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Labour Affairs Magazine

Journal of the Ernest Bevin Society

  • A) Editorials
    • 2020 12 – 2nd Editorial: An Opportunity for Labour
    • 2020 12 – Editorial: Starmer to Purge the Labour Party?
    • 2021 02 – Reclaim the State (Editorial)
  • B) Latest Issues
    • 2019 10 – Magazine
      • 2019 10 – News From France
      • 2019 10 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 10 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2019 11 – Magazine
      • 2019 11 – Mao’s Economic Success
      • 2019 11 – News From France
      • 2019 11 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 11 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2019 12 – Magazine
      • 2019 12 – News From France
      • 2019 12 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 12 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2020 02 – Magazine
      • 2020 02 – Labour Gained The Young Discontented
      • 2020 02 – Many Different Jewish Voices
      • 2020 02 – News From France
      • 2020 02 – Newsnotes
      • 2020 02 – Parliamentary Notes
      • 2020 20 – Jews Rejecting Attacks on Labour
    • 2020 03 – Magazine
      • 2020 03 – IRA More Moral Than the British Army
      • 2020 03 – News From France
      • 2020 03 – Newsnotes
      • 2020 03 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2020 04 – Magazine
      • 2020 04 – Slow Government Reactions to Covid-19
      • 2020 04 – Social Ties and Covid-19
      • 2020 04 Editorial – A Budget Fit For A Keynes?
      • 2020 04 – News From France
      • 2020 04 – Newsnotes
      • 2020 04 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2020 05 – Magazine
      • 2020 05 – News From France
    • 2020 06 – Magazine
      • 2020 06 – News From France
      • 2020 06 – Newsnotes
    • 2020 08 Magazine
      • 2020 08 – Fear of China
      • 2020 08 – Guaranteeing an Apprenticeship Guarantee
      • 2020 08 – Labour Party Report on the Defeat in 2019
      • 2020 08 – Leaked Labour Party Report on Anti-semitism
      • 2020 08 – Letters on Churchill and Fascism
      • 2020 08 – Poems
    • 2020 08 – Magazine
      • 2020 08 – News From France
      • 2020 08 – Newsnotes
      • 2020 09 – Tax and Spend Again
    • 2020 09 – Magazine
    • 2020 10 – Magazine
    • 2020 11 – Magazine
  • C) Past Issues
    • 2018 02 – Magazine
      • 2018 02 – British Trade Unionists in the Soviet Union in 1925 (2)
      • 2018 02 – Comment on Carillion
      • 2018 02 – Editorial – What A Carry On, Carillion
      • 2018 02 – Labour and Local Government
      • 2018 02 – Letter From New Zealand
      • 2018 02 – News from Italy
      • 2018 02 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2018 02 – the crisis of German Social Democracy
      • 2018 02 – News From France
      • 2018 02 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 02 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2018 03 – Magazine
      • 2018 03 – British Trade Unionists in the Soviet Union in 1925 (3)
      • 2018 03 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
      • 2018 03 – News from Italy
      • 2018 03 – News From New Zealand
      • 2018 03 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2018 03 Editorial – Labour’s Poisoned Chalice
      • 2018 03 – News From France
      • 2018 03 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 03 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2018 04 – Magazine
      • 2018 04 – Editorial – Nerve Gas Attack
      • 2018 04 – Foot Soldier
      • 2018 04 – News from New Zealand
      • 2018 04 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2018 04 – Poems
      • 2018 04 – Russia and the Nerve Gas Attack
      • 2018 04 – the 1986 Print Workers Dispute
      • 2018 04 – News From France
      • 2018 04 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 04 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2018 05 – Magazine
      • 2018 05 – Britain’s Guilt in Syria
      • 2018 05 – Fewer Anti-Semites in Labour than Tories
      • 2018 05 – Foot Soldier
      • 2018 05 – Memories of a Communist Building Worker
      • 2018 05 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2018 05 – Tax Evasion by the Rich
      • 2018 05 -News from Italy
      • 2018 05 2nd Editorial – Labour Foreign Policy
      • 2018 05 Editorial – Labour Falsely Accused
      • 2018 05 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 05 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2018 06 – Magazine
      • 2018 06 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
      • 2018 06 – Editorial – Ken Livingstone
      • 2018 06 – Letter From New Zealand
      • 2018 06 – News from Italy
      • 2018 06 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2018 06 – News From France
      • 2018 06 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 06 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2018 07 – Magazine
      • 2018 07 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
      • 2018 07 – News from Italy
      • 2018 07 – News from New Zealand
      • 2018 07 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2018 07 – Poems
      • 2018 07 – Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
      • 2018 07 Editorial – Funding the NHS
      • 2018 07 – News From France
      • 2018 07 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 07 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2018 09 – Magazine
      • 2018 09 – ‘New Labour’ Plot Against the NHS (1)
      • 2018 09 – Corbyn, Labour and anti-Semitism
      • 2018 09 – definitions of antisemitism
      • 2018 09 – Labour’s Defence Policy
      • 2018 09 – Letter From New Zealand
      • 2018 09 – News from Italy
      • 2018 09 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2018 09 – Poems
      • 2018 09 – Reply to Mark Cowling
      • 2018 09 Editorial – Democratic Reforms
      • 2018 09 – News From France
      • 2018 09 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 09 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2018 10 – Magazine
      • 2018 10 – Antisemitism in the Labour Party
      • 2018 10 – Corbyn Foot Soldier
      • 2018 10 – Industrial Schools
      • 2018 10 – Kaufman on Gaza, Palestine & Israel
      • 2018 10 – New Labour undermined the NHS (2)
      • 2018 10 – New Zealand
      • 2018 10 – News From Italy
      • 2018 10 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2018 10 – Plan for a New Economy
      • 2018 10 – Poems
      • 2018 10 Editorial – Corbyn Gains Authority
      • 2018 10 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 10 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2018 11 – Magazine
      • 2018 11 – ‘Black ’47’ – film about the Irish Potato Famine
      • 2018 11 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
      • 2018 11 – Extreme Weather in Italy
      • 2018 11 – Letter from Our New Zealand
      • 2018 11 – New Labour and the NHS (3 of 3)
      • 2018 11 – Parliament And World War One – June 1918
      • 2018 11 – Poems
      • 2018 11 – US Military Planning (book review)
      • 2018 11 Editorial – Brexit’s Troublesome 5%
      • 2018 11 – News From France
      • 2018 11 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 11 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2018 12 – Magazine
      • 2018 12 – Brexit Options
      • 2018 12 – New Zealand News
      • 2018 12 – News from Italy
      • 2018 12 – NHS Articles – Correction
      • 2018 12 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2018 12 – the 1973 coup in Chile
      • 2018 12 – The BBC, the First World War and the Germans
      • 2018 12 – Underlying Brexit Issues
      • 2018 12 Editorial – Brexit Renegotiations
      • 2018 12 – News From France
      • 2018 12 – Newsnotes
      • 2018 12 – Parliamentary Notes 1 – Mrs May
      • 2018 12 – Parliamentary Notes 2 – Legal Position
    • 2019 02 – Magazine
      • 2019 02 – Corbyn Foot Soldier
      • 2019 02 – Labour and Education
      • 2019 02 – News from Italy
      • 2019 02 – News from New Zealand
      • 2019 02 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2019 02 – Poem
      • 2019 02 – Popular Protests in 1950s Belfast
      • 2019 02 – tribute to Max Levitas, British Communist
      • 2019 02 Editorial – Brexit and Brussels
      • 2019 02 – News From France
      • 2019 02 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 02 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2019 03 – Magazine
      • 2019 03 – 1919 (poem)
      • 2019 03 – Diary of a Corbyn Foot Soldier
      • 2019 03 – Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
      • 2019 03 – Jews on Zionism & Socialism
      • 2019 03 – Letter on Education
      • 2019 03 – Letter on School Performance
      • 2019 03 – News from Italy
      • 2019 03 – News from New Zealand
      • 2019 03 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2019 03 – The Economy And Brexit
      • 2019 03 Editorial – Labour’s ‘Independent Group’
      • 2019 03 – News From France
      • 2019 03 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 03 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2019 04 – Magazine
      • 2019 04 – Anxious Citizen of the Digital State
      • 2019 04 – In the Shadow of Grenfell
      • 2019 04 – Labour And Higher Education
      • 2019 04 – Letter on Education
      • 2019 04 – Mark Cowling on anti-Semitism
      • 2019 04 – News from Italy
      • 2019 04 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2019 04 – Reply To Mark Cowling
      • 2019 04 – Rexit (poem)
      • 2019 04 – Stroud Green Branch Forum on Anti-Semitism
      • 2019 04 – Trade Unionism and ‘In Place of Strife’
      • 2019 04 -Diary of a Corbyn Foot Soldier
      • 2019 04 -Letter to The Guardian on Margaret Hodge – Not Published
      • 2019 04 Editorial – Last Throw Of The Dice?
      • 2019 04 – News From France
      • 2019 04 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 04 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2019 05 – Magazine
      • 2019 05 – Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party
      • 2019 05 – Diary of a Corbyn Foot Soldier
      • 2019 05 – Labour and Education Policy
      • 2019 05 – Letter from New Zealand
      • 2019 05 – News from Italy
      • 2019 05 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2019 05 – Poems
      • 2019 05 Editorial – Anger Over Brexit
      • 2019 05 – News From France
      • 2019 05 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 05 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2019 06 – Magazine
      • 2019 06 – Antisemitism in the Labour Party
      • 2019 06 – Farage and Italian Politics
      • 2019 06 – Labour and Israel
      • 2019 06 – News from Italy
      • 2019 06 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2019 06 – Poems
      • 2019 06 – private utility monopolies
      • 2019 06 Editorial – May as Victim of Brexit
      • 2019 06 – News From France
      • 2019 06 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 06 – Parliamentary Notes
    • 2019 07 – Magazine
      • 2019 07 – Anti-Irishism in Labour
      • 2019 07 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
      • 2019 07 – Letter from New Zealand
      • 2019 07 – Modern Monetary Theory
      • 2019 07 – News from Italy
      • 2019 07 – Parliament And World War One
      • 2019 07 – Poems
      • 2019 07 – Review of Tory Brexit ideas
      • 2019 07 Editorial – Boris Johnson our next PM?
      • 2019 07 – News From France
      • 2019 07 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 07 – Parliamentary Notes
      • Israel Taking Too Much
    • 2019 09 – Magazine
      • 2019 09 – Diary of a Corbyn Foot Soldier
      • 2019 09 – Is the Labour Party Anti-Semitic?
      • 2019 09 – Jewish Voice for Labour
      • 2019 09 – News from Italy
      • 2019 09 – News from New Zealand
      • 2019 09 – Poems
      • 2019 09 – Reader’s Letter on Antisemitism
      • 2019 09 – Rethinking Socialism
      • 2019 09 – Unite union on Tom Watson
      • 2019 09 Editorial – Brexit Regardless Of Suffering
      • 2019 09 – 300th issue of our magazine
      • 2019 09 – News From France
      • 2019 09 – Newsnotes
      • 2019 09 – Parliament and World War One
      • 2019 09 – Parliamentary Notes
    • A) Editorials
      • 2019 10 Editorial – Labour Handling Brexit
      • 2019 11 Editorial – the British General Election
      • 2019 12 Editorial -Hopes for the Election
      • 2020 01 – The Brexit Defeat
        • Labour’s Lost Seats – Causes
        • Labour’s Vote Held Up in the 2019 Defeat
      • 2020 02 Editorial – The Route To Labour’s Leader
      • 2020 03 Editorial – Labour’s Craven Candidates
      • 2020 05 Editorial –Labour’s Internal War
        • 2020 05 Newsnotes
        • 2020 05 – Political Theory in Responding to Covid-19
        • Covid-19: Missouri’s Lawsuit Against China
      • 2020 06 Editorial – Starmer Under Fire
        • 2020 06 – Baby Boomers and Modern Politics
        • 2020 06 – How Covid-19 Was Recognised
      • 2020 07 Editorial 1 – Starmer Sacks Rebecca Long-Bailey
      • 2020 07 Editorial 2 – Brexit, Covid-19 And Labour’s Task
      • 2020 08 Editorial – is the Tory Government a Russian Fifth Column?
      • 2020 09 Editorial – A Clause 4 Moment
      • 2020 10 Editorial – A Dishonourable Start
      • 2020 11 Editorial – Corbyn Suspended
      • 2020 11 Editorial – The Deficit Myth
      • 2021 04 Editorial – National Debt is Irrelevant
    • Before 2018
      • 2000 to 2009 – Magazine
        • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
        • Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocrisy
        • Does the ‘Right Stuff’ exist?
        • Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
        • Fukuyama on History after the Gulf War
        • Genius and other mental abnormalities
        • How the British Empire Blighted Britain
        • How Tibet Emerged Within the Wider Chinese Power-Political Zone.
        • Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
        • Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
        • Needless Suffering in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine
        • Pascal, the Jesuits and Plato
        • Raymond Williams in World War Two
        • Reflections on the Start of the Iraq War
        • Slavery in the British Empire
        • Sociocide – Liberalism’s True History
        • The Anglosphere in 2004 (Anticipating Brexit)
        • The Enlightenment’s Limited Light
        • The many versions of democracy
        • The original guerillas of Spain
        • The Trotskyist Origins of US Neo-Cons
        • The World View behind the 2003 Gulf War
        • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
        • Why the Left lost the Spanish Civil War
      • 2010 to 2013 – Magazine
        • 2000 03 Editorial
        • 2000 03 Newsnotes
        • 2000 08 Leading Article
        • 2009 – Socialism, Inequality and Health
        • 2009 – the UK’s economic imbalance
        • 2012 – Labour Affairs PDFs
        • 2013 – Labour Affairs PDFs
        • 2013 12 – Magazine
          • 2013 12 – Construction Safety
          • 2013 12 – East London and The Mosque
          • 2013 12 – Editorial
          • 2013 12 – Froggy: News From Across The Channel
          • 2013 12 – Ireland and Irish Americans
          • 2013 12 – It’s A Fact
          • 2013 12 – Notes On The News
          • 2013 12 – Parliament Notes
          • 2013 12 – Revitalising Social Europe
          • 2014 01 – Palestine and the International Criminal Court
        • Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
        • Classes in Britain in 2011
        • Everyone and Anyone are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
        • Evolution Prevented By Competition
        • How John Stuart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
        • Market Minorities Across the World
        • Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
        • Minterism: an English Vanity
        • The many versions of democracy
        • The Usefulness of Group Thinking
        • Why Trotsky’s politics achieved nothing solid
      • 2014 Magazine
        • 2014 01 – Magazine
          • 2014 01 – Britain’s Economy
          • 2014 01 – British Public Misled
          • 2014 01 – Editorial
          • 2014 01 – Froggy
          • 2014 01 – It’s A Fact
          • 2014 01 – Letter about Alex Sayle
          • 2014 01 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 01 – Parliament Notes
          • 2014 01 – Unifying South Africa
        • 2014 02 – Magazine
          • 2014 02 – British Economy
          • 2014 02 – Editorial
          • 2014 02 – Froggy
          • 2014 02 – It’s A Fact
          • 2014 02 – Letter on BBC Reporting World News
          • 2014 02 – Manufacturing in Britain
          • 2014 02 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 02 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2014 02 – Real Jobs
          • 2014 02 – The Entrepreneurial State
        • 2014 03 – Magazine
          • 2014 03 – America’s Euro-Colonies
          • 2014 03 – Editorial
          • 2014 03 – Froggy
          • 2014 03 – It’s A Fact
          • 2014 03 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 03 – Parliament Notes
          • 2014 03 – poem
          • 2014 03 – Radical Rightists of 1979
          • 2014 03 – UK should imitate Germany
          • 2014 03 – Wealthy Pay Less Tax
          • 2014 03 – Welsh Water
        • 2014 04 – Magazine
          • 2014 04 – Against Glorifying World War One
          • 2014 04 – Bob Crow: A Tribute
          • 2014 04 – Editorial
          • 2014 04 – Froggy
          • 2014 04 – It’s A Fact
          • 2014 04 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 04 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2014 04 – Parliament Notes
          • 2014 04 – poem about Crimea
          • 2014 04 – The Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union
          • 2014 04 – the Secession of Crimea
          • 2014 04 – Tory Pension Plans
          • 2014 04 – Workers on company boards
          • 2014 04 Parliament in World War One
        • 2014 05 – Magazine
          • 2014 05 – Bringing on World War Three (poem)
          • 2014 05 – defending the National Health Service
          • 2014 05 – Editorial
          • 2014 05 – Froggy
          • 2014 05 – It’s a Fact
          • 2014 05 – Listening to Italy
          • 2014 05 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 05 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2014 05 – Parliament Notes
          • 2014 05 – The London Underground Dispute
        • 2014 06 – Magazine
          • 2014 06 – Editorial
          • 2014 06 – Froggy
          • 2014 06 – It’s A Fact
          • 2014 06 – Listening to Italy
          • 2014 06 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 06 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2014 06 – Parliament Notes
        • 2014 07 – Magazine
          • 2014 07 – Editorial
          • 2014 07 – Froggy
          • 2014 07 – It’s A Fact
          • 2014 07 – News from Italy
          • 2014 07 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 07 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2014 07 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2014 07 – Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
          • 2014 07 – Tory Plans for Pensions
        • 2014 09 – Magazine
          • 2014 09 – Editorial
          • 2014 09 – Italian Politics
          • 2014 09 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 09 – the TUC and Industrial Democracy
          • 2014 09 – What’s Happening In France
          • 2104 09 – It’s a Fact
          • 2104 09 – Parliament
        • 2014 10 – Magazine
          • 2014 10 – Editorial
          • 2014 10 – In Situ (poem)
          • 2014 10 – It’s a Fact
          • 2014 10 – News From France
          • 2014 10 – News from Italy
          • 2014 10 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 10 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2014 10 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2014 10 – Tory Promises and the Scottish Referendum
        • 2014 11 – Magazine
          • 2014 11 – Failing in Afghanistan (poem)
          • 2014 11 – Froggy
          • 2014 11 – Listen to Italy
          • 2014 11 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 11 – November Editorial
          • 2014 11 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2014 11 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2014 11 – Poppies and Butcher Haig (poem)
          • 2014 11 – Tories and Human Rights
        • 2014 12 – Magazine
          • 2014 12 – Dumb Insolence (poem)
          • 2014 12 – Editorial
          • 2014 12 – Froggy
          • 2014 12 – Listening to Italy
          • 2014 12 – Newsnotes
          • 2014 12 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2014 12 – Parliamentary Notes
      • 2015 Magazine
        • 2015 – Magazine (2)
        • 2015 02 – Magazine
          • 2015 02 – February Editorial
          • 2015 02 – Froggy
          • 2015 02 – Letter on Small Business
          • 2015 02 – Liberté Egalité Fraternité (poem)
          • 2015 02 – Listening to Italy
          • 2015 02 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 02 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2015 02 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2015 02 – Plastered of Paris (poem)
        • 2015 03 – Magazine
          • 2015 03 – Creating Good Jobs
          • 2015 03 – Froggy
          • 2015 03 – Is This The Way To Armageddon
          • 2015 03 – Jobs in London
          • 2015 03 – Letter from Italy
          • 2015 03 – March Editorial
          • 2015 03 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 03 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2015 03 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2015 03 – Small Big Men
        • 2015 04 – Magazine
          • 2015 04 – Editorial
          • 2015 04 – Fascists and Anti-Fascists (poem)
          • 2015 04 – Froggy
          • 2015 04 – Italy
          • 2015 04 – Jihad’s Other God
          • 2015 04 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 04 – Parliament
          • 2015 04 – Sleepy Hollow (poem)
          • 2015 04 – Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
          • 2015 04 – Parliament and World War One
        • 2015 05 – Magazine
          • 2015 05 – Editorial
          • 2015 05 – Froggy
          • 2015 05 – Italy
          • 2015 05 – letter on Liberalism
          • 2015 05 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 05 – Osborne’s pension plans
          • 2015 05 – Parliament and World War One
          • 2015 05 – Poem on the latest Royal Birth
          • 2015 05 – Spain’s Mondragon Cooperatives
          • 2015 05 – Tweedledum (poem)
          • 2015 05 – Unemployment (poem)
          • 2015 05 – Workplace Learning
        • 2015 06 – Magazine
          • 2015 06 – British General Election Key Seats
          • 2015 06 – Froggy
          • 2015 06 – Italy
          • 2015 06 – Mondragon (2)
          • 2015 06 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 06 – Parliament and World War One
          • 2015 06 – Parliament Notes
          • 2015 06 – Power Imbalances in the Workplace
          • 2015 06 – Rampant Criminalisation (poem)
          • 2015 06 Editorial – Election Mythology
        • 2015 07 – Magazine
          • 2015 07 – Editorial – Looking For A Leader
          • 2015 07 – Froggy
          • 2015 07 – Human Rights in the UK
          • 2015 07 – Italy
          • 2015 07 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 07 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2015 07 – Parliament Notes
          • 2015 07 – Streetwise (poem)
          • 2015 07 – Tears Without Boundaries (poem)
          • 2015 07 – Ukraine Illegally Removed Its Elected President
        • 2015 09 – Magazine
          • 2015 09 – Editorial – What is a Real Opposition?
          • 2015 09 – News from Italy
          • 2015 09 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 09 – Parliament and World War One
          • 2015 09 – News From France
          • 2015 09 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2015 10 – Magazine
          • 2015 10 – Corbyn and NATO
          • 2015 10 – Editorial – All Shook Up
          • 2015 10 – Industrial Relations
          • 2015 10 – News From Italy
          • 2015 10 – Normal Service (poem)
          • 2015 10 – Strident (poem)
          • 2015 10 – Wasting the Workforce’s Talents
          • 2015 10 – What Is Sauce (poem)
          • 2015 10 -Parliament And World War One
          • 2015 10 – News From France
          • 2015 10 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 10 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2015 11 – Magazine
          • 2015 11 – Consumerism and Inequality
          • 2015 11 – First Let It Be Human (poem)
          • 2015 11 – It Wasn’t Me, Mister (poem
          • 2015 11 – Labour Left, Right or Centre
          • 2015 11 – News from Italy
          • 2015 11 – nuclear deterrence
          • 2015 11 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2015 11 – Who Started World War Two?
          • 2015 11 Editorial
          • 2015 11 – News From France
          • 2015 11 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 11 – Parliamentary Notes (1)
          • 2015 11 – Parliamentary Notes (2)
        • 2015 12 – Magazine
          • 2015 12 – Bombing ISIL in Syria
          • 2015 12 – Corbyn, An Honest Englishman
          • 2015 12 – Editorial 1 – A Thinking Labour Party
          • 2015 12 – Existing State Of Things (poem)
          • 2015 12 – Letter on Assisted Dying
          • 2015 12 – National Dementia (poem)
          • 2015 12 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2015 12 Editorial 2 – Osborne’s Sleight Of Hand
          • 2015 12 – News From France
          • 2015 12 – Newsnotes
          • 2015 12 – Parliamentary Notes
      • 2016 Magazine
        • 2016 02 – Magazine
          • 2016 02 – Bombing Syria: Letters From MPs
          • 2016 02 – Corbyn’s Voting Record
          • 2016 02 – Guernica Still Burns (poem)
          • 2016 02 – Military Lobying
          • 2016 02 – News From Italy
          • 2016 02 – NHS – No Hounding Socialism (poem)
          • 2016 02 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2016 02 – Prime Minister’s Question Time (poem)
          • 2016 02 – Rail, Rents, and Housing (part 1)
          • 2016 02 – Welfare And Work Reform Bill
          • 2016 02 – News From France
          • 2016 02 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2016-02 Editorial – Hilary Benn & Syrian Bombing
        • 2016 03 – Magazine
          • 2016 03 – Banning Bertrand Russell
          • 2016 03 – crimes of European Imperialism
          • 2016 03 – Editorial – Brexit
          • 2016 03 – Family Poverty
          • 2016 03 – Gurkhas
          • 2016 03 – Housing Part 2
          • 2016 03 – NATO causing more violence
          • 2016 03 – news from Italy
          • 2016 03 – speech by Jeremy Corbyn
          • 2016 03 – Thank You For Self-Harming (poem)
          • 2016 03 – News From France
          • 2016 03 – Newsnotes
          • 2016 03 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2016 04 – Magazine
          • 2016 04 – Britain and Greece in World War One
          • 2016 04 – Editorial – Schools as Academies
          • 2016 04 – Gone West (poem)
          • 2016 04 – Ian Duncan Smith resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary
          • 2016 04 – more on the Ghurkha
          • 2016 04 – News from Italy
          • 2016 04 – Social Cleansing (poem)
          • 2016 04 – Trade Unions & Industrial Democracy
          • 2016 04 – News From France
          • 2016 04 – Newsnotes
          • 2016 04 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2016 05 – Magazine
          • 2016 05 – Corbyn Accused
          • 2016 05 – Jews Denying ‘Labour Antisemitism’
          • 2016 05 – Justice for Hillsborough
          • 2016 05 – Life of a Labour Activist
          • 2016 05 – News from Italy
          • 2016 05 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2016 05 – Poems
          • 2016 05 – The European Union Referendum Revisited
          • 2016 05 – News From France
          • 2016 05 – Newsnotes
          • 2016 05 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2016-05-Editorial: Steel in Britain and Germany
        • 2016 06 – Magazine
          • 2016 06 – Brexit
          • 2016 06 – Corbyn’s Heavy Burden
          • 2016 06 – Labour and Anti-Semitism
          • 2016 06 – Labour Party campaigning
          • 2016 06 – News from Italy
          • 2016 06 – Parliament and World War One
          • 2016 06 – Poems
          • 2016 06 – the Fate of Israel
          • 2016 06 – News From France
          • 2016 06 – Newsnotes
          • 2016 06 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2016 07 – Magazine
          • 2016 07 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2016 07 – Divisive Politics
          • 2016 07 – How to Elect a Labour Leader
          • 2016 07 – Labour and Antisemitism
          • 2016 07 – Labour and Northern Ireland
          • 2016 07 – News From Italy
          • 2016 07 – poems
          • 2016 07 -Parliament And World War One
          • 2016 07 – News From France
          • 2016 07 – Newsnotes
          • 2016 07 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2016 09 – Magazine
          • 2016 09 – 1917 debates on the Labour Party and the war
          • 2016 09 – a Corbyn foot-soldier on Labour’s Rule Book
          • 2016 09 – MPs Voting For the Iraq War
          • 2016 09 – Poems
          • 2016 09 – Waste Processing in Italy
          • 2016 09 – Welfare Reform Vote
          • 2016 09 – What Tony Blair did to the Labour Party
          • 2016 09 Editorial
          • 2016 09 – News From France
          • 2016 09 – Newsnotes
          • 2016 09 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2016 10 – Magazine
          • 2016 10 – Dark Deeds By The River Of January (poem)
          • 2016 10 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2016 10 – News from Italy
          • 2016 10 – Newsnotes
          • 2016 10 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2016 10 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2016 10 – Tony Blair – power, money and scandals
          • 2016 10 – Tories & Grammar Schools
          • 2016 10 -News From France
          • 2016 10 Editorial
        • 2016 11 – Magazine
          • 2016 11 – Apple Avoiding Taxes
          • 2016 11 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2016 11 – Immigration & the labour market
          • 2016 11 – News From Italy
          • 2016 11 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2016 11 – The Battle Of Cable Street
          • 2016 11 – White Cotton (poem)
          • 2016 11 Editorial
          • 2016 11 – Newsnotes
          • 2016 11 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2016 12 – Magazine
          • 2016 12 – Antisemitism in the UK
          • 2016 12 – Degraded Globalisation
          • 2016 12 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2016 12 – Don’t Cryogenic Me (poem)
          • 2016 12 – Free Speech On Israel
          • 2016 12 – News from Italy
          • 2016 12 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2016 12 – Richmond Park by-election
          • 2016 12 – UK manufacturing declining
          • 2016 12 – worker representation on company boards
          • 2016 12 Editorial – Corbyn’s Performance
          • 2016 12 – News From France
          • 2016 12 – Newsnotes
          • 2016 12 – Parliamentary Notes
      • 2017 Magazine
        • 2017 02 – Magazine
          • 2017 02 – Charities and Organiser Salaries
          • 2017 02 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2017 02 – news from Italy
          • 2017 02 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 02 – poems
          • 2017 02 – Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin (Part 1)
          • 2017 02 Editorial – Brexit
          • 2017 02 – News From France
          • 2017 02 – Newsnotes
          • 2017 02 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2017 03 – Magazine
          • 2017 03 – obituary for Gerald Kaufman
          • 2017 03 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2017 03 – Editorial- Testing Time for Corbyn
          • 2017 03 – News from France
          • 2017 03 – news from Italy
          • 2017 03 – Newsnotes
          • 2017 03 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 03 – Parliament Notes
          • 2017 03 – poems
          • 2017 03 – Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin (2)
        • 2017 04 – Magazine
          • 2017 04 – Brexit (Triggering Article 50)
          • 2017 04 – Editorial – Labour’s Timid Tendency
          • 2017 04 – Labour Party Industrial Strategy
          • 2017 04 – News From France
          • 2017 04 – News from Italy
          • 2017 04 – Newsnotes
          • 2017 04 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 04 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2017 04 – Poems
          • 2017 04 – workers on company boards
        • 2017 05 – Magazine
          • 2017 05 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2017 05 – Editorial – Trusting Theresa May
          • 2017 05 – Ken Livingstone Not Antisemitic
          • 2017 05 – Labour has the Young Voters
          • 2017 05 – News From Italy
          • 2017 05 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 05 – Poems
          • 2017 05 – News From France
          • 2017 05 – Newsnotes
          • 2017 05 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2017 06 – Magazine
          • 2017 06 – Corbyn and Boris Johnson on Foreign Policy
          • 2017 06 – Corbyn on Foreign Policy
          • 2017 06 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2017 06 – Do the Richest 5% Earn It?
          • 2017 06 – News From Italy
          • 2017 06 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 06 – Poems
          • 2017 06 – Editorial – Corbyn’s Comeback
          • 2017 06 – News From France
          • 2017 06 – Newsnotes
        • 2017 07 – Magazine
          • 2017 07 – All Corbynites Now
          • 2017 07 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2017 07 – News from Italy
          • 2017 07 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 07 – Poems
          • 2017 07 – the fire at Grenfell Tower
          • 2017 07 – News From France
          • 2017 07 – Newsnotes
          • 2017 07 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2017 09 – Magazine
          • 2017 09 – Editorial – Brexit Blues
          • 2017 09 – Baby Boomers to Blame?
          • 2017 09 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2017 09 – Labour in Northern Ireland
          • 2017 09 – News From France
          • 2017 09 – News from Italy
          • 2017 09 – Newsnotes
          • 2017 09 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 09 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2017 09 – Poems
          • 2017 09 – Taylor Report on Employment Practices
          • 2018 09 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
        • 2017 10 – Magazine
          • 2017 10 – Editorial – Brexit Divisions
          • 2017 10 – British Responsibility for Northern Ireland
          • 2017 10 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2017 10 – News From France
          • 2017 10 – News From Italy
          • 2017 10 – Newsnotes
          • 2017 10 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 10 – Parliamentary Notes
          • 2017 10 – Poems
        • 2017 11 – Magazine
          • 2017 11 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2017 11 – Editorial – Tories Now Fear Corbyn
          • 2017 11 – Jews OR Zionism?
          • 2017 11 – Letter From New Zealand
          • 2017 11 – News From Italy
          • 2017 11 – Poems
          • 2017 11 – News From France
          • 2017 11 – Newsnotes
          • 2017 11 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 11 – Parliamentary Notes
        • 2017 12 – Magazine
          • 2017 12 – British Trade Unionists in the Soviet Union in 1925 (1)
          • 2017 12 – Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
          • 2017 12 – Housing in London’s Harringey
          • 2017 12 – News from Italy
          • 2017 12 – news from New Zealand
          • 2017 12 – poem
          • 2017 12 Editorial – the Tory Budget
          • 2017 12 – News From France
          • 2017 12 – Newsnotes
          • 2017 12 – Parliament And World War One
          • 2017 12 – Parliamentary Notes
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    • Previous Newsnotes
      • 90) Who Maintains this site?
        • 90.1) My artwork
          • 95) T-shirt Design
            • My t-shirt design
        • 90.2) My Holiday Photos
        • 90.3) My Humour
          • A Multiverse Excursion
          • Black Hawk Down Snow Dogs
          • Coral alarm dwarfs pact to cut gases
          • What to do with non-BBC Accents
        • My DNA results
        • Raymond Williams, My Father
    • Regular Articles Shown By Month
  • E) Problems Magazine
    • Agnes Smedley and China’s Red Army
    • Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
    • As P45 – Eugenics in 1912
    • As P45 – the Dangers of Eugenics
    • As P45 – the Texas Freeze of 2021
    • As P46 – How to fix Climate Change and keep Modern Civilisation
    • As P47 – Elites Always Take Too Much
    • As P47 – Why No One Deserves to be a Millionaire
    • Asocialism – the Core Idea of the New Right
    • Balfour on Cobden and Progress
      • Balfour Against Free Trade
      • Balfour Against Progress?
      • Balfour on Cobden
      • Balfour on Progress
      • Cobden, Corn Laws and World War One
      • Why does Balfour Still Matter?
    • Britain’s Exterminating Sea Empire
    • China: Blue Ants and Dangerous Reds
    • China: Nurturing Red Stars
    • Coolhearts – the Wrong 1960s Morality
    • Gorbachev – Ruining Your Own Country
    • Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
    • How Chinese Communism Fixed a Broken Society
    • How Mao Greatly Strengthened China
    • In a Hole In a Hole Dwelt a Nothingness
    • Marxism and the Wrong Turning of 1987 to 1995
    • Mussolini’s Links to the British Centre-Right
    • New Right Ideas – the End of the Road
    • P42 – Tories Made a Europe Fit for Fascists
      • A Trial For Mussolini – Showing Former Tory Friendship With Him
      • Churchill in 1927 Praising Italian Fascism
      • Mainstream British Thinkers Close to Fascism
      • Orwell on British Jews (1943)
      • Orwell on Foot’s Anti-Tory Book
      • Racism and Slavery – Long Histories
    • Post-Liberalism
      • Being An Aboriginal European
      • Chinese Politics Working Well
      • Israel as a Western Colony
      • Why All Freedom Includes Limits
      • Why Liberal Solutions Are Failing
    • Problems Magazine – Older Issues
      • A 1988 view seeing Gorbachev’s economic reforms as failing
      • A 1988 view seeing Islam as a new Ideology Of Progres
      • British Distortions of German Motives in World War One
      • Encouraging Iraqi Rebels in April 1991
      • Gorbachev ‘s Failure, Foreseen in 1990
      • Gorbachev and Islam, reconsidered in 2010
      • How the British Establishment Planned World War One
      • How the Vietnam War extended freedom in the West
      • Looking Back in 1991 at East Germany’s collapse
      • Many Versions of Democracy
      • P1 – 59 – Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
      • P1 – 60 – The religious roots of Britain’s Industrial Revolution
      • P1 – 62 – Civilisation Alley: A Band of Pre-Industrial Empires from Britain to Sri Lanka
      • P1 – 63 – Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
      • P1 – 65 – Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
      • P1 – 76 – Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
      • P1-44 – The Don’t-Care State
      • The 1991 Invasion of Iraq – not International Law
      • The Failed Russian Coup of 1991
      • The Irish State in 1990
      • The Soviet Collapse and the Putin Recovery
      • The United Nations as a 20th Century Myth
      • The United Nations War on Iraq in 1991
      • The Vanishing of Leninist Eastern Europe (viewed from 1990)
      • Thoughts on Socialism And Private Property
      • Warning in 1991 Against a War Against Serbia
      • William Cobbett and England’s 1830 ‘Captain Swing’ Rural Riots
      • William Cobbett’s 1831 Trial for Free Speech
    • Russian Christianity and the Bolsheviks
    • The invention of agriculture and cities
    • The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
    • The Morality of World War One
    • The West Fails in Five Civilisations
      • Western Failures in Five Civilisations
    • Traditional China Resisted Modernisation.
    • What Are Numbers?
    • What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
    • What is Artificial Intelligence About?
    • What’s Wrong With Socrates
      • How Platonism Infected Christianity
    • Why China’s ‘Blue Republic’ Achieved Nothing
    • Why Labour Lost in December 2019
    • Why Spontaneous Politics Mostly Fails
    • Working-Class Public Schools?
  • F) Free Pamphlets
    • China as a New Civilisation
    • Labour needed Corbyn
      • Additional Material
    • Labour Never Anti-Semitic
  • G) Soviet History
    • Brendan Clifford on the Russian Revolution – 1
      • Brendan Clifford on the Russian Revolution – 2
    • Market Socialism in the Soviet Union
    • Marxism and Market Socialism
    • Russia and the Nerve Gas attack on Sergei Skripal
    • Stalin was the real heir of Lenin
    • The extremism of Soviet legal theory
    • Why Che Guavara approved of Stalin
  • H) Other Websites and Blogs
  • M) Articles By Topic
    • British Labour History
    • M99) Topic Menus from Long Revolution Website.
      • 10) Ideas and Ideals
        • 10.1) More Ideas
          • Does the ‘Right Stuff’ exist?
          • Sir James Goldsmith: Rich, Loud and Ignorant
          • Sociocide – Liberalism’s True History
          • The Enlightenment’s Limited Light
          • The Trotskyist Origins of US Neo-Cons
          • Why I Call It a Global Night-Club
        • 10.2) Further Ideas
          • Classes in Britain in 2011
          • Fukuyama on History after the Gulf War
          • How the Left Created Modern Ideas of ‘The Normal’.
          • How to prevent school massacres
          • Pascal, the Jesuits and Plato
          • Raymond Williams Remembered
          • The World View behind the Gulf War
        • Baby Boomers to Blame?
        • Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
        • Everyone and Anyone are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
        • Khrushchev Influenced By Trotskyism
        • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
        • The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
        • The World as a Global Night-Club
        • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
        • Why Trotsky’s politics achieved nothing solid
      • 15) Science
        • 15.1) More science
          • Blond Hair not Racial
          • Cooking Made Us Human
          • Gifts Close to Madness?
          • Letter About Memes
          • Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
          • The Evolution of Bees
          • Why Motherhood Exists
        • 15.2) Yet More science
          • Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
          • Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
          • The Decline of US Science
          • The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
          • Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
        • And So Say All of Me
        • Big fierce animals are losers
        • Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
        • Chimps Are Never Tame
        • Constellations – a Human Invention
        • Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
        • Evolution Prevented By Competition
        • Human Altruism and Psychopathy
        • Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
        • Mice more evolved than humans
        • Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
        • Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
        • The Usefulness of Group Thinking
      • 20) History
        • Civilisation Alley
        • Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
        • Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
        • Religion and Capitalism
        • Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
        • Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
        • The ‘White Race’ does not exist
        • The original guerillas of Spain
        • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 1
          • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 2
          • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 3
          • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 4
          • The Seven Months War of 1914 – Part 5
        • The Truth of Troy
        • When Wheels Entered History
        • Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
      • 30) Britain
        • 30.1) More on Britain
          • Ed Miliband’s anti-state legacy
          • How New Labour Emerged from 1970s Labour Leftism
          • Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
          • Poppy Day after the Iraq War
          • The Royal Bank “of Scotland”
          • William Hague and the 2001 General Election
        • Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
        • Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
        • Boris Johnson and the ‘Russian’ Nerve Gas Attack
        • British Democracy Began in 1884
        • Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
        • How the British Empire Blighted Britain
        • Labour Party Defectors of 2019
        • Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
        • Minterism: an English Vanity
        • Orwell as a British Imperialist
        • Slavery in the British Empire
        • The Brixton Riots of 1987
        • The Legacy of Tony Blair (2007)
        • The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
        • Why Labour needs Jeremy Corbyn
      • 40) China (including Tibet)
        • 40.1) More on China
          • China rejecting the Western political system
          • Communist China’s 1989 Fight for Survival
          • Reviewing ‘Mao: the Unknown Story’
          • Reviewing Martin Jacques ‘When China Rules The World’
          • The 1989 Tianenmen Crackdown, viewed from 2001
          • The Hainan Island incident of 2001
        • 40.2) Tibet
          • Falsehoods in ‘Seven Years in Tibet’
          • How Tibet Emerged Within the Wider Chinese Power-Political Zone
          • The Strange History of the Dalai Lamas
          • The Tibetan Race Riots of 2008
          • Tibet and International Law
          • Why the West should not be encouraging Tibetan separatism
        • China’s ‘Three Bitter Years’, 1959 to 1961
        • Communist China’s survival after the Tiananmen Crackdown
        • How Mao Modernised Chinese Thinking
      • 45) Fascism & the Two World Wars
        • 45.1) More on Fascism & the World Wars
          • How Britain Planned World War One
          • Orwell on Spain and Britain
          • The British Empire’s Accidental War With Nazi Germany
          • Was the Brest-Litovsk Peace Unreasonable?
          • What Churchill really meant by ‘The Few’
          • Why the Left lost the Spanish Civil War
        • Britain’s 20th century wars
        • British and US Genocide
        • Deaths Caused by Hitler
        • Hitler’s English Inspirers
        • How Churchill was Close to Fascism
        • How Hitler Might Have Had a Victorious Peace
        • How the Tory Party aided Hitler’s Rise
        • Raymond Williams in World War Two
        • The British Empire, the USA and Hitler
        • Why Churchill Admired Mussolini
        • Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
      • 48) Anti-Semitism and Zionism
        • Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
        • Criminalising Holocaust Denial
        • Fewer Anti-Semites in Labour than Tories
        • Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
        • Israel as a Western Colony
        • Israel Taking Too Much
        • Jews Suffering in the Fall of the British Empire
        • Ken Livingstone Not Antisemitic
        • Market Minorities Across the World
        • Zionism as the Abolition of Jews
        • Zionism’s Suicidal Militancy
      • 50) Globalisation
        • 50.1) More on Globalisation
          • David Hutton and “The State We’re In”
          • Opium City – the story of Hong Kong
          • Rationality and World History
          • Thatcherite Concepts of Classlessness
          • The Anglosphere in 2004
          • The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
          • What ‘Stakeholder’ Means
        • Anti-Globalisation in 2001
        • Are Top Salaries Really Justified?
        • David Miliband on Democracy
        • Degraded Globalisation
        • How Everything Changed in 1979
        • Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation in the Year 2000
        • Olympic Sports for the Top Four
        • Reflections on the Start of the Iraq War
        • Russia and the Nerve Gas attack on Sergei Skripal
        • The many versions of democracy
        • The Web Is Always Insecure
        • The World After 9/11
        • Ukraine – Kiev’s Five-Day War Machine
        • What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
        • Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
      • 55) Economics
        • 2019 05 – Where new products really come from
        • 55.1) The Human Basis of Economics
          • Capitalism Within Culture
          • Capitalist ‘Managerial Science’ is Highly Collectivist
          • Economics is About People, Not Money
          • How we are still paying for fear of Corporatism in the 1970s.
          • The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
        • 55.2) Adam Smith Misled Us
          • Adam Smith and the New Right
          • Adam Smith Faked His Most Famous Claim
          • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
          • Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
          • Coleridge’s Alternative for the British Economy
          • Corporations Are Against Individualism
          • Economics is About People, Not Money
          • Real Economic Growth Was Not Based on Adam Smith’s Ideas
          • The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
          • The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
          • The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
          • William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
        • Adam Smith and the New Right
        • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
        • Capitalism as a theology
        • Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
        • Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
        • How National Economies Really Grow
        • How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
        • Market Winners Rob the Rest of Us
        • Replacing Capitalism by Capitalism
        • The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
        • The errors of New Right economics
        • Trickle-Down Never Happened
        • Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
        • William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
      • 65) New Right Ideas
        • Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
        • Errors of Friedrich Hayek
        • Inequality and no ‘Trickle-Down’
        • International Law and the 1990s
        • Milton Friedman and his Errors
        • Models of Democracy
        • Needless Suffering in the 1840s Irish Potato Famine
        • New Right Ideas – Hayek and Ayn Rand
      • 70) USA
        • Bewitched – Television from the 1960s USA
        • Bill Clinton’s Injustice Towards Iraq
        • Both Sides Were Racist in the US Civil War
        • Colin Powell and Vietnam massacres
        • How the USA Shifted Left after World War Two
        • Kennedy Assassination – Two Separate Plots?
        • Obama as Just Another Ineffective President
        • The Space Shuttle, the ‘Right Stuff’ and Chuck Yeager
      • 73) Democracy
        • Democracy and one-party states
        • How John Stuart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
        • Letter on Democracy and Capitalism
      • 75) Other Politics
        • 1950s British War Crimes in Africa
        • Bias in the Nobel Peace Prize
        • Corporations Good, Corporatism Bad?
        • How Ideologies Collapsed Within the Soviet Union and Within Roman Catholicism
        • How Marxism Redefined Human Society
        • How the Vietnam War extended freedom in the West
        • Japan Doing OK
        • Starting the Iraq War (2003)
        • US Reactions to 9/11
        • US Shysterism in Iraqi in 2004
        • Variable Eternal Truths about Serbs and Germans
      • 76) Problems Magazine
        • Agnes Smedley and China’s Red Army
        • Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
        • Asocialism – the Core Idea of the New Right
        • Balfour on Cobden and Progress
          • Balfour Against Free Trade
          • Balfour Against Progress?
          • Balfour on Cobden
          • Balfour on Progress
          • Why does Balfour Still Matter?
        • China: Blue Ants and Dangerous Reds
        • China: Nurturing Red Stars
        • Freedom as Misunderstood by Liberals
        • How Chinese Communism Fixed a Broken Society
        • How Mao Greatly Strengthened China
        • In a Hole In a Hole Dwelt a Nothingness
        • Post-Liberalism
          • Being An Aboriginal European
          • Why All Freedom Includes Limits
        • Russian Christianity and the Bolsheviks
        • The End of the Road for New Right Ideas
        • The invention of agriculture and cities
        • The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
        • The West Fails in Five Civilisations
        • Traditional China Resisted Modernisation
        • What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
        • Why China’s ‘Blue Republic’ Achieved Nothing
        • Gorbachev – Ruining Your Own Country
      • 77) Why Humans Make Religion
        • Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
        • Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
        • Enoch Powell’s Odd Defence of the Gospels
        • Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
        • Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ Twists the Tale
        • Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
        • Unexpected Things said in the Bible
        • What do we mean by ‘Evil’?
      • 80) Literature
        • 80.1) Literature, Film and Art
          • Book Covers
          • Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
          • Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
          • Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
          • Minterism: an English Vanity
          • Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
        • Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
        • Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
        • Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
      • 85) Science Fiction & Fantasy
        • 85.1) Tolkien
          • 000) Lord of the Rings, Chapter by Chapter
            • 101) Opening, and A Long-Expected Party
            • 102) The Shadow of the Past
            • 103) Three is Company
            • 104) A Short Cut to Mushrooms
            • 105) A Conspiracy Unmasked
            • 106) The Old Forest
            • 107) In the House of Tom Bombadil
            • 108) Fog on the Barrow-downs
            • 109) At the Sign of The Prancing Pony
            • 110) Strider
            • 111) A Knife in the Dark
            • 112) Flight to the Ford
            • 170) When Would Normal Gold Melt?
            • 180) Gandalf, Rings and Ringwraiths
            • 201) Many Meetings
            • 202) The Council of Elrond
            • 203) The Ring Goes South
            • 204) A Journey in the Dark
            • 205) The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
            • 206) Lothlórien
            • 207) The Mirror of Galadriel
            • 208) Farewell to Lórien
            • 209) The Great River
            • 210) The Breaking of the Fellowship
            • 270) Who Is Tom Bombadil?
            • 301) The Departure of Boromir
            • 302 – The Riders of Rohan
            • 303 – The Uruk-Hai
            • 304 – Treebeard
            • 305 – The White Rider
            • 306 – The King of the Golden Hall
            • 307 – Helm’s Deep
            • 308 – The Road to Isengard
            • 309 – Flotsam and Jetsam
            • 310 – The Voice of Saruman
            • 311 – The Palantir
            • 401 – The Taming of Smeagol
            • 402 – The Passage of the Marshes
            • 407 – Journey to the Cross-roads
            • 408 – The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
            • 409 – Shelob’s Lair
            • 410 – The Choices of Master Samwise
            • 800 – Tying Chapters to Dates
            • 888 – Finding It Hard To Read?
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          • 700) Very Short Stories
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          • 710) Stories under 1000 words
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          • How a robotka was left behind on a primitive planet
          • Kindness, Choice and Psychopaths
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          • Several Stars Away From Home
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          • The Ashes Of My Brief Existence
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            • The Seven Months War of 1914: 2) The Marne and Tannenberg
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        • Chinese Politics Working Well
        • Liberalism From Cromwell to Lloyd George
        • The French Revolution and Its Unstable Politics
          • 00) Main Menu
          • 10) Human Biological History
            • And So Say All of Me
            • Blond Hair Occurred at least Twice
            • Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
            • Chimps Are Never Tame
            • Cooking Made Us Human
            • Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
            • Gifts Close to Madness?
            • Human Altruism and Psycopathy
            • Letter About Memes
            • Mice more evolved than humans
            • Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
            • Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
            • Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
            • The ‘White Race’ does not exist
            • The Usefulness of Group Thinking
            • Why Motherhood was Created by Natural Selection
            • Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
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            • Big fierce animals are losers
            • Does Physics Find Only Holes Within Holes?
            • Evolution Prevented By Competition
            • Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
            • Humans On A Cosmic Scale
            • Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
            • Physics and the Nature of Reality
            • Schrodinger and Cheshire Cats
            • Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
            • The Decline of US Science
            • The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
            • The Unexpected Muon
          • 20) British History
            • Arkwright and the rise of the factory system
            • Being An Aboriginal European
            • Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
            • British Democracy Began in 1884
            • Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
            • Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
            • Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
            • Petty Describing Real Capitalism
            • Race & Reformist Rioting – Brixton 1987
            • Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
          • 25) World History
            • Agnes Smedley and China’s 1930s Red Army
            • Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
            • Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
            • Civilisation Alley
            • Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
            • Deaths Caused by Hitler
            • Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
            • Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
            • The invention of agriculture and cities
            • The Morality of a Gulf War (Nov. 1990)
            • The original guerillas of Spain
            • Traditional China Resisted Modernisation.
            • What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
            • Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
          • 30) Human Dynamics
            • ‘Everyone’ and ‘Anyone’ are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
            • ASCII – an Unhappy Legacy for Computers
            • Baby Boomers to Blame?
            • Behind every Great Man there’s a Great Ape
            • Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
            • Don’t Confuse Mao with Mao
            • Don’t Speak of Cold Misty Mountains
            • Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
            • Market Minorities Across the World
            • Months in English – an Odd History
            • Must We Have the Profit Motive?
            • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
          • 35) Politics
            • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
            • Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
            • Democracy and one-party states
            • Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
            • How John Stewart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
            • How National Economies Really Grow
            • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
            • The Original Conspiracy Theory
            • What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
            • Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
          • 40) Against globalisation
            • Anti-Globalisation in 2001
            • Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
            • Chinese Politics Working Well
            • Degraded Globalisation
            • Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
            • How Everything Changed in 1979
            • How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
            • How the British Empire Blighted Britain
            • Market Minorities Across the World
            • Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
            • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
            • The Anglosphere in 2004
            • The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
            • The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
            • The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
            • The Web Is Always Insecure
            • The World After 9/11
            • The World as a Global Night-Club
            • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
            • Why All Freedom Includes Limits
            • Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
          • 403 – The Black Gate is Closed
          • 404 – Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
          • 405 – The Window on the West
          • 406 – The Forbidden Pool
          • 45) Why Humans Make Religion
            • Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
          • 60) About Science Fiction & Fantasy
            • A look at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
            • Game of Thrones and Other Filmable Fantasy
            • Home Movies of the Soul
            • Priam’s Tragedy and the Wrath of Achilles
            • The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
            • The Moral Void in Star Wars
          • 80) Holiday Photos
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        • The Bevin Society: Aims and Purposes
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      • Magazine 021 – January 1991
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        • Blasphemy for Atheists? Why Bother?
        • Force-Labour Camps in 1930s Britain.
        • How Thatcher Encouraged Welfare Dependency
        • How Thatcher Repeatedly Rewarded IRA Violence
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        • The Post-1956 Failure of Pro–Moscow Communism
        • The United Nations and the 1991 Gulf War
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        • False History for Ireland
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        • Tribute to Eric Heffer
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        • Making peace in South Africa in 1991
        • Neglect of the Mentally Ill (in 1991)
        • Newsnotes 025 – September 1991
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        • The 1991 Soviet Coup – viewed just afterwards
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        • Labour and Student Politics, 2 of 3
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        • The USA’s New World Order (in 1991)
        • What Ernest Bevin did for Trade Unionism
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        • British Government Disrupts the European Union (in 1991)
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        • The novel ‘How Green Was My Valley’
        • ‘Marxism Today’ smugly winds itself up amidst the ruins of left-wing politics
      • Magazine 028 – March 1992
        • How Charles Haughey Transformed Ireland
        • Newsnotes 028 – March 1992
        • Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy.
      • Magazine 029 – May 1992
        • Labour Needs a Working Class Section
        • Newsnotes 029 – May 1992
        • Student Politics Remade the British Left (3)
        • The Labour Party and Trade Unions
        • Was Modern Industry a Mistake?
      • Magazine 030 – July 1992
        • ‘Bomber’ Harris in 1920s Iraq
        • Darwinism – a Creed Needing Correction
        • Football as Culture (in 1992)
        • Kier Hardie – Labour’s First MP
        • Kleptocracy in Yeltsin’s Russia
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        • Russia past and present (in 1992)
        • When Marxism Was Made Fashionable (in 1992)
      • Magazine 031 – September 1992
        • Europe and Currency in 1992
        • History of the Transport and General Workers’ Union
        • Newsnotes 031 – September 1992
        • The Housing Shortage in 1992
        • The Iraq Exclusion Zones in 1992
        • Yugoslavia Betrayed in World War Two
      • Magazine 032 – November 1992
        • Adam Smith and the American Revolution
        • British citizens or UK customers?
        • Failed British Generalship in World War One
        • Newsnotes 32 – November 1992
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        • British balance-of-power games
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        • Litigation as the enemy of Welfare
        • Lost Chances in the English Civil War
        • Newsnotes 033 – January 1993
        • Secession – Different Rules Applied in Yugoslavia
        • Workers Control in Germany (in 1993)
      • Magazine 034 – March 1993
        • Adam Smith Undermining Social Values
        • Hitler’s Fondness For Croats
        • Newsnotes 034 – March 1993
        • Rejecting the ‘New World Order’ (in 1993)
        • Socialism & Society By Ramsay MacDonald (1)
      • Magazine 035 – May 1993
        • Adam Smith and the Fragmentation of Work
        • Bad NHS Reforms (in 1993)
        • Britain Damaging Yugoslavia (1994)
        • Corruption in Italy
        • Newsnotes 035 – May 1993
        • Ramsay MacDonald: Socialism & Society (2)
        • The Illogic of English Spelling
        • Yeltsin Becoming Dictatorial With Western Approval (1993)
      • Magazine 036 – July 1993
        • ‘Falling Down!’ – a Film About US Failure
        • Lithuania in 1993 (1)
        • Newsnotes 036 – July 1993
        • Trade Unions – A Link with Reality for Labour
        • William Morris On What Life Might Be
    • Magazines 037 to 048 – In Progress
      • Magazine 037 – September 1993
        • Adam Smith Misunderstanding State Power
        • Letter to the editor about Ramsay MacDonald, plus Reply
        • Newsnotes 037 – September 1993
        • Report from Lithuania in 1993 (2)
      • Magazine 038 – November 1993
        • Adam Smith’s Idea of the Invisible Hand
        • Defending the Right to Silence
        • Feminists Against Equality?
        • Newsnotes 038 – November 1993
        • The IRA as the most British thing in Ireland
        • The Need for an Incomes Policy
      • Magazine 039 – January 1994
        • Crime and Morality
        • Fascism and Social Nationalism
        • Newsnotes 039 – January 1994
        • Russia : The Incompetent Capitalist Revolution in 1994
        • The “Voluntary” Sector Not the Best Answer
      • Magazine 040 – not yet scanned
      • Magazine 041 – May 1994
        • Bosnian Serbs Provoked (in 1994)
        • C S Lewis as hypocrite
        • Castro’s Reasons
        • Major’s Failed ‘Back to Basics’
        • Memories of the Opium Wars
        • Palme Dutt, British Communist from the 1920s
        • Paul Foot on Pit Closures
        • Thinking About Nixon
        • Tory lack of a good leader after Major
        • UN Bungling in Bosnia in 1994
        • Why Thatcherism Happened
      • Magazine 042 – not yet scanned
      • Magazine 043 – not yet scanned
      • Magazine 044 – not yet scanned
      • Magazine 045 – January 1995
        • Clause 4 and Common Ownership
        • Labour Party Policies from 1918
        • Labour’s Original Clause 4 (Public Ownership)
    • Magazines 048 to 059 – In Progress
      • Magazine 053 – April 1996
        • Chinese ‘expansionism’
        • Guns and Social Morality
        • Hutton and ‘Stakeholders’
        • Letter from Australia (From 1996)
        • Newsnotes 053 – April 1996
        • Why democracy fails in Northern Ireland
        • Why Welfare and Nationalisation Worked After 1945
        • Will Hutton Interviewed about ‘The State We’re In’
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