Turning Up the Heat : MI5 After the Cold War O'Hara, Larry by Larry O'Hara

Paperback. Good.

London: Phoenix Press, 1994. 96p., bright white paperstock professionally-printed, with glossy 5.75x8 inch pictorial wraps (design apt but amateur). Like new. Inside skinny on British underground politics, oriented to the young but not exclusively, Irish of course but with a lot of earnest stuff on the Welsh underground, also the Scots. O'Hara is a maverick who has studied state methodologies as well as liberation/armed insurrection tracts. He starts off analyzing a 1993 declaration from MI5, and a 1994 government lecture on state security v. "democracy." It's a little like deconstructing US government pronunciamentos, but perhaps better-focussed, as Britain has had genuine urban guerrillas as long as it has had state security apparatuses, i.e., since about 1575. It's a complicated scenario. Sample from the text, p.65: "MI5 interest in the far left hasn't precluded a close, and potentially quite similar (an ambitious) interest in fascists. This should be no surprise: in both MI5 and Special Branch,… Read More

Phoenix Press (UK). Paperback. Good.