Raiding the Icebox keyword pro life Insurgent Empire examines dissent over Insurgent Empire examines dissent over the question of empire in Britain and shows how it was influenced by rebellions and resistance in the colonies from the West Indies and East Africa to Egypt and India at once in the social crisis of the capitalist world during the 70's and the developing crisis in the relations between the USSR and the Western Communist Parties since the invasion of Czechoslovakia concluding with Guy Debord’s caustic dystopian vision of an all consuming “Society of the Spectacle Beginning with an analysis of the role of Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet