by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 29 December 2023 Ten years after the UK overthrew the democratically elected government of British Guiana, it engineered a further, constitutional coup to ensure the same progressive leader, Cheddi Jagan, could not be elected again, declassified files show. By 1963, the UK colony of British Guiana was again faced with […]
Topic: British Guiana
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 10 October 2023 In October 1953 the UK overthrew a democratically-elected government in British Guiana. UK officials knew deposed leader Cheddi Jagan was benefiting the impoverished local population but acted to protect its business interests, declassified files show. In October 1953, Britain sent three warships and 700 troops to its […]
Documents British Guiana, 1961-3 (Mark Curtis files from National Archives) The Suspension of the British Guiana Constitution, 1953, Guyana.org Report of the British Guiana Constitutional Commission, 1954, Guyana.org British files on British Guiana, 1957-8, National Archives, KV2/3625 British files on British Guiana, 1958-64, Guyana.org Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-3, Volume XII Foreign […]
The ‘coup’ in British Guiana, 1963 By Mark Curtis An edited extract from Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses In 1953 Britain overthrew the democratically elected government in British Guiana, which was then a British colony given an element of self-government. The April 1953 elections had resulted in victory for the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) […]
The intervention in British Guiana, 1953 By Mark Curtis An edited extract from Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role on the World “To secure desired result some preparation of public opinion seems to be essential [sic]” (British delegation to the UN, 1953) In April 1953, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) under Cheddi Jagan won 18 […]
Britain complicit in the deaths of ten million people since 1945. Those are Unpeople – those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of Britain’s economic and political goals. Historian Mark Curtis pieces together the Blair government’s “public deception campaign” on Iraq and reveals government plans to increase “information operations” directed towards the […]
Britain’s Real Role in the World. In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain’s role in the world since 1945 and in the “war against terrorism” by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government’s foreign policy. Curtis argues that Britain is an “outlaw state”, often a violator of international […]