]
John Ross Common Courage Press Monroe, Maine, 2000, $15.95 (pb) (www.commoncouragepress.com) John Ross is the foremost chronicler, in English, of modern Mexican history. He is particularly knowledgeable about the Zapatista movement and its revolutionary forerunners. In addition to the very good The Annexation of Mexico – from the Aztecs to the IMF, about said country’s … Read more
[…] his subject and the economic sections of the book are inadequate. After 200 interviews Bower cannot decide if Brown is a labourist disguised as a neo- liberal or a politician who, like Harold Wilson in the famous Private Eye cartoon, faces both ways at once: to his party and the unions he comes […]
[…] only has this say about that relationship: ‘Healey shared, with a whole generation of Labour right-wingers from Hugh Gaitskell to Shirley Williams, a deep affinity with democratic liberal America’. (p. 156) This is true but it isn’t the point. In practice that ‘affinity’ led them to deal with, sometimes be funded and sponsored by, […]
For some time, the world’s secret services have been making use of loose structures parallel to the official clandestine hierarchies for their more controversial activities. Fred Holroyd’s revelations have shown how the British state employed Loyalist paramilitaries for kidnap and assassination operations in Eire, whilst the Irangate hearings have exposed what is, so far, the … Read more
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
[…] with Kenn Thomas for Steamshovel. I deeply resent Chip Berlet, Z Magazine, various books, that run stories that I am a Nazi. The problem is that the liberal press will not runs stories about what I do…. I’m an orthodox Jew. My mother and her whole family died in the Warsaw ghetto….To say I’m […]
[…] two world wars, etc? I believe he worshipped power and for him the global power of European culture meant that it must be right. He was a liberal and believed that liberalism belief in freedom, rights, democracy, equality of women was essentially a European idea, linked to a ‘European structure of mind’ […]
[…] the International Monetary Fund or encouraging the spread of Keynesian economics, was done in pursuit of causes which were inspired by what were in the 1940s mainstream liberal and socialist rather than Communist ideas. We cannot say that they were Stalinists at heart simply because they met Communist agents, since (a) what evidence we […]
[…] they included Alan Sked, who later split from it to launch the UK Independence Party. Sked, who began his political career as a parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Party in 1970, eventually left the UK Independence Party in 1998. He is an historian and published Britain’s Decline (1987) an extremely gloomy look at the […]
