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... of their lives that they were pulled off this certain 'kill' to allow Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, to land unharmed in Scotland on his famous but still unexplained peace flight to Britain, six weeks before the Germans invaded Russia. Yet outside the pilots' log books there exists no official record of their mission. In post-war Communist Czechoslovakia, many ex-RAF pilots were picked by the STB secret police and jailed or drafted down the mines. Stories of their exploits could not be published. But Felix and Polda outlived the Communists regime and although Polda was killed in a civilian plane crash in the 1980s, both men were able to give interviews to the Prague ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-04.htm
202. Feedback [Lobster #37 (Summer 1999)]
... as she had succeeded in getting him a US visa, she was the common law wife of Arkadi Maslow (another pseudonym), her political associate. When the new German edition of Fischer's book Stalin and German Communism appeared some years ago, a number of reviewers made the point that she still saw herself as a socialist or even a communist, even after her high-profile 'anti-communist' ventures. Regarding Ignazio Silone, the Suddeutsche Zeitung (15 October 1998), citing an Italian periodical, reported that Silone was 'between 1928 and 1930, not just a leader of the CP in Italy, but a reliable collaborator of the fascist secret police OVRA'. I ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-26.htm
... under FBI surveillance.(20) During the 1960s, when the Bureau and the CIA mounted Operations COINTELPRO and CHAOS to infiltrate and disrupt black militant organizations and the Left, the Temple went out of its way to forge alliances with leaders of those same organizations: e.g . with the Black Panthers' Huey Newton and with the Communist Party's Angela Davis. Yet, despite these associations, and its ultra-left orientation, we are told that the Temple was not a target of investigation by either intelligence agency. In the early 1970s, suspicions began to surface in the press, implicating the Peoples Temple in an array of allegations including gun-running, drug- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-01.htm
... ' that would take hold of an increasingly active section of the American intellectual community, led in particular by philosopher Sidney Hook and the circle surrounding the literary journal Partisan Review (PR), was anti-Stalinism. Their leadership in this development had a lot to do with their disillusionment with the sterility of argument which had marked the American Communist Party in the 1930s, in particular its slavish adherence to every dictat from Moscow that marked every turn in the somersaulting Soviet foreign policy of that period. It was in these factional fights in the US Left that 'cultural freedom' was born, exemplified by Hook's formation of the Committee for Cultural Freedom among academics and literary intellectuals in 1939 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 101 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-03.htm
... an important meeting was held between Cabinet Secretary Norman Brook, Pat [Patrick] Dean representing the Foreign Office, the director of MI5, Mr (later Sir) Roger Hollis, and Norman Reddaway representing the IRD. At the end of it, Brook instructed Hollis to make available to the Foreign Office, with security collateral, intelligence about communist malpractices in the unions that could be used by IRD. This led, among other things, to the ousting of Foulkes and Haxell from the leadership of the electrical trade union. ' (p . 46) Several things worth noting here. If Mayhew is accurate, it is interesting to see that the Cabinet Secretary can instruct the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-14.htm
206. Feedback [Lobster #36 (Winter 1998/9)]
... commented: 'Far from attempting to debate with [the Mosleyites] Common Wealth was their main opponent particularly in Hackney and Stoke Newington, and over a number of weekends throughout the winter of 1947/8 denied the fascists the use of their prime site in Dalston Road, Hackney by 'booking' it through overnight vigils....the communists (CP variety) were nowhere to be seen, let alone members of the Hackney or Stoke Newington Labour parties...that Common Wealth was no more than a debating society was a slur by the Marxists who never forgave us for our rejection of 'scientific' socialism and the notion of 'democratic centralism'. From Laurens Otter: ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-21.htm
... . We were subsequently divorced in 1985. I had recently been involved in student politics as a member of the Labour Club, and was elected to the sabbatical post of Vice-President, a post from which I resigned and went back to my course. While living in Sheffield in 1977, I had been briefly a member of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Netherthorpe Branch. Pat had told me that Legg's job was positively vetted; consequently I asked her whether my political background was likely to raise any problems. She said that she thought not because both his parents and hers had been members of the CPGB in the thirties and this had caused no previous problems. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-04.htm
... almost equal efficiency' in 'most climates or countries'. The time was ripe for a turn to national economic planning, which would generate employment through the cultivation of home industries, urban renewal and agricultural protection.(7 ) 'National Self-Sufficiency' has itself been the victim of misunderstanding. It was not a flirtation with 'fascist or communist economics'.(8 ) It was not an aberration provoked by despair at the failure of the 1933 World Economic Conference to produce a co-ordinated global response to the Depression.(9 ) 'National Self-Sufficency' did not embrace the cause of complete economic isolationism. Both before and after the piece's completion Keynes was vigorously ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-10.htm
... and that the German gas-chambers had been designed to burn the corpses of Jews killed by British bombing.(5 ) The opposition forms A number of groups determined to oppose Mosley: individual Conservatives,(6 ) Liberals,(7 ) and members of the Labour Party;(8 ) left-wing organisations, including the Communist Party (CP),(9 ) Common Wealth,(10) the Socialist Party Of Great Britain (SPGB),(11) and the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP);(12) civil rights organisations, such as the National Council of Civil Liberties (NCCL);(13) and Jewish groups, notably ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 98 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-04.htm
... . He started out at Portland State, and was arrested for anti-Vietnam War protests. Then he lived in Oakland, California while the Black Panthers were active. Ace told stories about how he got into trouble for delivering guns to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua during the late 1970s. Once upon a time, the stories continued, the Communist Party invited him to join. But Ace turned them down 'because they were too conservative. ' Ace was bright and articulate, in a gruff sort of way. He had no tolerance for the well-turned subtleties of talking heads and conventional wise men. As a one-man information highway, he slew such pundits-of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-08.htm
