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Anti-socialist campaigns and operations in
the British Labour Movement since the War
By Robin Ramsay

An adaptation and massive compression of this pamphlet based on a talk given by Robin Ramsay to Labour Party branches in late 1996, can be found in the free article:
The influence of intelligence services on the British left.

  • Part 1 Clearing the ground: the unions, socialism and the state: Common Cause USA
    • After the war
    • The Trade Union Congress and the state
    • U.S. influence after the war
    • The Council on Foreign Relations
    • The Economic Co-operation Agency
    • The Office of Policy Coordination (OPC)
    • Labour Attachés
    • Post-war: private sector propoganda begins to regroup
    • The Information Research Department
    • IRD's genesis
    • The Freedom and Democracy Trust
    • Common Cause and IRIS
    • The AEU's 'club'
    • Common Cause
    • The British League for European Freedom
    • Common Cause USA
    • Common Cause UK
    • The Labour Party's intelligence-gathering
    • Common Cause splits - IRIS is formed
    • IRIS
    • IRIS activities to 1963
    • Catholic Action?

  • Part 2 The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the Campaign for Democratic Socialism and the CIA
    • The Congress for Cultural Freedom
    • Encounter
    • Socialist Commentary
    • The social democratic network
    • The end-of-ideology
    • The Campaign for Democractic Socialist (CDS)
    • In the unions
    • Using the party organisation
    • Partnership of the two wings
    • Social democractic centralism
    • Anti-communism as a profession: the Information Research Department
    • Last post among the bog wogs
    • The subversion hunters and the Social Democrats in the 1970s
    • The abolution of the proscription list
    • The Social Democratic Alliance (SDA)
    • And the AEU
    • Europe
    • A new social democratic party?
    • The Crozier operations
    • Forum World Features
    • ISC
    • Shield and the Pinay Circle
    • The Wilson plots
    • Private sector intelligence agencies?
    • The Union leaders and the spooks
    • Was there a 'communist threat'?
    • Orders from Moscow?
    • Moscow gold?
    • Secret Party members
    • The struggle for the AEU
    • The 1966 seaman's strike
    • MI5's role

  • Books and articles cited
  • Name index

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