[PDF file]: […] work related to Northern Ireland, where Starmer helped overturn Socialist Alternative, including Starmer’s contributions, can still be found online. 2 2 British soldier Lee Clegg’s conviction for murder. (Clegg and his fellow Paratroopers had shot up a car of joy-riders in West Belfast, an incident in which seventeen–year–old Martin Peake and eighteen–year–old Karen Reilly […]
[PDF file]: […] had been democratically elected to power in 1970. Allende’s administration was replaced by the military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s regime was responsible for the murder of at least 3000 Chileans who had backed Allende, while thousands more were imprisoned and tortured and tens of thousands driven into exile. It was not […]
[PDF file]: […] point. John Gray in The New Statesman5 accuses Crais of parochialism in omitting the French revolution, as if a progressive cause couldn’t equally be guilty of mass murder and Terror. Similarly, he thinks the timeframe of 1750-1900 was constructed to exclude the Russian revolution and Mao. As if only capitalist exploitation can grow out […]
[PDF file]: […] months after Blair was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the […]
[…] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]
[…] work related to Northern Ireland, where Starmer helped overturn Socialist Alternative, including Starmer’s contributions, can still be found online. 2 2 British soldier Lee Clegg’s conviction for murder. (Clegg and his fellow Paratroopers had shot up a car of joy-riders in West Belfast, an incident in which seventeen–year–old Martin Peake and eighteen–year–old Karen Reilly […]
[…] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]
[PDF file]: […] their incompetence ‘Chairman Mark Milley and Centcom Commander Kenneth Mackenzie used a drone to execute seven children and thirteen innocent Afghan civilians. That’s not America. We don’t murder innocent children to cover our political asses’. (pp. 159, 163, 166). This suggests an astonishing ignorance of US conduct across much of the world over the […]
[PDF file]: […] especially in the US, is convinced that the persistence of slavery, genocide, and all the other elements of colonialism/imperialism in the US Empire were ‘unintentional’. The regular murder of Blacks by police in the US is not intentional. Lynching was never intentional. In a country whose official explanation for all economic injustice is the […]
[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.54 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]
