The Leveller’s and the mutinies. Curious as to whether there’s a battle to propose to Class Wargames, as a result of further thinking beyond my comments here.. It seems there was. Here are my notes which focus more on the politics now, rather than the military actions.
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I was pointed at this review of, Chris Bambery’s book The Second World War: A Marxist History (2014) which takes a different from normal view of the politics of the second world war; the story where the people’s of the last democracies in Europe united with the United States to fight its fascist blight. This…
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Mexico has a sad and long history, having finished Class Wargames, I am looking to pick up, “Mexico, a brief history”. Here are my other notes & links …
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I have been/am still reading Richard Barbrook’s book, “Class Wargames”. Among its many fascinating themes is his study of the collapse of democratic military forces into dictatorship.He name checks Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture & the Russian Revolution. I wonder why he didn’t start earlier with the English Civil War, it would seem to me to be…
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Introduction This is a suspended/abandoned project. It consists of a series of links aimed at capturing great oratory from Labour leaders. Harold Wilson Harold Wilson (Wikipedia) Harold Wilson’s Guardian Obituary Harold Wilson’s No 10 .gov page Neil Kinnock Neil Kinnock (Wikipedia) Niel Kinnock’s wikiquote page Google Neil Kinnock at the bbc Tony Blair Tony Blair…
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