subversion, coercion, secrecy and government, 1974-90
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bloom, Clive
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1L 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- politici, vakbonden, actiegroepen, vredesbeweging, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book looks at the secret campaign that Mrs. Thatcher and her government waged before and after the Falklands War against “subversives”: anti-nuclear, new age, and ecology campaigners: poll tax protesters: trade unionists: Greenham Common women: Scottish nationalists: Ken Livingstone and the GLC: Derek Hatton and the city councilors of Liverpool: the far right: the Europe Union: and the Irish Republican Army. The central argument of the book is that there was not only a secret, internal “cold war” fought throughout the 1980s , but that the consequences of those years have huge implications for the importance and role of the state as it evolved into the twenty-first century outside parliamentary control.