[…] seen in the movies. Even though the monetarist emphasis of the ERP led to considerable unemployment and an increase in poverty in the late 1940s, the Italian Communist Party was unable to translate considerable pressure for action from below into an anti-ERP campaign that could energise a large enough cross-section of the population. The […]
[…] British Right – scratching the surface There was a British representative at the first meeting in 1958 which eventually led to the formation of The World Anti- Communist League (WACL), a former trade union leader and Labour MP, George Dallas. (40) While serving in a minor capacity in the war-time coalition government, Dallas became […]
[…] in the field – doing spectacular things. And don’t believe those smears that he’s a ‘traitor’ to the land of his birth. He’s still a violently anti- Communist right-winger who firmly believes in Queen and country. He wrote Spycatcher for the simple reason that he and his wife were going broke – because those […]
[…] manner in which these conflicting structures contributed to Yugoslavia’s disintegration in the early nineties. He also scotches the notion, persistent on the right, that it was covert Communist influence within SOE (steered by James Klugman) that led the British to begin supporting Tito at the expense of Mihailovic: Tito was simply killing more Germans. […]
[…] suspect. In the war, he left Germany and was firstly in the Danish resistance and then the Norwegian. He was one of the leaders of a big communist network run by radio from Moscow. In the second half of the sixties, we broke most of the traffic between the communist resistance in the war […]
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
[…] TV ads. From the start it had particularly strong ties (through McDonald and Singlaub) with the Conservative Action Group and also (through Singlaub) with the World Anti- Communist League and its numerous affiliates. (11) In May 1985 Linda Guell came over to Britain to organise and launch Western Goals (UK). Paul Masson, then a […]
[…] of the introduction the author (or authors) states: ‘Its creation was prompted by the desire of Ministers in Mr Atlee’s Labour government to devise means to combat Communist propaganda’. But ten lines later we find this. ‘Within the Foreign Office…..IRD evolved from plans drawn up in 1946. It took some time, however, for officials […]
[…] agents. It seems unhelpful to me do do this and can, in fact, cause confusion and even help those wishing to lay false trails. The Comintern ( Communist International) was set up in March 1919, as the supposed successor to the Socialist International that had collapsed with the outbreak of war in August 1914, […]
The Enemy Within Seamus Milne Verso, London, 1994 Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party Francis Beckett John Murray, London,1995 Seamus Milne has written a very good book, an essential book. Investigative journalism in this country is very hard to do, and Milne deserves great praise for this achievement.(1) The […]
