India’s ultra-right prime minister Modi has staged an overnight coup abolishing Kashmir’s statehood and autonomous status, cutting all its communication links and flooding it with occupation troops. Like Palestine, Kashmir is a living mangled relic of the crimes of British imperialism, which wantonly promoted internecine communal hatred (just as also in Ireland and wherever else it set foot) in … [Read more...]
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Could there be a Coup?
In this article Roger Silverman briefly considers the issue of attempts to undermine a left-leaning Corbyn government. Chris Mullins' novel “A Very British Coup” does draw an authentic picture of the underhand practices of the British state, perfected over centuries of colonial rule. After all, most of the world's current and historic trouble spots are the direct legacy of the British Empire – … [Read more...]