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Corbyn’s Labour Party induces hysteria amongst the establishment elite

Post author:Nicolas Lalaguna
Post published:23 Aug 2018
Post category:capitalism culture film imperialism labour movement media politics

George Orwell famously said, 'in times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. That quote has been echoing around my mind for several weeks now. Of course It didn't help that during the last couple of weeks I've also read two articles by Jonathan Cook on Znet which amplified the reverberations around my mind. The first was a refreshing analysis of the recent hysteria from the mainstream media branding Corbyn's Labour Party…

May Day, McStrikes and my review of McLibel

Post author:Nicolas Lalaguna
Post published:28 Apr 2018
Post category:activism capitalism deep state film international labour movement

In the mid 1980s London Greenpeace wrote a fact sheet and started handing it out in front of McDonalds in North London. In 1990 the McDonalds corporation issued libel writs against 5 of the activists. The ploy nearly worked. 3 of the five backed down, apologised and retracted their claims. Two of them didn't. Helen Steel and David Morris refused. What ensued was, at the time, the longest trial in English history. It soon became…

The UK deep state, and the progressive left that they target

Post author:Nicolas Lalaguna
Post published:14 Apr 2018
Post category:activism deep state history international labour movement politics

The UK deep state is very real. The exploiter class is fighting a war with the exploited class. And they are using the state to do it. There are UK secret police. And they are working with US spies to monitor British political activists. The NSA and GCHQ are monitoring us right now, and sharing the information with their chums. As you read this post, there is at least two digital files being updated. Regardless…

My first novel, A Most Uncivil War

Post author:Nicolas Lalaguna
Post published:10 Mar 2018
Post category:anarchism history international labour movement spanish civil war

I've just got around to putting the details up about my first book, a Spanish Civil War novel called A Most Uncivil War. The idea for this novel came about after several people commented on a couple of my essays that had recently been published on the war. One was focussed on the anarchist revolution and the other was on the people's Olympics in Barcelona. I spent some time going through my notes and realised…

Study of an anarchist revolution

Post author:Nicolas Lalaguna
Post published:10 Mar 2018
Post category:activism anarchism history international labour movement spanish civil war

In the early 1930s, the ruling elite in Spain found themselves caught between conservative fascists and social democrats. In contrast large sections of the population were divided along communist and anarchist lines. The compromise offered up by the ruling class was a progressive and democratic system of government. But this was a step too far for many of the ruling class and they responded by attempting to take control of the country through military force.…