[…] Generation membership in its early days a decade ago. SDP activists Other SDP activists receiving early invitations to join the Successor Project were Sue Slipman, the former Communist president of the National Union of Students; Penny Cooper, an old Communist party and NUS colleague of Slipman’s who, like her, was a founder member of […]
[…] who theorised and rendered the process possible – in terms of a Gramscian war of position or construction of a hegemony – were former members of the Communist Party or members of the Demos think tank. Names like Peter Mandelson, Stuart Hall, Martin Kettle and Martin Jacques spring to mind immediately What particularly interests […]
[…] pieces of research by Desmond Fernandes on the European-wide oppression of the Kurds. The first is ‘United States and NATO inspired “psychological warfare operations” against the “Kurdish communist threat” in Turkey’, published in the Glasgow-based magazineVariant no. 12: www.ndirect.co.uk/~variant The second is a monograph,The Targeting and Criminalisation of Kurdish Asylum Seekers and Refugee Communities […]
Inside the League Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson (Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1986) This is the only book I know on the World Anti- Communist League. Most of it is new to me but the few bits I am familiar with look accurate, and it is reasonably well documented. It is […]
[…] extremely interesting and massively detailed account of the politics of the student movement before and during the early years of the Cold War. Centrally it shows how Communist Party members from various countries, under presumed if not illustrated Soviet control, created the World Federation of Democratic Youth and the International Union of Students; with […]
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
[…] their own side for the ‘crime’ of battle fatigue. Without this Liberal-Democratic Holocaust’ (which altogether cost 17 million lives) there would have been no Russian Revolution, no Communist International and no Stalinism. Nor would there have been the fascist regimes in Western Europe, which took power with the connivance of big business, and a […]
[…] almost anyone else..’ (p. 112) ‘He would have been the obvious choice removing communists from MI5 (p. 124) ‘There is another pointer to Hollis’s collusion with the Communist Party’ (p. 124) ‘Hollis also took the view, it seems‘ (p. 125) ‘Hollis would have known that there was already a file on Burgess…’ (p. 129) […]
[…] two bordering streets, and thus had two addresses: 531 Lafayette Street and 544 Camp Street. The building was part-rented by William Guy Bannister, a racist, violent anti- communist, and member of the John Birch Society. Bannister served in the FBI and had risen to be Special Agent-in-Charge of the Bureau’s Chicago office. After retiring […]
[…] he became Director of Mind in 1973, an anonymous document was circulated to some of the charity’s most eminent supporters alleging that Smythe was some kind of communist agent. I wrote to Mr Smythe who kindly supplied me with part of the document. The document looks like a pretty obvious bit of state (IRD?) […]
