Stuart Christie learns that secret police tactics have changed little in a century
Stuart Christie, The Guardian, Saturday 27 March 2010
Appearing in the wake of allegations of assassination by Israel’s Mossad and the British secret services’ involvement in torture, the publication of Alex Butterworth’s compelling and insightful book is well timed. Woven into the book’s backdrop are the lives of some of the notable late-19th-century European revolutionaries radicalised by poverty, injustice, tsarist tyranny and the bloody suppression of the Paris commune of 1871. These were men and women who believed, in William Morris’s words, that “No man is good enough to be another man’s master”, and who shared a vision of the world as it might one day be – a cooperative commonwealth rid of exploitation, oppression and conflict.
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