See note(1) Very few notions generate as much intellectual resistance, hostility, and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies. Even when this belief is expressed in a very cautious manner, limited to specific and restricted contexts, supported by reliable evidence, and hedged about with all sort … Read more
Empires Apart: America And Russia From The Vikings To Iraq Brian Landers Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2009, £15, p/b Is America an empire? Tsarist Russia and its Soviet successor were certainly seen as such through western eyes. That America is not showing the heavily ideologised world through which we frame history. In a bold sweep … Read more
[…] M5S 1Al Covert Action Information Bulletin No.29 ($7, including airmail from PO Box 50272, Washington D.C. 20004) is largely devoted to recent events in the Pacific, the coup in Fiji being the chief focus. However, the single most interesting piece is an essay by Fred Landis showing the links between the CIA and the […]
[…] opposition to Sadam’s regime being replaced with praise of the ‘great revolutionary’ and his ‘non-capitalist’ country. (5) The NCP also announced its support for the attempted anti-Gorbachev coup of August 1991. At the time of writing the NCP appears to have thrown its lot in with China and North Korea. General Secretary Eric Trevett […]
[…] or the violence, such that it is, is specifically targeted against political and economic opponents. For example planning to blow up the cabinet as apart of a coup would be seen as political violence but not terrorism. The second main problem lies in the choice of the term ‘British Republic’. Firstly, because many of […]
[…] The document, marked CX95/53452 and UK SECRET/ DELICATE SOURCE/UK EYES ALPHA, is entitled ‘Libya: Plans to Overthrow Qadahfi in early 1996 are well advanced’. It describes a coup plot against Gadaffi and proves MI6 knowledge of the plot, via an agent codenamed Tunworth. Shayler had earlier claimed MI6 involvement in such a plot, and […]
[…] then. And rumour, repeated rumour has it that the Palace was involved in some of the ‘What is to be done about a British crisis – a coup?’ discussions which were taking place then. On February 25th Ken asked the Prime Minister “if she will make a statement on the present definition of national […]
Geoffrey Goodman London: Pluto Press, 2003 hb £18.99 As a conventional political memoir, this is quite an interesting read. The big figures march by: Bevan, Wilson, Callaghan, Healey, Robert Maxwell; and there are interesting stories about all of them. The best anecdote has Denis Healey, as Chancellor in the House of Commons in 1976, […]
[…] Healy) ended up adapting to Eurocommunism proclaiming Glasnost the political revolution predicted by Trotsky, etc., while the Spartacists and Sheila Torrence’s Newsline proclaimed the hard-line Stalinists and coup plotters of 1991 as the true Bolsheviks. This had previously been Rosa Luxembourg’s argument against Bornstein in Social Reform or Revolution. On globalisation theory being Stalinist: […]
[…] him to accept an invitation to visit Communist China so that he would be out of the country when our boy, General ‘Uncle Arthur’ Ankrah, staged his coup d’etat, and some months later when a computer we programmed to make astrological computations induced President Sukarno of Indonesia to make various moves which suited our […]
