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Twenty-First Century Socialism

  • 00) What’s New & Main Menu
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
      • 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 as it is
    • 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
    • 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
      • How 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
    • Where new products really come from
    • Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
    • William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
  • 60) News Archive
    • 1998 to 2009 – Newsnotes
      • 1998 and 1999 Newsnotes
        • 1996 and 1997 – Newsnotes
        • Newsnoted 1999 03
        • Newsnotes 1998 09
        • Newsnotes 1998 12
        • Newsnotes 1999 01
        • Newsnotes 1999 02
        • Newsnotes 1999 04
      • 2000 – 2001 Newsnotes
        • Newsnotes 2000 03
        • Newsnotes 2001 06
        • Newsnotes 2001 10
        • Newsnotes 2001 12
      • 2002 Newsnotes
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        • Newsnotes 2002 11
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      • 2003 Newsnotes
        • Newsnotes 2003 01
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      • 2004 Newsnotes
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      • 2005 Newsnotes
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      • 2006 Newsnotes
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      • 2007 Newsnotes
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      • 2008 Newsnotes
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      • 2009 Newsnotes
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    • 2010 Newsnotes
      • Newsnotes 2010 02
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    • 2011 Newsnotes
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    • 2012 Newsnotes
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    • 2013 Newsnotes
      • Newsnotes 2013 02
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    • 2014 Newsnotes
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    • 2015 Newsnotes
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    • 2016 Newsnotes
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    • 2017 Newsnotes
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    • 2018 Newsnotes
      • News Blog – August 2018
      • News Blog – October 2018
      • Newsnotes 2018 02
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    • 2019 Newsnotes
      • 2019 02 – Blog on Politics
      • 2019 02 – Blog on Science
      • 2019 02 – Blog on Science Fiction & Fantasy
      • Newsnotes 2019 02
      • Newsnotes 2019 03
      • Newsnotes 2019 04
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  • 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
      • Cobden, Corn Laws and World War One
      • 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
    • Marxism and the Wrong Turning of 1987 to 1995
    • Post-Liberalism
      • Being An Aboriginal European
      • Chinese Politics Working Well
      • Why All Freedom Includes Limits
      • Why Liberal Solutions Are Failing
    • 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?
      • A Letter to Private Eye Defending Tolkien
      • Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
      • Filming Tolkien
      • Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
      • Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
      • Tolkien and British History
      • Tolkien and Le Guin
      • Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
    • Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
    • Eyes and Illusions in Tolkien and Le Guin
    • Home Movies of the Soul
    • How Did Gandalf Find the One Ring?
    • Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
    • My Own Science Fiction
      • 700) Very Short Stories
        • Becoming Dangerous Yellow
        • Einstein and the Official Christmas Day
        • Fire works, Ice Endures
        • Mistcrap in Flipworld
        • Turning the Year
        • Vindalf’s Gift
      • 710) Stories under 1000 words
        • Third Time Lucky
      • A close transit of a gas giant
      • A fight at the Temple of the Black Cloud
      • How a robotka was left behind on a primitive planet
      • Kindness, Choice and Psychopaths
      • One Walked To War
      • Several Stars Away From Home
      • Sociopaths and Osteopaths
      • The Ashes Of My Brief Existence
      • The Seven Months War of 1914: 1)
        • The Seven Months War of 1914: 2) The Marne and Tannenberg
        • The Seven Months War of 1914: 3) The Christmas Truce and the Bryan Plan
        • The Seven Months War of 1914: 4) Peace Plans and the Problem of Bosnia
        • The Seven Months War of 1914: 5) The Consequences of the 1915 Peace
      • Troy Before Homer
    • Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
    • The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
    • The Moral Void in Star Wars
    • Tolkien and British History
    • Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
    • Tolkien in the language of film
  • 90) Who Am I?
    • 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
    • 998) From Labour Affairs
      • 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
      • 2019 05 – Magazine
        • 2019 05 – News From France
        • 2019 05 – Newsnotes
        • 2019 05 – Parliamentary Notes
      • 2019 06 – Magazine
        • 2019 06 – News From France
        • 2019 06 – Newsnotes
        • 2019 06 – Parliamentary Notes
      • 2019 07 – Magazine
        • 2019 07 – News From France
        • 2019 07 – Newsnotes
        • 2019 07 – Parliamentary Notes
      • 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?
      • K) Labour Never Anti-Semitic
      • M) Articles By Topic
      • P) 1987 to 1993
        • 1994 to 1999 – Magazine
          • Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
          • How to prevent school massacres
          • My Father Raymond Williams
          • Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
          • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
          • Thatcherite Concepts of Classlessness
          • The World as a Global Night-Club
          • Why I Call It a Global Night-Club
        • Articles By Topic from 1987
        • Magazines 001 to 012
          • Magazine 001 January 1987
            • Life of Anthony Crosland
            • Newsnotes 001
            • Racism as Anti-Racism
            • Reagan’s Star Wars
          • Magazine 002 – April 1987
            • Chinese Anti-Party Protests of 1987
            • Life of R. H. Tawney
            • Newsnotes 002 – April 1987
          • Magazine 003 – July 1987
            • Growing Inequality (noted in mid-1987)
            • Legalising Prostitution
            • Life of Clement Attlee
            • Life of Hugh Dalton
            • Newsnotes 003 – July 1987
          • Magazine 004 – October 1987
            • Newsnotes 004 – October 1987
            • Why Harold Wilson’s Government Achieved Little
            • Why Pornography Does Not Cause Rape
            • Why Socialists Should Accept the British Monarchy
            • Why the West Saved Saddam Hussein in 1987
          • Magazine 005 – January 1988
            • Disbelieving Gorbachev’s Reforms (Jan. 1989)
            • French Peasants in the 1920s (in film)
            • From Stalin Down To Gorbachev
            • Newsnotes 005 – January 1988
            • Socialism and Child Benefit (in 1988)
            • Spycatcher: Fact or Fantasy
          • Magazine 006 – April 1988
            • Left-wing Fear of Corporatism (in 1988)
            • May 1968 in France
            • Newsnotes 006 – April 1988
          • Magazine 007 – July 1988
            • Afghanistan Neglected in 1988
            • Conflicts Between Rival Nationalisms in 1988
            • Newsnotes 007 – July 1988.
            • The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia Doomed the Soviet Union
            • The Effects of Pornography (in 1988)
          • Magazine 008 – October 1988
            • How Thatcher Encouraged Selfishness
            • How Vietnam Won the War But Lost the Peace
            • Newsnotes 008 – October 1988
            • Socialism and the 1688 British Revolution
            • The Bevin Society: Aims and Purposes
          • Magazine 009 – January 1989
            • Demanding a Written British Constitution
            • Newsnotes 009 – January 1989
          • Magazine 010 – March 1989
            • Housing in Britain (in 1989)
            • Newsnotes 010 – March 1989
            • Should the Labour Party Accept Nuclear Weapons?
            • Thatcherism Failing (written March 1989)
            • The British Left Made Thatcher Possible
          • Magazine 011 – May 1989
            • Belfast in the French Revolution (Book Review)
            • Protecting Islam Within Britain (History )
            • Protecting Islamic Faith in Britain
            • The Social Origins of Islam
          • Magazine 012 – July 1989
            • Newsnotes 012 – July 1989
            • Thatcher’s Rise to Power
            • The French Revolution and Its Unstable Politics
            • What Tiananmen 1989 Was Really About
            • When Kinnock Abandoned Unilateralism
        • Magazines 013 to 024
          • Magazine 013 – September 1989
            • Against the ‘Deep Greens’
            • Educational Reform (in 1989)
            • Newsnotes 013 – September 1989
            • The Building Industry (in 1989)
          • Magazine 014 – November 1989.
            • Ancient Welsh Lives of Ordinary People
            • How Pagans Celebrate Christmas
            • Labour 1945 – a success?
            • Looking Back at the Europe Stalin Made
            • Newsnotes 014 – November 1989.
            • Thatcher and Gorbachev as Soulmates
          • Magazine 015 – January 1990
            • Green and Socialist Fit Naturally
            • Jesus of Montreal (film review)
            • Lessons from the 19th century German Customs Union
            • Newsnotes 015 – January 1990
            • Socialism and Vegetarianism
          • Magazine 016 – March 1990
            • British Literati and the Satanic Verses (in 1989)
            • British socialist should see the monarchy as useful
            • Ceausescu’s Fall (as seen in March 1990)
            • Climate Change (a warning from 1990)
            • East Europe in March 1990
            • Gender and Words
            • Mandela in March 1990
            • Newsnotes 016 – March 1990
            • Rail Privatisation Errors Foreseen in 1990
            • Thatcher Not Good for British Capialism
            • Turks and Others (as seen in March 1990)
          • Magazine 017 – May 1990
            • Against Modernist Architecture (in 1990)
            • Americanizing the Labour Party (in 1990)
            • Does Pornography Cause Violence?
            • Letter on the Electricians Union in the 1950s
            • Misunderstanding Stalin
            • Newsnotes 017 – May 1990
            • Thatcher and the Poll Tax Riots
            • The Poll Tax Riots of 1990
          • Magazine 018 – July 1990
            • Democracy and the Communist Manifesto
            • Iraq – a Crisis Before the Kuwait Invasion
            • Morality and Modern Christian Failure
            • Newsnotes 018 – July 1990
            • Racism in London (in 1990)
            • Review of a Biography of Bertrand Russell
            • War Crimes Trials – Only for the Defeated
            • Why US Electronics Succeeded
          • Magazine 019 – September 1990
            • H. G. Wells Vision of Benevolent Dictatorship
            • Interview with Barbara Castle
            • Iraq in 1990 – No Better Alternative Existed
            • Newsnotes 019 – September 1990.
            • Warning Against a Gulf War (in late 1990)
          • Magazine 020 – November 1990
            • Iraq and International Law (late 1990)
            • Labour Must Uphold Full Employment
            • Marx and Engels excluded Parliamentary Democracy from the Communist Manifesto
            • Newsnotes 020 – November 1990
            • Poverty and the Planet
            • Shrewd Remarks by Churchill
            • Star Trek – Rebooted for the 1990s
            • The IRA as criminals or warriors?
            • The Morality of a Gulf War (Nov. 1990)
            • The Moscow Trials of the 1930s
            • The Politics of Bonfire Night
            • The US Teamsters Union
          • Magazine 021 – January 1991
            • Adam Smith Had Alien Social Values
            • Blasphemy for Atheists? Why Bother?
            • Force-Labour Camps in 1930s Britain.
            • How Thatcher Encouraged Welfare Dependency
            • How Thatcher Repeatedly Rewarded IRA Violence
            • Newsnotes 021 – January 1991
            • Poland in 1991
            • Sovereignty and a Single European Currency (in 1991)
            • Tories Claim a Classless Society
            • Warning Against a Gulf War (Jan. 1991)
            • When John Major Succeeded Thatcher
          • Magazine 022 – March 1991
            • Hunter-Gatherers in a World of Machines
            • Iraq Tricked Into Invading Kuwait?
            • Jack Jones, 1970s Trade Union Leader
            • Newsnotes 022 – March 1991
            • Saudi Arabia Encouraged the 1991 Gulf War
            • The First Bad Gulf War (1991)
            • The USA Forced a War Over Kuwait
            • War Without Law (History)
          • Magazine 023 – May 1991
            • Gulf War Lies & Callousness to Arabs
            • Interview with Eric Heffer
            • Newsnotes 023 – May 1991
            • Sicilian Godfathers in Fact and Film
            • The Post-1956 Failure of Pro–Moscow Communism
            • The United Nations and the 1991 Gulf War
          • Magazine 024 – July 1991
            • Against Bush’s New World Order
            • False History for Ireland
            • Mao’s Achievements (as seen in 1991)
            • Newsnotes 024 – July 1991
            • Tribute to Eric Heffer
        • Magazines 025 to 036
          • Magazine 025 – September 1991
            • 1991 Interview with Bill Morris
            • Green Issues and the Labour Party (in 1991)
            • Industrial Democracy – the Lost Chance
            • Labour in the Irish Republic (in 1991)
            • Making peace in South Africa in 1991
            • Neglect of the Mentally Ill (in 1991)
            • Newsnotes 025 – September 1991
            • Serbs and Croats – who was Anti-Nazi?
            • Student Politics Remade the Left (1 of 3)
            • The 1991 Soviet Coup – viewed just afterwards
          • Magazine 026 – November 1991
            • Newsnotes 026 – November 1991
            • Black Sections in the Labour Party (in 1991)
            • Eric Heffer
            • Labour and Student Politics, 2 of 3
            • Serbs in 1991 Allowed to Crush Albanian Kosovo
            • The USA’s New World Order (in 1991)
            • What Ernest Bevin did for Trade Unionism
          • Magazine 027 – January 1992
            • British Government Disrupts the European Union (in 1991)
            • Newsnotes 027 – January 1992
            • 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
            • Newsnotes 030 – July 1992
            • Russia past and present (in 1992)
            • When Marxism Was Made Fashionable (in 1992)
          • Magazine 031 – not yet placed
          • Magazine 032 – not yet placed
          • Magazine 033 – not yet placed
          • Magazine 034 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 035 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 036 – not yet scanned
        • Magazines 037 to 048 – Nothing Yet
          • Magazine 037 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 038 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 039 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 040 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 041 – not yet scanned
          • Magazine 042 – not yet scanned
            • Labour’s Original Clause 4 (Public Ownership)
        • Newsnotes From 1987
        • Policy Statement (from the 1980s)
        • What Is Placed, and Why
      • 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
        • 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
    • 999) Backup for Gwydion
      • 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
      • 15) Other Science
        • Big fierce animals are losers
        • Constellations – a Human Invention
        • 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
        • Israel Taking Too Much
        • Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
        • The invention of agriculture and cities
        • 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
      • About Me
      • Blog on Science
      • Blog on Science Fiction & Fantasy
      • Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
      • Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
    • My DNA results
    • My Father Raymond Williams
  • 95) My Blogs

Magazine 012 – July 1989

Labour and the Atomic Weapons, The Tiananmen Protests (predicting that Communist Party rule would continue for many years), Thatcher’s Rise to Power, The 1789 French Revolution and Its Unstable Politics.

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