Ebook: Political Journeys: the openDemocracy Essays

Essays mixing the personal and political, originally written for openDemocracy.com, collected and published for the first time in book form.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction by Stephen Howe; Preface; One: Points of Departure; 1. Lessons from Ireland; 2. 1968: The Global Legacy; 3. What was Communism?; 4. A Lunch with Mario Soares; 5. The Forward March of Women Halted?; 6. Feminism in the Middle East: Two Pioneers; Two: Shadows of Cold War; 1. The Age of the Three Dustbins; 2. Looking Back on Saddam Hussein; 3. Cold War Assassinations: Solved and Unsolved; 4. A Conversation in Havana; 5. Boadicea in the South Atlantic: The Legacies of Margaret Thatcher; 6. The Vagaries of 'Anti-Imperalism': The Left and Jihad.