{"id":13072,"date":"2010-04-04T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13072"},"modified":"2010-04-04T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T15:08:58","slug":"the-world-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13072","title":{"rendered":"The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Stuart Christie learns that secret police tactics have changed little in a century<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuart Christie, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, Saturday 27 March 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/mar\/27\/world-never-was-alex-butterworth\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13073\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=13073\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/The-World-That-Never-Was-A-T.jpg?fit=140%2C215\" data-orig-size=\"140,215\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The-World-That-Never-Was-A-T\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/The-World-That-Never-Was-A-T.jpg?fit=140%2C215\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/The-World-That-Never-Was-A-T.jpg?fit=140%2C215\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/The-World-That-Never-Was-A-T.jpg?resize=140%2C215\" alt=\"\" title=\"The-World-That-Never-Was\" width=\"140\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/The-World-That-Never-Was-A-T.jpg?w=140 140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/The-World-That-Never-Was-A-T.jpg?resize=97%2C150 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a>Appearing in the wake of allegations of assassination by Israel&#8217;s Mossad and the British secret services&#8217; involvement in torture, the publication of Alex Butterworth&#8217;s compelling and insightful book is well timed. Woven into the book&#8217;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&#8217;s words, that &#8220;No man is good enough to be another man&#8217;s master&#8221;, and who shared a vision of the world as it might one day be \u2013 a cooperative commonwealth rid of exploitation, oppression and conflict.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/mar\/27\/world-never-was-alex-butterworth\">Read the review<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Mossad and the British secret services&#8217; involvement in torture, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13072\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3oQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13072"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13078,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions\/13078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}