Come the Revolution

A Memoir

By: Alex Mitchell

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Paperback | 1 November 2011

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In Come the Revolution, journalist Alex Mitchell gives a rollicking account of life in newspapers and his radical past as a Trotskyist. From the cut-throat era of Sydney tabloids, he graduated to Fleet Street as an investigative reporter, taking part in the exposure of Soviet double agent Kim Philby. Giving up his job to become editor of Britain's Trotskyist daily, he entered a world of class struggle politics and national liberation movements. With fellow revolutionary Vanessa Redgrave he travelled the US and the Middle East, meeting Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat and Muammar Gaddafi. Come the Revolution lays bare Mitchell's life and loves, his past and politics, with the flair of a born storyteller unafraid to ask hard questions about the world, and himself.

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Alex is interviewed by Phillip Adams here

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Author's note	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Prologue	p. xi

A cadet on the Townsville Bulletin	p. 3
Going outback: The Mount Isa Mail	p. 24
On Murdoch's Sydney paper	p. 45
View from the Canberra press gallery	p. 70
Waking up in swinging London	p. 91
Halcyon days at the Sunday Times	p. 107
Chance to be a war correspondent	p. 119
Exit from Thomson House	p. 139
Tales of Jerome D Hoffman	p. 159
The Man Who Stole Ugands	p. 117

Introduction to Leon Trotsky	p. 201
Life of the party	p. 220
The revival of Trotskyism	p. 243
The state within the state	p. 260
Police raid on the Red House	p. 278
How the GPU murdered Trotsky	p. 297
Opening doors to the Arab world	p. 322
High Court - high farce	p. 353
Comrades Vanessa and Corin	p. 366
Ambassador at large	p. 386
Faith, hope and charity	p. 407
The political fallout begins	p. 422
Breaking the faith	p. 437
The WRP implodes	p. 450
Decision time	p. 485
On reflection	p. 503
Notes	p. 518
Select bibliography	p. 524
Index	p. 527
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