The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners

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Verso, 2004 - 439 páginas
La 4e de couv. indique : "Margaret Thatcher branded Arthur Scargill and the other leaders of the 1984-5 miners' strike ;'the enemy within'. With the publication of this bestselling book a decade later, the full irony of that accusation became clear. There was an enemy within. But it was not the National Union of Mineworkers that was out to subvert liberty. It was the secret services of the British state - operating inside the NUM itself. Seumas Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destry the power of Britain's miners' union. Using phoney bank deposits, staged cash drops, forged documents, agents provocateurs and unrelenting surveillance, MI5 and police Special Branch set out to discredit Scargill and other miners' leaders. Planted tales of corruption were seized on by the media and both Tory and Labour politicians in what became an unprecedentedly savage smear campaign. In this new edition, published for the twentieth anniversary of Britain's most important postwar social confrontation, new material brings the story up to date - and, in the wake of the Iraq war intelligence scandals, highlights the continuing threat posed by the security services to democracy today."

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INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER
37
CHAPTER
73
CHAPTER THREE
125
CHAPTER FOUR
169
CHAPTER FIVE
215
Moscow GoldDiggers
255
CHAPTER SEVEN
302
CONCLUSION
352
POSTSCRIPT to the Third Edition
378
NOTES
393
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
426
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Seumas Milne is a columnist and Associate Editor on the "Guardian" and the paper's former Comment Editor. He was previously the "Guardian"'s Labour Editor and a staff journalist on the Economist. He is the author of "The Enemy Within" and co-author of "Beyond the Casino Economy."

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