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Thatcher's Secret War - Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 (Hardcover)
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Thatcher's Secret War - Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 (Hardcover)
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Margaret Thatcher remains one of the United Kingdom's most
polarising prime ministers. This provocative investigation sheds
new light on the secret, internal 'cold war' that the Iron Lady and
her government waged against 'the enemy within': anti-nuclear, new
age and ecology campaigners; poll tax protesters; trade unionists
at GCHQ and striking miners; feminists and homosexuals; Scottish
nationalists; Ken Livingstone and the GLC; Derek Hatton and the
city councillors of Liverpool; protesters and rioters in Brixton,
Toxteth and Broadwater Farm; the far right; the EU; and the IRA -
among others. It was a campaign fuelled by paranoia on both the
left and right of the political spectrum and fought with
corruption, black propaganda, dirty tricks and even murder.
Expertly juxtaposing notable events with today's political arena,
author Clive Bloom surmises that the United Kingdom is rapidly
changing and that although Thatcher's ideals seem to have vanished,
one remains: the power and importance of the extra-parliamentary
state and its surveillance methods and hidden powers in a new age
of terrorism. Thatcher's Secret War provides a timely, critical and
compelling study of a deeply complex and controversial premiership.
Accessible, fascinating and compulsive, this is a book that may
well ruffle feathers and rattle cages. Longlisted for the 'Bread
and Roses Award for Radical Publishing' in 2016.
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