I wrote this about Operation Fortitude (aka 'Border Farce') for UK mag/blog Salvage.
I have uploaded the proof version of the introduction to our edited collection on the British far left to the academia website. Extracts from this was already posted on Socialist Unity last year, but here is the full intro.
Astronomically expensive copies of the book can be found here: http://www.bookdepository.com/Against-Grain/9780719095900
Or tell your library to order one from here: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer…
Sorry for cross-posting.
With the anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War this week, here's an old blog post on how the CPGB's chief theoretician avoided the question of when did the war begin.
Before they became Living Marxism and Spiked Online, the Revolutionary Communist Party were running lectures like this.
On this day in 1976, the Grunwick strike began in NW London. This old posts looks at the intersectionality of the strike.
Just re-publicising an old blog post on the reactions to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which happened 47 years go this week.
This how the Daily Worker announced the death of Leon Trotsky in 1940. In the next day's paper, the editor, J.R. Campbell, wrote an article titled 'A Counter-Revolutionary Gangster Passes'.
