In the dawning years of the twenty-fourth century, humanity's perception of the universe changed forever.An unidentified, alien vessel entered the outer reaches of the Solar System on a direct course for the Sun.Convinced by scientists the ship would be unmanned and was certain to be a derelict or robot, the governments of Earth and Mars each sent fleets to intercept, both worlds seeking to gain any technological benefit the hulk might deliver. Martian authorities, realizin...

Six decades after the Blackship War, Earth is once again under alien attack, the weapon of choice one that humanity could never anticipate, and never hope to counter. Humankind is being attacked by its own planet.Six decades after the departure of the gigantic, alien star-ship dubbed the 'Minaret', Joe Falcon thinks it is finally over, and he can settle down to a better, quieter life.He is wrong.At the outermost edge of the Solar System lurks an alien intelligence t...

A brave young woman in peril, but she doesn't really need anyone to rescue her.Echo Bourke, the sole survivor after a vicious alien attack on her colony world.Barbus Koll, a dangerous alien with an ego the size of a planet, matched only by his sheer incompetence.Pirates, betrayal, a world held is slavery, an exotic deadly disease and scientists held prisoner on an isolated moon where absolutely everything wants to kill you.All these and more await you in the...

They told him the Lette were monsters. But the truth lies buried on a dead world—and it's far more terrifying.Commander Zane Renner awakens alone aboard a vast, silent colony ship orbiting the planet Artemis. The crew is gone. The only others aboard are a woman driven to madness—and a Lette, one of the alien race humanity has been at war with for decades.Zane has always believed the Lette started the war. But when he descends to the surface and uncovers the...

Big Intel recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the CIA and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Marxist-influenced Deep State dysfunction as BIG INTEL became BAD INTEL.How the Left Subverted the CIA and FBIOnce upon a time, the FBI and the CIA fought America’s enemies at home and abroad. Now they are tools of a growing police state, attacking the left...

Political Loyalty and the Nation-State examines the gradual weakening of the state's ability to order the political allegiances of its subjects. At the focal centre of the book lies the question of the extent to which it is possible to invest political principles, such as the rules and procedures of democracy, with a sentiment of loyalty and whether political loyalty can become merely a matter of choice and personal responsibility. The authors consider theoretical issues, problems...

First published in 1986. This is a collection of editorial and articles covering military Marxist regimes in the African locations of the Horn of Africa, Benin, the People's Republic of Congo, Madagascar, and Burkina Faso.

This book addresses the nature of factionalism in parties that are created or rebuilt after a period of dictatorship. It maintains that, while party leaders often view factions in negative terms as divisive, factional behaviour can also be constructive. The volume brings together detailed case studies from post-authoritarian Spain, Greece and Portugal, from Turkey (where factionalism has hampered democratization) and from the post-communist states in Eastern Europe.

This book examines the fortunes of social democracy since 1989 in the former GDR, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, setting the analysis in a broader European framework, and relating the current problems of social democracy in western Europe to developments in the east of the continent.

This collection examines the escalation of the Kosovo conflict to a full-scale war. It looks at its origins, background and the implications of the conflict: the myths, history and perceptions of the post-1989 crisis and the situation after the start of NATOs 1999 bombing campaign.

Originally published in 1994, this volume analyses the relationship between political parties and trade unions in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. Political parties had high visibility in the changes that took place in Eastern Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s. Far less visible were the developments in the trade union sphere, where the old ‘mass organizations’ of the communist period, now independent, were joined by newly-formed organizations, and both play...

Originally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries. The first part of the book deals with cases of communist strength, where the communist part had close links with a particular trade union (France, Italy, Spain). The second part looks at cases where social democracy dominated the Left (Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK). Two further essays examine...